July 12, 2026
DomainForge: Crawl Websites Directly into RAG-Ready Datasets
Most web scrapers dump noisy HTML. DomainForge crawls, cleans, dedupes, and chunks web pages on the fly, delivering RAG-ready datasets directly.
Journal
Dev Journal
Notes, learnings, and stories from the garden. Growing in public, one post at a time.
July 6, 2026
Getting Started with OpenOPC: Build an AI-Native One-Person Company
OpenOPC is an open-source Python framework that assembles a self-organizing team of AI agents around your goal. Covers install, Task Mode, Company Mode, and the Office UI.
June 17, 2026
Reproduce Before You Fix
How I learned the hard way that reproducing a bug is half the solution. A debugging story about restraint, process, and the discipline of sitting still before acting.
June 17, 2026
Building an Unobtrusive Tutorial UI in Godot 4 for a Game Jam Puzzle
How we used dynamic Godot tweens and signals to teach players Solstice Cipher's optical mechanics without breaking immersion.
June 6, 2026
How I Built a Native macOS System Monitor with SwiftUI
A deep dive into building SysMonitor, an open-source macOS system monitor. Learn how to implement menu bar tracking, custom glassmorphism, and background battery throttling in Swift.
May 14, 2026
Building Field-Ready Engineering Tools with Flutter: The Gas Flow Calculator Story
How we refined the Gas Flow Calculator for production, focusing on field-first UX, precision input steppers, and sleek floating navigation.
May 10, 2026
Building PocketBudget: From Idea to Play Store in One Sprint
The full story of building a local-first Android budget tracker — ideation, PRD, engineering sprint, Firebase removal, and Play Store submission. What worked, what didn't, and what we learned.
April 11, 2026
Getting Started with Kilo CLI
A practical guide to using Kilo CLI for agentic engineering—code, plan, and debug directly from your terminal.
April 8, 2026
Introducing BenihKode Dev Tools
A collection of CLI utilities built to make everyday development less tedious — from commit messages to secret scanning.
May 21, 2025
From Script to Tool: Building My Second CLI with Bun
How a simple automation script evolved into a proper CLI tool, and what I learned about tool-building, error handling, and the joy of shipping.
March 10, 2025
Finally, Async/Await Without Fear
Understanding async patterns in TypeScript changed how I think about concurrency.
February 28, 2025
CSS Grid Finally Clicked
After years of flexbox-only layouts, grid opened up a whole new dimension of design.
February 15, 2025
The Bug That Took 3 Days
A story about a sneaky timezone bug that taught me about debugging methodology.
January 20, 2025
Shipped My First NPM Package
How gitcommitgen went from a shell alias to a published npm package — and what I learned about open source along the way.
January 1, 2025
Planting BenihKode
Why I started this dev journal and what I hope to grow from it. The story of building a developer's garden from scratch.