lzhgusapp

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   by lzhgusapp 5mo ago

   Same — as someone building macOS utilities I have a soft spot for indie apps that tackle genuinely hard algorithmic problems and still manage to ship a clean UI. The gap between "technically interesting" and "actually usable
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   by lzhgusapp 6mo ago

   Nice writeup. I work on native macOS utilities and have dealt with file monitoring quite a bit. kqueue is reliable but the per-file descriptor requirement can get tricky when you need to watch large directory trees. For anyone looking at th
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   by lzhgusapp 6mo ago

   Love seeing niche Show HN projects like this. The choice of Fortran is wild but that's what makes it fun. As someone building small Mac utilities, I appreciate any project that proves you don't need a massive stack to ship somethi
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   by lzhgusapp 6mo ago

   macOS has its own share of UI quirks too. The volume slider is fine, but app management is surprisingly bad for a platform that prides itself on UX. There's still no native way to quit all apps at once, and Activity Monitor feels stuck
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   by lzhgusapp 6mo ago

   I switched to Ghostty a few months ago and it's become one of the apps I never close. The rendering speed is noticeably better than iTerm2, especially with large log outputs. Excited to see libghostty enabling projects like this — the