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DmitryAug 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Your agent didn't fail. You closed the lid
SleepSwitch is a macOS menu bar toggle that stops your Mac from sleeping — lid closed included. One....
#macos#ai#swift#opensource
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Seth WheelerAug 29, 2026 • 8 min read
Predicting the Speed of a 276B Model Streamed From an SSD
A from-config cost model for streaming a mixture-of-experts model off an SSD, validated byte-for-byt...
#llm#measurement#macos#ssd
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Tetsuharu FujikiSep 2, 2026 • 6 min read
macOS is LEGO. Linux is Minecraft. Notes from building the same app in both.
A Japanese version of this is on Note. Building an app for a Mac is like LEGO. The box comes full....
#linux#macos#programming#security
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LilyAug 31, 2026 • 24 min read
8 Runs a Day Became 3: Building a launchd plist Integrity Guard in 73 Lines
At 12:04 on August 23, 2026, something quietly rewrote my outreach DM schedule down to three runs a....
#macos#automation#bash#python
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LilySep 1, 2026 • 23 min read
The Morning My cron Jobs Went Silent: A 97-Line Script That Migrated Everything to launchd
Six months after being laid off, I'd rebuilt my income from zero to ¥1.2M/month on an autonomous...
#automation#macos#launchd#shell
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Tetsuharu FujikiAug 29, 2026 • 6 min read
Nobody searches for security apps. So I made mine a tool for AI agents instead.
A Japanese version of this is on Note. (This is Part 2 of the solo-security-dev series. Part 1 on th...
#security#ai#indiehackers#macos
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Kirill LukyanovAug 31, 2026 • 7 min read
I embedded an MCP server inside my macOS app so agents could talk back
App Sandbox forbids spawning child processes, so I inverted the protocol: the app runs its own MCP s...
#macos#swift#mcp#ai
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Tetsuharu FujikiAug 30, 2026 • 5 min read
How I Used an Uncensored Local LLM for Adversarial QA on My macOS App
When you build a security app as a solo developer, the hardest engineering problem isn't writing the...
#macos#security#testing#ai
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Tetsuharu FujikiAug 31, 2026 • 5 min read
Dropping BadUSB Keystrokes on macOS Before They Open Spotlight
A few weeks ago, I watched a demonstration of an OMG Cable attacking a Mac. If you haven't seen on...
#macos#security#swift#hardware
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Paris MoschovakosSep 2, 2026 • 3 min read
What's actually inside Apple Mail's Envelope Index
Apple Mail keeps a full SQLite database of your mailbox metadata. It sits...
#mcp#macos#sqlite#python
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K M Shahriar HossainSep 2, 2026 • 7 min read
Running Apple's On-Device AI From Flutter, With No API Key and No Server
Apple ships a language model, an image generator and a room scanner on the device. What each can do ...
#flutter#ios#macos#ai
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Tetsuharu FujikiAug 30, 2026 • 5 min read
Hacking My Own Mac App: Penetration Testing macOS Defense Boundaries in a VM
A Japanese version of this is on Zenn. I build and sell a macOS network-security menu bar app calle...
#security#macos#virtualization#swift
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LilyAug 29, 2026 • 21 min read
8 Pitfalls I Hit Auto-Repairing 'Plugin directory does not exist' — and the 3-Layer Guard That Stopped a 22 8 Wipeout
Liquid syntax error: Unknown tag 'endraw'
#automation#bash#macos#devops
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LilySep 3, 2026 • 21 min read
My Outreach Schedule Got Rewritten to 2:31 AM Without Me: Building a launchd Guard That Self-Heals in Under 10 Minutes
Six months after a layoff left me with zero take-home pay, I had built an autonomous Claude Code...
#automation#macos#bash#devops
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LilyAug 29, 2026 • 6 min read
A launchd Job That Fires Once on Deprecation Day, Then Deletes Itself — and the 4 Pitfalls I Hit
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, "Automating a config migration with a one-shot launchd job."...
#launchd#macos#automation#bash
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Tetsuharu FujikiAug 30, 2026 • 5 min read
The Hidden Security Blind Spots in Local AI Workflows
A Japanese version of this is on Note. An increasing number of engineers and creators are running.....
#ai#macos#security#llm
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LilyAug 29, 2026 • 24 min read
Editing the plist Changed Nothing: launchd Kept Running My Old 30s Timeout Until 31 Lines of Bash Fixed It
I'm Lily. I made ¥100k/month in college, pushed it to ¥600k/month juggling multiple side gigs, lost....
#launchd#macos#bash#automation
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pielouNWSep 1, 2026 • 7 min read
On-Device AI for iOS & macOS
In this Swift tutorial, you'll learn how to run a large language model (LLM) directly on a user's...
#ai#swift#macos#ios
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Vishwas PrakashSep 2, 2026 • 5 min read
You don't need a remote desktop for the room you're standing in
Someone plugs in the HDMI cable. The room's display shows nothing, or shows 1024×768, or shows the.....
#opensource#productivity#showdev#macos
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Scot GardnerSep 3, 2026 • 1 min read
Staying Organized as a Solo Dev: A Lesson from the Road
As a solo developer building and maintaining small, useful tools like Trial Guard, I've learned to.....
#indiehackers#macos#productivity
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Tomas GallucciAug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Why Sweating the Details Matter: Flask, port 5000, localhost, Safari and macOS
Pop quiz: Suppose you are developing a Flask app. Flask uses port 5000 as its default port. Now...
#macos#networking#browser
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Konstantin LäuferSep 3, 2026 • 2 min read
My fish shell AI setup on macOS
I installed the fish shell and fisher plugin manager through the malt package manager client (you ca...
#fishshell#cli#macos
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junianAug 29, 2026 • 2 min read
How to Delete All OpenCode Sessions
A simple way to delete all OpenCode sessions using a one-line terminal command
#opencode#macos#terminal
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RobustTrueTrySep 1, 2026 • 4 min read
Running Local LLMs on Mac Mini: What Actually Breaks
A practitioner's notes on memory, thermals, and context length when the Mac Mini becomes your AI box...
#ai#python#macos#beginners
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