30,000 views. 5 features shipped. 1 project I keep avoiding.
Monday's post exploded — "Most developers never ship an .exe," 30k views, 51 reactions. A stranger ran a full security audit on my .exe and became a tester after everything came back clean. But Friday doesn't care about Monday. Friday cares about code.
Shipped this week
- Startup Manager — reads from 3 Windows registry hives, rates 30 programs by boot impact. Nothing gets removed without your confirmation.
- Services Manager — 40+ services in 4 tiers (Essential locked, Recommended, Optional, Unnecessary), with TURBO integration: pick which services auto-stop when you need performance and auto-restore when you don't.
- v1.7.2 .exe released — Sigstore signed, VirusTotal 0/70, CodeQL clean.
- hck_GPT upgrade — better intent detection, smarter explanations, fully offline, no API.
- My PC Central — redesigned layout and navigation.
- GuideAI subpages and payment gateway — pushed. Again.
Scarred: one hour fighting
IsUserAnAdmin() so the Services Manager doesn't silently fail for non-admin users — the kind of detail nobody notices until it's missing. And GuideAI is the project I keep avoiding. OAuth works; what's left is the premium tier, payment gateway and Claude API. Not months of work — maybe a weekend. But I keep choosing PC Workman because shipping new features feels better than finishing hard ones. That stops next week.
Next week: Umiejętności Jutra 3.0 starts — Google's AI certification through SGH. PC Workman's TURBO suite continues.
If you had a fully offline AI inside your system monitor — no cloud, no API key — what would you ask it? Every question helps me build better intent detection.
This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor
with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code.
Download it or read the source.