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   by alin23 4y ago

   Coincidentally, I also stumbled upon a way to make the kernel of Apple Silicon Macs panic and restart while developing the https://lowtechguys.com website. I distilled the problem in a repo so it can be reproduced with a single
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Yabai ( https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai ) with SIP disabled is the only way to do that nowadays. I personally gave up on Spaces completely because of this. Now I just have everything on a single space, and move thro
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Users of my monitor control app ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) feel overwhelmed with the information I provide on the website and in little help hints placed in the app near each setting. If an app has this effect, I can't even
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   by alin23 4y ago

   There’s another runtime policy in the kernel that overrides the user policy for various reasons. That’s what the author is talking about. For example you can force a process to run on efficiency cores by using the background QoS, but you ha
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Also check out jqp (jq REPL) for when you need a few tries to get the right jq selector: https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp Looks a bit like fzf combined with jq.
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Maybe try it before jumping to conclusions? In that specific case a lazy container is slower because the views are visible at all times so non-lazy views can render immediately without any boundary checks.
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Well, it's not @Binding that's slow, it's the fact that it's not immutable like @State, so on each `body` call, the binding's `get()` function has to be called again.
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   by alin23 4y ago

   Author here! You probably just don’t have the same need as me, I was expecting this to not be a popular app because of this :) My need is to be able to check when I’ll be able to visit parents, plan trips with friends, answer my wife about
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   by alin23 4y ago

   drawingGroup is exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! I didn’t know this was added to SwiftUI.
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    by alin23 4y ago

    They’re all about improving dev experience, and after all, there’s a large dev audience here wanting to write less and produce more.
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Thanks! ^_^
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Author here! My best selling app Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) is done in AppKit with Storyboards and it’s a pain to maintain (source here: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar ). So much that I finally created
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Author here! Aside from Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) all my apps over at https://lowtechguys.com/ are 100% SwiftUI. In my extensive experience, this is the only major disadvantage I found: UIs with hundreds o
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    SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

    9 points by alin23 4y ago|0 comments
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Most often it's a hardware limitation because the cables/adapters use the MCDP2900 converter chip inside, even when they advertise HDMI2.1 support. That's the same chip inside the built-in HDMI port of the new MacBook Pro and
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Just a note that there's a whole app called rcmd for switching apps using the Right Command key: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd I'm the developer and have the same exact use case: viewing one window at a time on a s
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    by alin23 4y ago

    The App Store version was just approved, so I'm leaving 10 promo codes below: 9JKR9RJKK9PM EHPK3F97T3KK NMEMEP3LW6XN 94W34RNXA9MH F33HFRM7XMXW LX3JNTTTWMMR 7YFHWATHL7H4 AY4J9LJ6HYN6 4WLHEM74RR7N
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Hi everyone! After the app review fiasco [0] with Sub Sol [1] (which was an app I made to help fund my brother's college costs) , I decided to do another try with a macOS app that was on my mind for a while. So here's Grila, a ca
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    Show HN: Grila – Calendar for keyboard addicts, always one keypress away(lowtechguys.com)

    4 points by alin23 4y ago|2 comments
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Thanks! I only learn by building small ideas and looking into the Apple documentation through Dash ( https://kapeli.com/dash ) and searching "how to do X" on Google. So I can't recommend material from first-han
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    by alin23 4y ago

    I can but: - in-app purchases come with more disadvantages than a one-time purchase (harder to implement, more UI and explaining needed, restoring purchases is a confusing thing) - I don't want ads in my products - there&
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    by alin23 4y ago

    I spend very little time advertising them. Maybe 3 times a week I get an email with a relevant keyword mentioned on HN or Reddit, and in 2 of those cases I spend a few minutes writing a concise comment. About 3 times a year I do promos on T
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    by alin23 4y ago

    That's a really good product for businesses, yes. They need a web presence as most are just stores and catalogs. A mobile app is a good complement to that. What I'm building and noticing on other macOS developers are system utilit
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    by alin23 4y ago

    For the first 3 years, Lunar was my only app, and it was completely free and not on the App Store. I just had a one page website with the app UI screenshot and a download link. Since the app was free, I didn't seek out users too much.
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Mostly links in comments and word of mouth :) see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621814
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    by alin23 4y ago

    I usually open source free apps, that I don't think I'll ever be able to sell because "who else could have the same problem as me?" If it turns out that people have a need and want to pay for Pro features, I try my bes
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Thank you! I think that might be because Safari uses the HEVC version of the video. I'm also seeing 25% usage on an M1 Max MacBook, which is more than I expected. Firefox and Chrome don't have noticeable CPU usage. They only suppo
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Huh, I had no idea that function would ever be useful :) I guess you never know. Thanks!
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    by alin23 4y ago

    For non-AppStore apps like Lunar, I use the macOS SDK from Paddle.com. It provides trials, license activation UI, payments and checkout UI, both in-app and on web. Here's how I use it: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas&#x2F
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    by alin23 4y ago

    Thank you! The app is still awaiting approval from App Store, it will be available in every country soon. You can use the trial build until then :)