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Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by LatencyKills »

mgrunwald_ wrote: post #30
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Gatekeeper and notarization are not silliness. They exist for a reason. I thought it would be a good idea to release the app during development when I am sure that it works correctly and then maybe get some feedback from early users.

Ex-Apple macOS/Xcode dev here.

I just downloaded your app and ran it through hopper. There is a LOT of embedded Apple Script. I would never run an app like this with SIP disabled or without an active network blocker.

Your app requires direct access to major OS components: code signing, even during alpha should be a requirement.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

0x3f wrote: post #17
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

You don't need to do any of that to sign and notarize an app that you are distributing yourself.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by alsetmusic »

71bw wrote: post #39
jacobrast wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that you don't accidentally run malware. MacOS is not iOS, you can run unsigned code if you really want to, but it will make you jump through a few hoops.

How is this better than trying to eliminate the problem between the keyboard and the computer? The user won't learn if the computer handholds them through everything.

> The user won't learn

Full stop. I still talk to people every working day who don't realize that rebooting a computer is actually a real troubleshooting step. They seem to think it's bunk tech support mumbo jumbo rather than a genuinely useful step. It's 2026 and they're still surprised when that works.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by karimf »

ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Totally agree. There are significantly more new apps being released. I've been visiting the /r/macapps subreddit and they're having trouble filtering new submissions. I generally like the direction that they're taking https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ryaeex/rmacapps_m...

Even though it's more troublesome to submit apps to App Store, it's one signal that the app is not a malware.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by foltik »

ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Except it is just another piece of corporate silliness.

Why don’t you purchase your own developer account and sign it yourself if you trust it? Or are you saying them paying Apple $100/yr in perpetuity is what will make you trust it?

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ »

alsetmusic wrote: post #49

I get that there's a market to put command line preferences in a GUI wrapper, but wasn't HN going to limit posts from new accounts? Oh, it's not in Show HN. They found a loophole. Meanwhile, I'm running Claude Code and asking it to make me stupid bespoke things that only I want and I'm not spamming the internet with those tools because they aren't novel or useful for most people and you can have Claude Code build a v…

Not really just command line preferences. The app has many more features that use native macOS APIs. But thanks for your comment!

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by hspmn »

user3939382 wrote: post #45
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that. Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.

you're saying security should be optional and up to users?

lol

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by drfloyd51 »

user3939382 wrote: post #45
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that. Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.

Users used their freedom to choose macOS. Gatekeeper is a desirable feature. They opted-in with their purchase.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by foltik »

drfloyd51 wrote: post #58
user3939382 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that. Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.

Users used their freedom to choose macOS. Gatekeeper is a desirable feature. They opted-in with their purchase.

Speak for yourself, I used my freedom to disable it.
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