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Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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If you want to use your native window manager, why don’t you just disable tabs and have every link open a new browser window?

On MacOS that would be an amazing poor UX, cmd+tab works on Applications, not specific windows. Switching windows within the same Application is cmd+` ; and only works on the current workspace.

I agree it would be a poor experience, but macOS does have an additional shortcut key for switching between windows: Command–Grave accent (`)

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On MacOS that would be an amazing poor UX, cmd+tab works on Applications, not specific windows. Switching windows within the same Application is cmd+` ; and only works on the current workspace.

I agree it would be a poor experience, but macOS does have an additional shortcut key for switching between windows: Command–Grave accent (`)

did…

did I not mention that?

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Congrats on shipping! Two things, does anyone else feel like 2017 was not 9 years ago and rather feels like it was just yesterday? I use a 2017 iMac running MacOS 13.7.8. It appears my hardware will not support any newer version of MacOS. For the most part, I haven't been too discouraged by this as I prefer older MacOS designs over the newer ones. However, this is the second time in 2 days I've actually hit a wall in…

Hey there! What OS version are you using? This app should run on Mac os 14 and later.

I'm interested in what part of the design is limiting your app to macOS 14?

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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post #64

Congrats on shipping! Two things, does anyone else feel like 2017 was not 9 years ago and rather feels like it was just yesterday? I use a 2017 iMac running MacOS 13.7.8. It appears my hardware will not support any newer version of MacOS. For the most part, I haven't been too discouraged by this as I prefer older MacOS designs over the newer ones. However, this is the second time in 2 days I've actually hit a wall in…

In case you weren't aware: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

macOS Big Sur and newer on machines as old as 2007

macOS Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma and Sequoia

Personally I'm hapy with my old macOS in no small part thanks to https://www.macports.org

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to use your native window manager, why don’t you just disable tabs and have every link open a new browser window?

On MacOS that would be an amazing poor UX, cmd+tab works on Applications, not specific windows. Switching windows within the same Application is cmd+` ; and only works on the current workspace.

What about using AltTab?

https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Having built crossplatform native app supporting MacOS app, I have never gotten notarization to work as I'm not using xcode a lot.

I'm curious, how much does it cost? Is it per build or a subscription? How do you make it work financially for an open-source project?

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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post #126

Having built crossplatform native app supporting MacOS app, I have never gotten notarization to work as I'm not using xcode a lot. I'm curious, how much does it cost? Is it per build or a subscription? How do you make it work financially for an open-source project?

You just need an Apple Developer account ($99/year), which you likely already have if you're distributing apps. Notarization itself has no per-build cost — you can notarize as many builds as you want. The process is essentially: codesign your app, zip it up, submit it to Apple's notary service via xcrun notarytool, and staple the ticket. It can be automated in CI too — this project uses a GitHub Actions workflow for it. The $99/year is really the only cost, and that's for the developer account itself, not notarization specifically.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Could you add comment navigation features? I want to read all top level comments first and be able to down-arrow through them, and right-arrow to expand one level.

Definitely, looking into a better way to display comments for an upcoming release.
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