{"id":2650,"date":"2026-06-05T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:18:21","slug":"lil-finder-guy-pet-was-the-gateway-to-building-my-own-mac-apps-with-codex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/lil-finder-guy-pet-was-the-gateway-to-building-my-own-mac-apps-with-codex\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Finder Guy pet was the gateway to building my own Mac apps with Codex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lil-finder-guy-codex-pet.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the start of May, OpenAI released a playful feature inside its Codex desktop app for creating a virtual pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This silly little addition solved my biggest challenge with Codex: what should I do with it? My first real task with Codex was putting together a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/05\/01\/i-think-i-just-vibe-coded-lil-finder-guy-onto-my-mac\/\">virtual Lil Finder Guy<\/a> for fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A month later, I\u2019m using two Mac apps that Codex built at my direction. Toying around with Codex Pets was the gateway for me to better understand its capabilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of May, OpenAI released a playful feature inside its Codex desktop app for creating a ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}