About this episode
The episode explores Tiny Tool Town, a hub for tiny developer utilities, and discusses building a Mac toolbar screen-capture app.
On this episode we dive into Tiny Tool Town — a GeoCities‑style app hub for tiny developer utilities — and James walks us through building Tiny Clips, a Mac toolbar screen‑capture app he prototyped and shipped using Copilot, agentic workflows, and a plan‑implement‑review cycle. Expect practical takeaways on multi‑model AI pipelines (planning with 5.2, coding with Codex/Opus), CI/publishing tips, sandboxing/TestFlight pitfalls, and why tiny apps are booming. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter , Facebook , Website , Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm Support Merge Conflict Links: Tiny Tool Town Tiny Clips
People in this episode
Host: James
Topics covered
- developer utilities
- screen-capture app
- AI pipelines
- CI/publishing tips
- tiny apps
Keywords
- Tiny Tool Town
- Tiny Clips
- screen-capture
- Copilot
- AI pipelines
- CI tips
- sandboxing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GeoCities, Copilot, TestFlight, Adventureface
Products: Tiny Clips
Books & works: Amethyst Seer - Citrine
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