Vibe coding a native macOS app to edit my blog
I have an awesome new editor for my website. It’s a native macOS SwiftUI app that I can boot up on my Mac and write and edit posts. I don’t know Swift. And I don’t know the SwiftUI API. To me this is the perfect candidate for blind vibe coding. It’s a totally offline, unsupported app that improves my quality of life and inspires me to write, because it feels… well, it just feels good.
It’s not perfect. And I have lots of ideas for improvements. It will just keep
getting better and better. If you’re interested, you can look at the source
in the macos/BlogAdmin folder of the repo for this site.
I’ve been using the OpenAI Codex CLI for my personal projects, and I find it roughly equivalent in features and quality to Amazon’s Kiro CLI that is provided to me at work, which uses the Anthropic models. I think I prefer Codex just a hair; it does a better job understanding my poor job of explaining what I want it to do, and asks more clarifying questions if my instructions are too vague.