#selfware — Public Fediverse posts

Sometimes you need a custom app for your personal needs.
Thanks to AI coding agents like #antigravity, you can easily implement your own software.

I built my own little text editor!

Someone coined a term for that: #selfware

https://glaforge.dev/posts/2026/07/16/selfware-building-my-own-text-editor-without-knowing-swift/

Sometimes you need a custom app for your personal needs.
Thanks to AI coding agents like #antigravity, you can easily implement your own software.

I built my own little text editor!

Someone coined a term for that: #selfware

https://glaforge.dev/posts/2026/07/16/selfware-building-my-own-text-editor-without-knowing-swift/

The current state of software, by Bob the Builder:

Bob knows that when you need to build a house you have choice. You can:

1. Buy a prefab home off the shelf (SaaS, shrinkwrap)
2. Take a picture of someone else's house and copy it (React,Rails)
3. Buy some shipping containers and weld them together (OSS)
4. Go down to the scrapyard and pick up all the detritus from the maker fare and go Bohemian (Rust)
5. Build from bare metal (Good luck)

As the cascade descends, the complexity of the components converges. At the same time, the possibility proliferates. An inverse relationship proportional to desire for reliability or fit.

Bob knows what to do.

Bob says call a builder.

Be like Bob

Call a builder, all the best ones want to help you build too.

#building #sdlc #ai #makerfaire #lassezfaire #selfware #wanderland