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Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any …

I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge…

Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint…

And I just discovered there's a group in Seattle called XCoders ( https://xcoders.org/ ), I'll drop in on their social next week and maybe learn more about the Swift/Apple ecosyste…

Honestly Swift is a pleasure to read. I love the guard statements and the enum values starting with a dot.

Thanks, yep comes in at 3 MB. It's all Swift and Metal. I'm a web developer by trade, done that at a high level for 20 years including Amazon, Google, other big tech, but this was …

We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be…

I quit my engineering job at Apple in 2023 to buy an aluminum Olson-Grumman step van, and start a mobile knife sharpening business, in Seattle. burlyburr.com Each knife takes maybe…

Got my first in app purchase for my first Mac app, a photoshop like image editor with layers and blend modes and a pretty retro look and feel. $8 in revenue so far! https://mojavep…

Not vibe coded exactly, but certainly AI assisted: https://mojavepaint.app

I always thought the old Date is kind of elegant... increment anything with an overflow and it all wraps around correctly, like `d.setDate(d.getDate() + 100)` to advance a date 100…

I got my app in the Mac App Store! It's a layer based image editor, which as a developer has been a nerd's paradise to develop. How should disparate blend modes work with "merge do…

Sure, but at least on Node 22 I think I have to pass `--env-file=.env` option to make it pick up .env.

Claude did write me a simple wrapper so I can keep using tagged template literals in the same way with Node.

I just spent a couple hours migrating my knife sharpening website backend from Bun to Node. Feels good to avoid that lock-in. I was initially gung-ho for Bun but increasingly unsur…

Location: Seattle Remote: maybe Willing to relocated: No Technologies: web frontend, JS, CSS, Svelte, Swift Resume: ex-Google, ex-Amazon, see linkedin.com/in/jpsimons Email: coolcu…

I'm getting pretty darn close to doing a "Show HN" about my new macOS paint app, called Mojave Paint. I just posted a feature tour video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FJ2xzU…

I'm building a macOS image editor -- no AI here, just Metal textures, compositing, blend modes, all that mathematical raster goodness. It's getting closer to a Mac App Store releas…

Thanks! I'm hand drawing all the icons which is slow going, but I'm drawing them in Mojave Paint. Nothing better than eating your own dogfood.

I'm building an image editor for macOS. Don't really like Affinity or GIMP so thought I'd go ahead and make my own. https://skullrocksoftware.com

I keep hoping someone will release a nice monitor that’s monitor shaped (16:10) instead of TV shaped (16:9). That’s part of why early 2000s Cinema Displays are so great. Not to men…

I was describing to Claude a SwiftUI panel layout and it responded with an ASCII diagram confirming what I want. This could allow that type of communication to go both ways?

It's like Obamacare -- deeply flawed but hey at least they're trying to do something.

If only we had the original 1909 copyright laws, this would be public domain by 2022!

They lost me at "css-loader". How about just import your components and they style themselves? The whole philosophy of React is JS-first and really, JS-only.