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Technical writing from the team behind Thunder Kitty — local-first architecture, macOS audio capture, and the realities of building indie software.
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Three Models, Zero API Calls: Real-Time Meeting Intelligence on Apple Silicon
— 2026-06-14
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Thunder Kitty's Labs features run topic segmentation and agenda tracking live, entirely on-device — and getting a sentence-embedding model onto the Neural Engine took seven attempts and a fight with a silent CoreML bug.
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2,000 Buffers of Nothing
— 2026-05-24
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What I learned about macOS audio capture that I couldn't find written down anywhere — Core Audio taps, silent TCC denials, and an Info.plist key Xcode ignores.