I've been obsessed with computers and programming for as long as I can remember. As a kid I broke every machine I could get my hands on, just to see how it worked. But life had a different first draft for me: I'm a medical student in India. I never got to pursue computers professionally — so I build at night, between classes and clinics.

Omadock is a fluid, zero-CPU application dock for Omarchy Linux — wave magnification, live window preview tiles, app groups, multi-monitor docks. It's now on its way through the Omarchy plugin marketplace, and every release I ship is verified down to the byte: clean logs, zero idle CPU, root causes proven in compositor source before I claim a fix.

Yes — it's heavily vibe-coded with AI pair-programming tools ✨. Real passion, real help from AI, real engineering discipline on top. Omarchy itself is built for that agentic future; I'm living it.

What you don't see in the commit log:

• My laptop is a ThinkPad L14 Gen 2 — honestly the worst possible laptop for Linux. Its Realtek RTL8821AE WiFi card is one of the most notoriously Linux-hostile chipsets ever shipped: constant WiFi drops, flaky Bluetooth, a touchscreen that half-works. On top of that: sticky keyboard keys and a trackpad with a mind of its own. I write code on a keyboard that eats keystrokes.
• AI tooling costs real money I don't quite have. I built Omadock on Google Antigravity through Jio's free 18-month Gemini Pro offer — a gift that made AI-assisted coding possible at all. But the promotional tier's rate limits are notoriously bad (there's a literal bug thread about Jio-tier quota limits on Google's own forums), and as Omadock grew popular I kept getting locked out mid-project. So I moved to a Freebuff Starter subscription — ₹499 to start, borrowed from my mom 😅 — rising to ₹799/month, which I honestly can't keep affording on a student's nothing-budget.
• Money is always tight. That's just the truth.

I'm saving up for a Dell XPS 13 (2026) — the same XPS line DHH (Omarchy's creator) calls "the year of the Linux laptop". Modern Intel Wi-Fi, a keyboard that works, battery life that lasts through a ward shift.

Laptop fund:

Every supporter gets thanked on the supporters wall 💝

And the bigger dream, if I may say it out loud: to do work so useful to the Omarchy ecosystem that someday the Omacom Foundation — which funds the open source Omarchy stands on — counts me among the people it supports. 🙏

If Omadock makes your desktop a nicer place — or if this story just got you — sponsoring me on GitHub (monthly or one-time) would genuinely change things for me. Every donation goes to exactly two things: AI coding tokens that keep Omadock possible, and the laptop fund — and every cent stacks toward both.

To everyone who has donated or will: really, truly, thank you. You're helping a med student keep building. ❤️

— suva (@thepathless)