Devlog #1 — Vox: push-to-talk dictation

Started Vox: free, open-source, bring-your-own-key dictation. Hold a hotkey, speak, release — cleaned-up text pastes at your cursor. Tauri + Rust, with an LLM pass that polishes the raw transcript.

Funniest bug so far: dictate “do you want to go with a race” → Vox types “I don’t identify with a particular race.” The transcript went to the LLM as a plain chat message, so it answered dictated questions instead of transcribing them. Fixed by wrapping the transcript in <transcript> tags and adding a hard rule: never answer, only clean up. Tested against a local llama3.2 — 4/4 trap inputs now transcribe correctly.

Also wrestled the release CI: macOS builds needed a 10.15+ deployment target for whisper.cpp, Windows ARM doesn’t build upstream yet (dropped it).

Shipped v0.2.2: Linux, Windows, macOS.