FIELD NOTES. FROM THE WORKSHOP.
Long-form writing on the software we ship at EagerHQ. Technical deep dives on the open source projects, marketing stories on the products, and the occasional note on how the studio is built.
Voxlit Under the Hood: How We Built a Voice-First AI Agent for macOS
A full engineering breakdown of Voxlit. CoreML hotword detection, streaming STT over WebSocket, the tool-enabled agent, and the Go cloud backend that ties it together.
Patchbay: Browser-to-Browser Audio in 800 Lines of Code
A WebRTC deep dive. How Patchbay ships peer-to-peer audio with Cloudflare Durable Objects for signaling, AudioWorklet for zero-jank routing, and lossless PCM for musicians.
Webnite: Why Story-Driven Learning Beats Flashcards for the Security+ Exam
Security+ prep is dry. Webnite fixes that with a medieval knight, a pixel-art kingdom, and a curriculum built for the modern cloud-and-zero-trust era. Here is the pitch and the proof.
Building Agentic AI That Actually Ships: Patterns From the EagerHQ Workshop
Most agentic AI demos never leave the notebook. Here are the patterns we use at EagerHQ to take autonomous systems from prototype to production, from tool design to fallback logic.
On-Device Hotword Detection on macOS With CoreML: A Practical Guide
How to ship a private, battery-friendly wake-word detector on macOS. Data collection, a compact CNN, CoreML conversion, AVAudioEngine plumbing, and the gotchas nobody warns you about.
How We Ship at EagerHQ: Sharp Scope, Honest Defaults, No Marketing Calendar
The operating principles behind every EagerHQ release. Why we cut features until the pitch fits in one sentence, why defaults matter more than settings, and why we only ship when the software is good.
Why Open Source Dev Tools Win: The Case for Inspectable Software
Tools that sit close to your voice, your keyboard, or your audio deserve to be readable. A short argument for why EagerHQ open-sources the plumbing and sells the product.