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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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Seth Wheeler3d ago • 9 min read
What a Hibernated Browser Tab Actually Costs
My simulated tab scheduler priced a hibernated tab at 32 KB; real WebKit charges 39 MB. It claimed 7...
#memory#swift#webkit#measurement
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Joey Arcisz4d ago • 4 min read
A Port Number Is Not an Identity
Earlier this week, I opened a small Mac app I had built for myself and found at least 12 local...
#swift#opensource#productivity#showdev
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Tetsuharu Fujiki9h ago • 5 min read
Dropping BadUSB Keystrokes on macOS Before They Open Spotlight
A Japanese version of this is on Note. A few weeks ago, I watched a demonstration of an OMG Cable.....
#macos#security#swift#hardware
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Tetsuharu Fujiki2d ago • 6 min read
I open-sourced part of my app, got scared, and fuzzed it before anyone else could
A Japanese version of this is on Zenn. The macOS app I build as a solo developer ships with a...
#security#swift#testing#opensource
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Alexandre Vazquez5d ago • 3 min read
Why I Built an Investment Tracker That Doesn't Connect to Your Broker
Every investment tracking app I tried wanted the same thing: my brokerage credentials. Plaid...
#showdev#ios#swift#privacy
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Amol Srivastava3d ago • 2 min read
iCloud Key-Value Store vs CloudKit: A Decision Guide for Solo iOS Developers
Every local-first iOS app eventually hits the same question: the user has the app on their phone and...
#swift#ios#cloudkit
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Tetsuharu Fujiki1d ago • 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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Deland18h ago • 6 min read
Every test passed and the level was unwinnable
I shipped a wilderness survival game with eight scenarios. The hardest one — a five-star map behind....
#swift#gamedev#testing#showdev
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David Build1d ago • 5 min read
The port that moved: how an auto-update broke a user's AI agent for three hours
A friend sent me two screenshots. His terminal was full of this: Hook error: POST...
#swift#ai#debugging#programming
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Brian Gan6d ago • 3 min read
Let AI Write the Mac OS App Without Learning Swift
AI keeps accelerating through the tech industry. Just like many other laid-off tech workers, I feel...
#ai#programming#swift#newbie
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Amol Srivastava4d ago • 2 min read
StoreKit 2 for Solo Developers: Subscription Patterns That Don't Need a Backend
Apple's StoreKit 2 examples tend to be written for teams that have a backend to validate receipts...
#swift#ios#storekit#indiedev
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Amol Srivastava5d ago • 3 min read
Building Home Screen Widgets Without a Backend: A WidgetKit Field Guide
WidgetKit is one of the more deceptively simple frameworks Apple ships. The sample code makes it loo...
#swift#ios#widgetkit#programmingcomma
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Uudg6d ago • 1 min read
Lightweight GitLab pipeline tracker in your Mac’s notch
Hey everyone! I juggle quite a few GitLab repos across my team, and honestly, constantly alt-tabbin...
#gitlab#swift#opensource#productivity
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Beny6d ago • 2 min read
What I Learned About Publishing an iPhone App on the App Store
Publishing an iPhone app isn't simply: Build → Upload → Published ❌ There is an entire review and....
#swift#ios#appstore#flutter
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Michael1d ago • 1 min read
I built CryptoHODL: a private iOS crypto portfolio tracker with no accounts and no cloud
Most crypto portfolio apps want an account, an email, exchange API keys, or a cloud sync you never.....
#ios#swift#showdev#privacy
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Kirill Lukyanov9h ago • 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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Reno Lu2d ago • 4 min read
The Memory Budget Came First: How TurboFieldfare Fits a 26B Model in 2 GB
TurboFieldfare sets a ~2 GB memory budget first and then rebuilds the Gemma 4 26B-A4B runtime, its p...
#swift#metal#llminference#localai
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divyesh vekariya3d ago • 1 min read
Swift Mastery Series — Part 10: Swift Enums
A Swift enum can be much more powerful than a simple list of cases. With associated values, an enum...
#swift#ios#mobile#programming
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Amol Srivastava6d ago • 3 min read
Building a Reliable Text-to-Speech Experience with AVSpeechSynthesizer
AVSpeechSynthesizer looks trivial from the API surface — instantiate an utterance, hand it to a...
#swift#ios#a11y#tutorial
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rahul bandal4d ago • 1 min read
SwiftLint and Code Quality for iOS Teams
Enhance your iOS team's code quality and consistency with SwiftLint. Learn to install, configure, an...
#swift#ios#development
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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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Kanon Fujita2d ago • 8 min read
[KMP] I Chose Kotlin Multiplatform for the UI. Sharing the Audio Engine Is What Saved Me.
I build an app called Afterfade on my own. You record seven five-second videos over the course of a....
#kmp#ios#android#swift
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