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by alin23 15d ago
Believe me I tried that. I tried giving concrete examples, I edit a 50 line changelog and tell it to learn the style and write another changelog for another app similar to it, I built a whole system on a Vale linter detecting these claudis
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by alin23 15d ago
Makes sense. Then maybe we would need a separate simpler LLM trained on UI copy and good UX to decide this stuff and let frontier models do the implementation. But who has both the compute power and the motivation to do such a thing? I gues
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by alin23 15d ago
My main gripe with LLMs is the cringe AI phrasings that they use in UI elements. Pompous things like "Your keys, supercharged" or weird yoda-speak stuff like "searches the app remembers" instead of just naming the th
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by alin23 1mo ago
I was just working on a music improv app for the MacBook trackpad [1] and tried to use Sonic Pi 4 for the backing track (muse) generator but it was too clunky to run a full fledged second GUI alongside the app and control it through OSC. I
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by alin23 2mo ago
We don’t have static IPs at home in Romania. A restart of the router will just give that person another public IP and they won’t notice any repercussions.
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by alin23 3mo ago
Dev here, thanks! Although it's a pretty well known source in the macOS apps community (lowtechguys.com) with source code available right on the front page ( https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy ) and the code d
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I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers(leblancfg.com)
89 points by alin23 5mo ago|75 comments
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by alin23 5mo ago
Wait, so.. how are we supposed to test Intel builds of our macOS apps from now on? I get it that macOS has to evolve, but that doesn't mean all apps have to drop Intel support at the same time. On hardware-level apps like my Lunar app
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by alin23 5mo ago
Hook this to a lid angle below 30° trigger in https://lowtechguys.com/crank and you can easily make it run on a simple lowering of the lid
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Dictating Literal Reminders to My Apple Watch(mjtsai.com)
1 points by alin23 5mo ago|0 comments
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Hello, Liquid Fox (A Nice macOS Firefox Theme)(miloszfalinski.com)
2 points by alin23 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alin23 5mo ago
Not sure if it's exactly the same, but I had to add a When notification arrives with <message>, do <action> event trigger in my Crank macOS app ( https://lowtechguys.com/crank ) so I can show you how to do
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by alin23 6mo ago
Right, it’s not worth $30/month all year for me because I don’t use it past demo videos for when I publish a new app or large update. Which happens rarely. But if I was that kind of user who did demos monthly, the time saved on one or
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by alin23 6mo ago
A lot of the time it is, I agree. I would love the ability to do more highlighting and less panning. But in a small 700px wide video, zooming is kind of necessary to make it clear where the action is coming from. Because the app window is
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by alin23 6mo ago
For me it would make more sense to have something like “unlock for a week” if the dev wants to keep the ongoing revenue model. Of course a lifetime purchase is even better, not sure why that’s not an option. I would be happy to pay $100 for
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by alin23 6mo ago
Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money? The recent video I did for Cling for example ( https://lowtechguys.com/cling ) I’ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the ri
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by alin23 6mo ago
They even have a scrolling 5-star reviews section, clearly generated: https://oneuptime.com/#reviews-title https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/commit/538e40c4ae724e... https://g
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by alin23 6mo ago
The notch hiding menubar icons is such a stupid problem to have. I waste hours every week trying to help people who send me frustrated emails because they bought one of my apps and they say: "it doesn't launch" or "why d
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Show HN: Cling 2.0 – fuzzy find any file in less than 50ms on macOS(github.com)
1 points by alin23 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alin23 6mo ago
Thank you for the kind words! Love to hear from people that were helped by my work! That was also my pain point with Lunar, working on a small balcony in a small apartment where the light from the window was constantly changing and the moni
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by alin23 6mo ago
There are some things that are only available in Shortcuts because Apple gave the app entitlements to communicate with parts of the system that an AppleScript or other apps can't. Things like setting/getting the Focus Mode, changi
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by alin23 6mo ago
You can definitely have Claude work with cherri files. Jelly was a confusing experience for me, with JellyCuts becoming closed source and focusing on advertising, then Open-Jellycore branching out but not actually keeping up with the latest
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by alin23 6mo ago
I've just used this extensively to build 200 Shortcuts for my event-based automation app on macOS [0], because some actions you simply can't do without Shortcuts: changing Focus Mode, toggling Accessibility functions like Color Fi
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We got a heat pump (at last)(positech.co.uk)
2 points by alin23 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alin23 6mo ago
It could, but there's no possibility to apply a LUT to a realtime framebuffer on macOS. But it would have been a clever solution if it was possible.
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by alin23 6mo ago
It's still possible with the older forced HDR + Gamma tone-mapping logic, but it has its limitations. The native unlocking was miles better.
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by alin23 6mo ago
Does everything need to be snark on HN now? What is happening with this place? Those are valid problems affecting real people. For some are just missing conveniences, for others they are full on accessibility issues.
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by alin23 6mo ago
macOS 26 has to be the most breaking version so far, its problems and intended breaking changes making my app dev life so hard this year. Just to name a few: - Reference Presets no longer allow setting arbitrary SDR nits, making it impossib
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How good is Claude, really?(alinpanaitiu.com)
4 points by alin23 7mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Fn-p to Picture-in-Picture any macOS window(lowtechguys.com)
1 points by alin23 7mo ago|0 comments

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