The Microsoft Store Forced Me to Face My 6,533-Line Monolith

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A solo dev, a plastic-welding day job, and the cleanup that a Microsoft Store

listing forced on a script that had quietly become real software.

I Had a 6,533-Line Python File. Then My App Hit the Microsoft Store.

That evening is PC Workman, a Windows system monitor with an offline AI assistant built in.

It started as a small script to watch my own overheating PC, because I could not afford to keep guessing why it throttled, and I could not afford to be wrong about it either. A while later it has a thermal model that learns the norm of my specific machine instead of an averaged spec sheet, an assistant that answers in Polish or English from live sensor data, and a listing on the Microsoft Store.

It runs fully local:no account, no cloud, nothing about your machine ever leaves it. That part matters to me...

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