Warsaw, Poland · Open to work
From warehouse night shifts to shipping a local-AI system monitor
that 41,000 people read about on LinkedIn.
18 months. No investors. No shortcuts.
// about
core/monitor.py — psutil, 1-second ticks. The machine lived.22 years old. Self-taught. Order picker by day (Żabka, night shifts), programmer when I got home. PC Workman started as a way to understand why my aging laptop was throttling. It became 18 months of obsession.
800+ hours of raw grind. No bootcamp. No team. The architecture, the AI engine, the SQLite pipeline, the WinAPI calls — all figured out from docs, source code, and error messages at 2 AM.
The program has a feature called Ghost Driver Detection because I noticed Windows silently keeps old GPU drivers after you swap cards. I got annoyed, opened the pnputil docs, and wrote the fix. That's how most features happened.
HCK_Labs is not a company. It's a one-man lab. Everything is open-source. Everything is transparent. Build in public means showing the disasters too — the git --force that lost 130 commits, the CP852 encoding bug that broke the power plan system, the System Idle Process spamming alerts for 21 hours straight. All documented. All shipped. All fixed.
// main project
Free, open-source Windows system monitor with a local AI assistant, TURBO optimization suite, and hardware tools none of the competitors have. 100% offline. No telemetry. No installer required.
PC_Workman v1.7.8/ ├── core/ │ ├── thermal_baseline.py # Welford's alg · 5 workload buckets · JSON persist │ └── voltage_analyzer.py # Median+MAD · Nelson rules 1/2/3/5 · anomaly decay ├── ui/components/ │ └── interactive_chart.py # pan / zoom / click-pin / minimap / baseline band ├── hck_gpt/ │ ├── hybrid_engine.py # confidence ≥ 0.65 → rule engine; else → Ollama LLM │ ├── responses/builder.py # 5600+ lines, 70+ _resp_* handlers │ └── memory/proactive_monitor.py # _check_voltage_rails() · voltage_spike / voltage_trend alerts ├── hck_stats_engine/ │ └── db_manager.py # WAL-mode SQLite, thread-local connections └── ui/pages/first_setup_drivers.py ├── _get_pnp_connected_names() # pnputil /connected → physically present HW only └── _check_ghost() # registry entry NOT in connected set = ghost
// what I actually built with
// build in public series
Three weekly posts. 9 editions each. Real commits, real failures, real numbers — not a dev diary, a public record of how software actually gets built.
// content reach
// connect
Junior/mid Python roles, local AI, system tooling, open-source. Or just want to talk about the grind — easy to reach.