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Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by lijogdfljk »

Farraige wrote: post #60
ScottFree wrote: post #24

Anything by Rogue Amoeba. I'm not sure there's anything "clever" about the design they choose for their apps. They're nice to interact with, they do the obvious thing and they're well engineered (rarely crash, don't have memory leaks, etc). https://rogueamoeba.com Reeder 2. The one thing it had that other RSS apps didn't have is collapsable columns. Accounts was the leftmost column. When you selected an account, it w…

Tried AppZapper, it asked for access to my contacts and crashed when I denied.

Yea, it's a shame - I was excited but I don't see why it needs my contacts. Appreciate your comment.

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Post by jackcodes »

Farraige wrote: post #60
ScottFree wrote: post #24

Anything by Rogue Amoeba. I'm not sure there's anything "clever" about the design they choose for their apps. They're nice to interact with, they do the obvious thing and they're well engineered (rarely crash, don't have memory leaks, etc). https://rogueamoeba.com Reeder 2. The one thing it had that other RSS apps didn't have is collapsable columns. Accounts was the leftmost column. When you selected an account, it w…

Tried AppZapper, it asked for access to my contacts and crashed when I denied.

I’ve been using AppCleaner for a number of years.

https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by stuxnet79 »

cschmidt wrote: post #10

I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done. https://kapeli.com/dash

Zeal on Linux (https://zealdocs.org) provides the same functionality and is really polished as well.

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Post by kaiwen1 »

ScottFree wrote: post #24

Anything by Rogue Amoeba. I'm not sure there's anything "clever" about the design they choose for their apps. They're nice to interact with, they do the obvious thing and they're well engineered (rarely crash, don't have memory leaks, etc). https://rogueamoeba.com Reeder 2. The one thing it had that other RSS apps didn't have is collapsable columns. Accounts was the leftmost column. When you selected an account, it w…

Quicksilver is still very much alive and still works wonderfully, even on Catalina. I use it all day, every day.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by EnderMB »

lijogdfljk wrote: post #120
EnderMB wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to claim requests together with such an easy to use interface is fantastic. My only real gripe with Paw is that the default save mechanic produces a binary file. If you're providing paw files as documentation in a repo, this makes concurrent branches a pain because there's no ability to merge changes. Unless I'm missing something? It's been a while since I've used it in anger.

This is a huge complaint for me with most of these HTTP clients. I don't get why Git/VCS workflow is not considered in these applications. Imo, it needs to be first class.

This is the reason I still use Postman.

It's got a nice interface for throwing some HTTP requests around, but compared to the likes of Paw it's a pain in the ass to set up an API spec. Regardless, the ability to merge these files is too essential to use anything else.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by ScottFree »

jackcodes wrote: post #122
Farraige wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried AppZapper, it asked for access to my contacts and crashed when I denied.

I’ve been using AppCleaner for a number of years. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

Good call. AppCleaner is better than AppZapper in almost every way. I used AppCleaner to delete AppZapper. :D

Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by lijogdfljk »

EnderMB wrote: post #127
lijogdfljk wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a huge complaint for me with most of these HTTP clients. I don't get why Git/VCS workflow is not considered in these applications. Imo, it needs to be first class.

This is the reason I still use Postman. It's got a nice interface for throwing some HTTP requests around, but compared to the likes of Paw it's a pain in the ass to set up an API spec. Regardless, the ability to merge these files is too essential to use anything else.

Does Postman support this with Git? Last I saw with my team no one knew how. Only thing Postman seemed to have was a Cloud Sync and Merge junk, no one knew how to make it work with the git repo.

Thoughts?

Note that Paw has this type of cloud sync too, though I'm not sure how it handles merges.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

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Post by EnderMB »

lijogdfljk wrote: post #129
EnderMB wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the reason I still use Postman. It's got a nice interface for throwing some HTTP requests around, but compared to the likes of Paw it's a pain in the ass to set up an API spec. Regardless, the ability to merge these files is too essential to use anything else.

Does Postman support this with Git? Last I saw with my team no one knew how. Only thing Postman seemed to have was a Cloud Sync and Merge junk, no one knew how to make it work with the git repo. Thoughts? Note that Paw has this type of cloud sync too, though I'm not sure how it handles merges.

It's been a while since I've had to do it, but I'm pretty sure that all you need to do is build a collection of your endpoints, and right-click -> export. This will save it as a JSON file, and while it's not pretty, it's importable and allows you to merge.
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