Developer builds a personal desktop control panel with Claude Code
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Developer Bluestein shared that he used Claude Code to build a single-file full-stack web app, with-my-dashboards (WMD), using it as a control panel for his entire desktop to restructure his personal digital workflow. The app's general core has been open-sourced on GitHub, so others can build their own versions based on it.
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The author describes building with-my-dashboards (WMD), a single-file full-stack web app that acts as a control panel for their desktop, opening browser tabs, dashboards, logs and documents across workspaces. They explain how Claude Code drives a real Chrome via the Chrome DevTools Protocol for tasks like drafting Gmail and Slack messages, shopping on bot-blocking sites, and sending pages to a TV through a phone remote called tvremote. The post also covers runbooks stepped through with cmdq, a five-button deploy panel for a polyrepo point-of-sale system, and closes with notes on evolutionary agent workflows in samizdat and simmis.
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