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Dusan Malusev5d ago • 6 min read
Why I Built an SSH Config and Tunnel Manager for macOS
Every internal tool I need sits behind SSH. Grafana, Prometheus, the staging clusters, internal AI.....
#ssh#macos#swift#tunneling
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Dmitry3d ago • 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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Erik HillAug 22, 2026 • 4 min read
Five Wrong Root Causes, and the Fifth Was in the Post
I wrote most of a post about how a failing system's logs seduce you into confident wrong root causes...
#macos#debugging#wine#testing
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Lily5d ago • 22 min read
5 Days of Silent Failures: A launchd Locale Bug That Was Hiding in 5 Repos
Everyone has met the bug that only shows up in production. This one was its exact mirror image: it.....
#bash#automation#macos#debugging
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Paris Moschovakos4d ago • 5 min read
One SQLite query took Apple Mail automation from 10s to 0.1ms
I run my work email through an AI assistant. The mailbox is a CERN mailbox, 298,986 messages across....
#sqlite#macos#applescript#showdev
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LilianAug 22, 2026 • 6 min read
Shipping a Python desktop app to real users: everything that breaks after PyInstaller succeeds
I built a desktop app in Python (PySide6 + MediaPipe + ONNX, ~33k lines) and shipped it to real beta...
#python#macos#windows#devops
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LilyAug 24, 2026 • 24 min read
Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned
My conversation logs are gone by morning. My environment, meanwhile, wakes up smarter than it went t...
#automation#ai#macos#productivity
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LilyAug 24, 2026 • 22 min read
Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts
Every night my Mac quietly rewrites my long-term memory. Not metaphorically — a shell script drains....
#automation#bash#macos#claude
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Vinh Nguyen6d ago • 3 min read
A LaunchAgent gets `Operation not permitted` for `~/Documents` while Terminal works
The same zsh script could list ~/Documents when I ran it in Terminal. Started as a LaunchAgent, it.....
#macos#devops#automation#programming
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Lily3d ago • 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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LilyAug 24, 2026 • 20 min read
I Was Burning $1.20 a Night on Nothing: A Claude Code Skill Library That Harvests and Curates Itself
Going from ¥100k/month as a student to ¥1.2M/month wasn't a matter of working harder. It was a matte...
#automation#claude#shell#macos
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Lily5d ago • 24 min read
Why My Nightly Ingest Stalled for 3 Days — and How Splitting One Task Into Sub-Steps Fixed It
I went from ¥100k/month as a university student, to ¥600k/month juggling multiple gigs, to exactly.....
#automation#bash#macos#claudecode
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LilyAug 23, 2026 • 21 min read
6 Hours, 15 Jobs, Zero Alerts: A Circuit Breaker for Claude Code's Weekly Quota
Nothing crashed. Nothing paged me. The 15 LaunchAgent jobs behind my ¥1.2M/month autonomous stack hi...
#automation#python#macos#claude
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Yash5d ago • 2 min read
Why I built an "anti-bloat" floating workspace for macOS using Tauri and Rust
Hey DEV community! 👋 Like many of you, I spend most of my day in deep work—writing code, debugging...
#ai#macos#productivity#showdev
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DevLog5d ago • 2 min read
Local LLM vs Cloud API: My Mac Mini Cost Crossover
The Problem I run an automated content pipeline (blog + YouTube Shorts) on a Mac mini with 48GB of.....
#ai#llm#macos
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LilyAug 22, 2026 • 22 min read
The 4,000-Token Tax: Auto-Disabling Claude Code Plugins You Haven't Touched in 30 Days
Hitting ¥1.2M/month taught me something I didn't expect: keeping the environment healthy has to come...
#automation#claudecode#bash#macos
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Tomas Gallucci3d ago • 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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Scot GardnerAug 24, 2026 • 2 min read
Staying Organized as a Solo Developer: A Lesson Learned
As a solo developer building small, useful tools like Tab Reminder, I've learned that staying...
#indiehackers#macos#productivity
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Kirill LukyanovAug 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Why Your Eyes Burn by Evening: Digital Eye Strain and the 20-20-20 Rule
Why screens strain your eyes more than books, why the 20-20-20 rule works, and why I ended up buildi...
#productivity#health#macos#webdev
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Scot Gardner4d ago • 2 min read
Leveraging Popular Tags for Smoother Deployments with ShipDrop
As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I realized that optimizing my...
#indiehackers#macos#productivity
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Dmitry3d ago • 4 min read
I built a macOS app that bricks your Mac for 30 seconds so you can clean it
You know the moment. You grab a microfiber cloth, drag it across the MacBook, and the screen fills.....
#macos#swift#opensource#showdev
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4thwithmeAug 23, 2026 • 6 min read
My dev setup
Karabiner remaps that skip the guesswork, zsh + Warp with zero multiplexers, three editors plus Clau...
#macos#productivity#neovim#cli
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Andrew4d ago • 4 min read
Why Developers Are Ditching Logitech Options+ for the Rust-Powered OpenLogi
In early 2026, a simple expired developer certificate sent shockwaves through the Logitech ecosystem...
#rust#linux#macos#opensource
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Lightning Developer5d ago • 4 min read
Mastering Local LLM Hosting on Apple Silicon with oMLX and Secure Remote Access
Unleashing the Power of Local LLMs on Apple Silicon For developers working on macOS, the...
#llm#macos#ai#devops
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