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by alin23 2y ago
Ok, so glad to hear that from you directly! Thank you for all the value you’ve put out there for free! About the codebase part, I don’t have any need for it so I’m not affected by this, but I wonder if it was possible to keep the current st
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by alin23 2y ago
Damn, I use Sourcegraph so much for my reverse engineering efforts on macOS. They index all those private framework symbols that people extract on every macOS release, and allow searching for headers and even how they are called by other de
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Show HN: IsThereNet, a macOS app for stress-free working on train rides(github.com)
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by alin23 2y ago
This is great! Just yesterday I was looking for a way to get a daylight 5500k white balance on videos the same way I do in Halide but it seems there’s no way to do that in the built in camera app. I know you can “lock white balance” but it
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by alin23 2y ago
Love this thing! It enabled me to add a “Convert to GIF” for videos in my Clop app ( https://lowtechguys.com/clop ) in just a few lines of code. The GIF gets encoded at its optimal size by default so I didn’t have to do a sec
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by alin23 2y ago
Author here! Don't worry, I'm well aware that what I can create currently can't be sold :) what I can currently do is like an MVP in wood, I cut a lot of corners (literally) just to see the thing done, and live with the defec
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Woodworking as an Escape from the Absurdity of Software(alinpanaitiu.com)
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by alin23 2y ago
I don't have a solution for the windows/dock/menubar not behaving correctly (which is why I've only been using my MacBook 14inch screen after my monitor died a year ago). But my Lunar app ( https://lunar.fyi&#x
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by alin23 2y ago
For sure, it’s just a bit more effort to reverse the app binary and find that part of the code. Enough effort to deter most crackers apparently.
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by alin23 2y ago
Yes, I was referring to the fact that I do a manual code sign check in my own code. Otherwise, Gatekeeper will be happy to run any cracker-signed app, they even found ways to staple forged notarization tickets. Manual code sign checks can o
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by alin23 2y ago
It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.al
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by alin23 2y ago
In theory, yes Lunar should be able to do that, both on Mac and Hackintosh. But it depends on the hardware if it allows it, some hubs/GPUs/monitors might block the DDC command. Anyway Lunar has a free offering, you can try it easi
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by alin23 2y ago
Author here, all monitor vendors are guilty of the same serial problem. It’s not present on all models, and most have transitioned to writing the Alphanumeric Serial Number in the last 2 years, which is thankfully unique. The firmware crash
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by alin23 2y ago
Yes, but most monitors disable writes to them. Some monitors have service menus that can enable that but it’s increasingly rare to see that. I thought about simply writing a random serial number to one of the monitors as the solution, sadly
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by alin23 2y ago
Lunar dev here, thank you so much for this! As the dev, I see the app as very fragile because of the dozens of emails per week I get, each describing a different very specific issue. It’s good to hear the app is actually stable and useful f
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by alin23 3y ago
Looks like I’m doing something similar without being aware of it. My latest free macOS app IsThereNet [1] is really just a swift file bundled as an app. But it got a lot more press than I expected and brought enough users for my Clop app [2
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by alin23 3y ago
I do this too, I write scripts, and one-file apps that solve issues that only I think I have. Like I've been running an InternetReachable.swift [1] manually at the CLI for months to have a nice visualization of when my internet conne
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by alin23 3y ago
All I can say is: you’d complain the same if you’d live in this country and be yelled at by every state employee just because you had the audacity to ask them a question, and by every doctor because you got suddenly ill and so on. Only brib
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by alin23 3y ago
Wow, everything sounds terrifyingly similar to Romania. I guess we’ll soon see and participate in some widespread protests in Europe, I don’t see a better way to wake up the officials
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by alin23 3y ago
Thank you for stopping by to say this! So glad you like Clop ^_^
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by alin23 3y ago
Indeed, I can take days and sometimes even weeks off fixing things in Lunar, those hours do add up. I still spend a significant amount of those days answering support emails and Discord chats though, there’s just so much an FAQ can help in
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by alin23 3y ago
Bonkers it is yet it’s true. The house prices are a joke right now here. I don’t know what drives such prices, 95% of Romanians will never be able to afford a €200k house with 50sqm of paved courtyard in front. Supply and demand my ass… Bel
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by alin23 3y ago
Offense seems to be the only thing you do around here. I know I’m privileged, I work with unprivileged people to help them get better sometimes and that is probably the best way to feel how much inequality there is between us. Having a lot
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by alin23 3y ago
Mostly, more work put into implementing features requested by users and fixing bugs reported by them, that’s what got me the most money. Some might say that spending more time on marketing is what gets more money, and that’s a bit true. But
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by alin23 3y ago
I was tasked with packaging an app so that it would run as a root LaunchDaemon. So a bit of launchd config work, a bit of pkg install scripts, weird workarounds in code for having the “daemon app” run in the login session of any user. It ne
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by alin23 3y ago
Yeah, nothing can protect your heart from the inevitable 1-star review that makes you want to punch that human through your screen. Thankfully, my best selling apps are published on my website, where I don’t have reviews. I have a contact f
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by alin23 3y ago
If I want to build a feature that I know would need a lot of work so I’d like to make it paid, I note it down. That’s it, I just leave it there, and focus on getting the app launched as free first. After the launch, feedback will guide you
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by alin23 3y ago
Yes, it’s a lot of money in Romania. I could live very comfortably if that would continue being the case. If I had my own place. My “not bad” remark is because I still can’t afford housing with all the money I make. I’ve been living in rent
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by alin23 3y ago
Not really, that was a wild extrapolation on my part. But I did have at least 2 other companies waiting for me to be available on other projects, so in my specific case it would have been possible to continue working like that for the full
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by alin23 3y ago
I definitely feel your pain. I get flashbacks of interminable weeks of work where a bug that’s clearly not caused by my code is suddenly affecting a number of users. Reverse engineering skills have greatly improved the way I develop things

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