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JavaScript, webdev

Schedule WhatsApp Messages with wacli Mission Control

Send later, finally

You’re deep in a terminal-based workflow, firing off messages with wacli, and then it hits you: you need to send this at 9am, not right now. So you either wait around, or you lose the moment. Every other headless messaging tool leaves you stuck with that choice.

Not anymore.
Scheduled sends are the headline feature of wacli Mission Control — and honestly, the reason I built it.

The gap it fills

If you’re a developer, power user, or sysadmin, you’ve probably felt the friction of modern desktop messaging apps: memory-hungry, closed to automation, and standing between you and your own data.

CLI tools like wacli solve that — speed, privacy, SQLite storage, full-text search, all from the terminal. But once you’re juggling a dozen active threads, rich media, emoji reactions, and scheduled replies, raw terminal output stops scaling.

So I built a UI for wacli (wacli-ui): a lightweight, high-density, local-first web console for people who want terminal-grade speed and privacy with a UI that doesn’t get in the way — including a proper interface for the send-later queue that started this whole thing.

Why

Most third-party messaging integrations fall into one of two traps:

  1. Cloud-hosted relays that compromise end-to-end privacy by transmitting authentication tokens and message history through remote third-party servers.
  2. Fragile web scrapers that consume gigabytes of RAM and break every time a web layout updates.

wacli Mission Control takes a completely different path:

  • 100% Local-First & Private: Binds exclusively to 127.0.0.1. No external tracking, no cloud telemetry, no proxy relays.
  • Powered by Local SQLite & FTS5: Queries your messages instantly using SQLite’s Full-Text Search index.
  • Safe by Default: Starts in read-only mode with explicit two-step mutation guardrails to prevent accidental dispatches.
  • Zero-Polling Realtime Stream: Uses a supervised background daemon with an HMAC-SHA256 verified webhook listener and real-time WebSockets.
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AI, Chrome, webdev

Transforming Recipe Chaos with SeasonApp

Some projects start with ambition.

This one started with annoyance.

I was tired of juggling recipes across bookmarks, screenshots, messages, and the occasional scribble in a notes app.
A normal person would’ve organized things.
I opened Cursor.

The plan was simple: a quick weekend hack.
Nothing serious. Just a tiny tool to help me stop losing recipes.

But then it worked. And I liked using it.
Then I showed it to a couple of friends.
Then my family started using it.
Then those friends shared it with their friends.

That’s when the “weekend hack” quietly transformed into SeasonApp—a small but mighty full-stack platform for cooking, powered by AI and built to remove friction from the kitchen.

Why SeasonApp Exists

If you cook regularly, your digital life eventually turns into a disorganized pantry. Tabs everywhere. Screenshots mixed with flight confirmations. Recipe blogs where you scroll past a childhood memoir before finding the ingredient list. And once you finally want to cook something, you can’t find the right recipe—or you’re missing one ingredient and the whole plan collapses.

SeasonApp brings order to that chaos.

It gives recipes a home.
It helps you create new ones.
And it actually understands what you want to do with whatever’s in your fridge.

The more people around me used it, the more obvious the need felt.
Everyone had the same pain; they just tolerated it.
SeasonApp gives them a better way.

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Business

Speeding Up Node & ReactJS Build Times

Speeding up Node or React build times on an EC2 instance involves optimizing your build process, leveraging the instance’s resources efficiently, and potentially tweaking your environment. Below are practical steps to reduce build times:

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