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lzhgusapp

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About lzhgusapp

Indie Mac developer. Building native macOS utilities at https://www.awesomemacapp.com — MacQuit (quit all apps from menu bar) and ImageMini Pro (batch image compression).

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    Same — as someone building macOS utilities I have a soft spot for indie apps that tackle genuinely hard algorithmic problems and still manage to ship a clean UI. The gap between "t…

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    Nice writeup. I work on native macOS utilities and have dealt with file monitoring quite a bit. kqueue is reliable but the per-file descriptor requirement can get tricky when you n…

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    Love seeing niche Show HN projects like this. The choice of Fortran is wild but that's what makes it fun. As someone building small Mac utilities, I appreciate any project that pro…

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    macOS has its own share of UI quirks too. The volume slider is fine, but app management is surprisingly bad for a platform that prides itself on UX. There's still no native way to …

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    I switched to Ghostty a few months ago and it's become one of the apps I never close. The rendering speed is noticeably better than iTerm2, especially with large log outputs. Excit…