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Petrichor, a music player for macOS: https://petrichor.page/ This has been my work outside of work, which I spend most of my weekends on. It has gotten enough downloads (23k+) and …

Classic Holier-than-thou

While the browser support is not complete, styling the dropdown menu to match with Windows 98 should still be doable https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...…

I spent the last year building Petrichor, an offline music player for macOS. This is an essay on how the journey has been so far. I also shared it on HN last year [1], and the proj…

That's still the default state of Google Hardware. Just look at their out-of-warranty Pixel Watch repairs. And if you're not in North America (or EU), chances are very high that an…

Should've named it ZeroGravity to stay true to its design goals.

The thriving ecosystem of dynamic libraries that you could just link and create a Windows Vista-esque UI (AKA Aero) in an IDE built in 1998, thanks to Win32 API.

Perhaps something that Ternus can add to his legacy-building exercise, given that he led hardware.

I wish Google would launch Mac Mini-like devices running their consumer-grade TPUs for local inference. I get that they don't want it to eat into their GCP margins, but it would st…

The duopoly slowly turning into a monopoly won't be pretty.

Building offline music player for macOS for past one year https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor Currently working towards a big release to go out by end of the month.

That too would very likely be seen as deeply political.

Speecg-to-text is basically AI version of Todo app that we used to build every week when new frontend framework would release.

This looks interesting and I might give it a try. I did look at FSEvents in the past but due to my needs in macOS app, I took a very niche (and not so fast) approach of running fin…

Been working on Petrichor - native macOS music player [1] This has been my side project for nearly a year, and I also shared it here in HN when it was in alpha [2] and received a t…

Yes, the app got enough traction already to warrant for Homebrew and MacPorts distribution, so I'll try to incorporate both! Audiobooks support looks like a neat idea, I'll see if …

Smart playlists will be coming soon as I've done all the infra work to support it, in fact current default playlists that app has (Favourites, Top 25 Most Played, Top 25 Recently P…

No plans for iOS app in near future but once this one reaches a feature stability, I'll think about it, as the decision to use Swift & Swift UI was for sharing logic with iOS app i…

Winamp is OG, so why not both!

Right-click and select open as the app is currently signed using ad-hoc signing as Apple notarization costs money. :(

I started with only macOS 15 for starters, but I agree it might be possible to support even older versions so I'll check if this can be improved in future alpha or beta builds.

No there's no limit on number of songs but there's a bug where if any track's metadata violates db constraints, scanning doesn't go past it. I've fixed it already and will include …

Yes, iPhone is target once mac stable release is complete as the core logic can be shared between 2 platforms.

There you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor > Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.