Zero to MVP

Finally, the Qwen 3.8-27B model will be released next week! 

I think this will be a significant step forward for local models. But of course, we will only know for sure after the release and testing : )

x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084100707423289643

2 days ago | [YT] | 35

Zero to MVP

🎉 Kivarion 0.8.1 is here — my first public release!

Kivarion is a fast, private desktop password manager for KeePass `.kdbx` files. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking — your vault stays on your machine, and only you hold the keys. 🔐

What you get:

🔑 Full KeePass support — open, edit & create `.kdbx` vaults
👆 Touch ID unlock on macOS
💾 Safe auto-save with atomic writes + backups
⏱️ Auto-lock & auto-clearing clipboard
📎 Attachments with Quick Look

Built with security by design: the app's UI has zero direct filesystem access, and macOS builds are signed & notarized.

📺 Here's a video on why I decided to build my own password manager — https://youtu.be/FOmuucZ4dfE

Download it now and give it a try. Feedback and feature requests are very welcome — drop them in the comments!

👉 github.com/w512/Kivarion/releases

#Kivarion #PasswordManager #KeePass #OpenSource #macOS #Privacy

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 26

Zero to MVP

🚀 Texodus 4.2.0 is here — your files are safer, your workflow is faster 🔒⚡

Texodus is a free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS, Linux, and Windows (born out of one of my AI model tests). Highlights of this major release:

💾 Auto-save — flip it on and forget Cmd+S exists. External file changes are picked up too.

⚡ Quick Open — Cmd/Ctrl+P fuzzy-finds any note in your workspace.

🗂 Tabs that remember — your session is restored on launch; already-open files jump to their tab instead of making a twin.

🎨 Smarter preview — only the block you're editing redraws (no flicker, Mermaid diagrams keep their zoom), and code blocks get real syntax highlighting for 30+ languages.

🔒 Filesystem lockdown — the big one. Texodus can only touch files and folders you open; ~/.ssh, ~/.aws and Keychain are off-limits, period. 🛡️

Plus clickable local links in the preview, PDF export with embedded images, an honest word count, and more.

👉 Download: github.com/w512/Texodus/releases/tag/v4.2.0

Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests very welcome 🙌

1 month ago | [YT] | 30

Zero to MVP

🚀 Texodus 3.2.1 is here — find anything, browse your folders, and play with your diagrams 🔍🌳

Quick reminder: Texodus is a free, cross-platform, open-source Markdown editor (macOS, Linux, Windows) that was born out of one of my AI model tests. This is a big jump since the last public release. Here's what's new:

🔍 Find in document — hit `Cmd/Ctrl+F` (or the new 🔎 toolbar button) and a full-width search bar drops in. It works in every layout and highlights matches in both the editor and the live preview at once — with next/previous, a match counter, and case / whole-word / regex toggles. Don't like the highlight color? Pick your own in Settings. 🎨

🌳 Workspace & folder tree (experimental) — open a folder and browse your notes from a sidebar: create, rename, delete, drag-and-drop, and reveal files in your OS file manager. It even remembers your last workspace between launches.
⚠️ Heads up: the folder tree and everything around it is experimental for now — expect a few rough edges, and be gentle with important folders.

📊 Interactive Mermaid diagrams — zoom, pan, and copy any diagram as SVG or PNG right in the preview (and they still render into your HTML and PDF exports).

📜 Smoother scroll sync — no more jitter when one pane follows the other in Split view. Want it extra buttery? There's an optional easing mode in Settings.

🔤 More typography control — separate editor and preview fonts (including your installed system fonts), font size, and line height.

🪟 Open With from your OS now lands in a tab when you're in tabs mode, instead of always spawning a new window.

🔒 Plus a hardened security policy under the hood, a fixed version readout in the About window, and the usual round of stability fixes.

👉 Download 3.2.1 for macOS, Linux, and Windows:
github.com/w512/Texodus/releases/tag/v3.2.1

As always — feedback, bug reports, and feature requests very welcome. 🙌

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1 month ago | [YT] | 36

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I launched AI Vault: an awesome-style list for developers building with AI or learning AI engineering.

It includes tools and resources for:
- LLM apps
- AI agents
- coding assistants
- RAG/search
- local models
- evals/LLMOps
- machine learning foundations

I’m trying to keep the list useful, not turn it into a graveyard of random links.

GitHub: github.com/w512/AI-Vault

Stars, PRs, and tool recommendations are very welcome.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 18

Zero to MVP

📬 Heads up — tomorrow (Saturday) the new issue of Zero to MVP Weekly goes out.

It's the newsletter version of this channel: one AI signal, one tool, one MVP idea — five minutes, every Saturday. No hype, no 47-link dumps. Just what's actually worth your time as a builder.

Subscribe before tomorrow so it lands in your inbox 👇
weekly.blokhin.us/

1 month ago | [YT] | 10

Zero to MVP

I started a newsletter. 📬

It's called Zero to MVP Weekly — the email version of what I do on this channel, filtered down to what actually matters for builders.

Every Saturday, one short email:
→ one AI signal worth understanding
→ one tool worth trying
→ one MVP idea you could actually build

No link dumps. No hype. ~5 minutes. Free.

If you'd rather build with AI than just read about it, this one's for you.

Subscribe → weekly.blokhin.us/

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 10

Zero to MVP

The United States government has banned the use of Anthropic’s new Fable 5 model.

I think you have probably already read this news. Although formally the ban applies to the use of the model by non-U.S. citizens, they clearly understood that enforcing such requirements is impossible in practice for intangible things. So in reality, this is effectively a ban on using the model.

I think Altman and OpenAI may have had something to do with this, but that is just my speculation.

On the one hand, nothing terrible has happened — after all, we somehow managed to live without Fable 5 just a week ago. But on the other hand, this clearly demonstrates why it is always worth having several local models as a backup, because access to cloud models can be restricted at any moment.

What do you think about this? Will such restrictions become a regular practice in the future, or is this just a one-time event or mistake?

1 month ago | [YT] | 14

Zero to MVP

Yesterday Anthropic unexpectedly released a new version of their most powerful model, Opus 4.8. I haven't tested it in detail yet, and I'm interested in your opinion, what do you think about it?

2 months ago | [YT] | 2

Zero to MVP

📝 Texodus v1 is out — and this one is a big quality-of-life jump 🚀

Just a reminder that this is a free, cross-platform, open-source Markdown document editor that was born out of one of my AI model tests.

✨ I ripped out the plain textarea and dropped in CodeMirror 6. What you get:
1) Live markdown syntax highlighting as you type
2) Smart list continuation — Enter inside a list keeps the bullets and numbers going. Empty line? It bails you out.
3) Auto-closing brackets, quotes, and ** markers
4) Multi-cursor with Alt+Click

📜 Scroll sync between editor and preview no longer lies to you on long docs with images and diagrams — the same line stays at the top of both panes, no drift.

🐛 Also fixed: that annoying macOS bug where double-clicking a .md from Finder opened two windows. Just one now. As intended. ✅

⚡ Under the hood: ~660 lines of code-quality refactoring, a tighter Rust window-management layer, and the whole frontend is now TypeScript end-to-end.

🔗 Download v1 on the releases page (available for macOS, Linux, and Windows):
github.com/w512/Texodus/releases/tag/v1.0.1

As always — feedback, bug reports, and feature requests very welcome.

2 months ago | [YT] | 48