A local short-form video pipeline

Most “turn your footage into a short” tools are cloud SaaS: you upload your raw clips, a server transcribes and renders them, and you pay per minute. I wanted the opposite, a pipeline that lives entirely on my own machine, uses only open-source tooling, captures only what I tell it to, and never sends a frame anywhere. This is that pipeline. It takes raw recorded footage and produces a finished vertical short-form video framed correctly for TikTok or Instagram Reels, with word-level captions burned in and platform-aware layout. macOS / Apple Silicon, no cloud, no paid APIs, driven from a single CLI over an input folder. ...

May 27, 2026
The webhook-notify Mac app showing a listener's notification rules and a live macOS notification preview

webhook-notify — Turn any webhook into a native macOS notification

webhook-notify turns inbound webhooks into native macOS notifications. You get a stable public URL to point any webhook at, and each request that arrives pops up as a clean Mac notification — formatted exactly how you want, with per-listener rules for the title and body. It’s the missing piece between “some service fires a webhook” and “I actually see it on my Mac” — no browser tab to babysit, no Slack channel to mute, no curl loop. Just a hosted receiver and a lightweight menu-bar app. ...

May 24, 2026