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A Mac App, Not an iOS App on a Mac
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (243+ words) Codename One's macOS build now targets AppKit directly, with NSWindow, NSMenu, NSTextInputClient, NSScreen, and an independent Metal surface for every window. Tagged with java, mobile, android, ios....
macOS Tahoe 26.4 update stops you from copying your login Keychain
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (758+ words) Sun Sep 13 2026, 12:15 PM EDT · 2 minute read Password versioning in Apple Passwords Attacks on Mac users are getting more sophisticated over time, with AI also opening the door to even more malware and the discovery of new intrusion techniques. While Apple…...
This Tiny Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1767+ words) A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit,…...
I turned the MacBook Menu bar into pure joy
5+ hour, 43+ min ago (35+ words) Stop ignoring your screen’s dead space. Turn your Mac menu bar into an interactive playground. The black menu bar on our MacBooks has just sat there …...
How to Edit a PDF File for Free (No Software) — Online Guide
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (160+ words) How-to Need to fix a typo, update a date, or change a line in a PDF? You don’t need expensive software or a round-trip through Word …...
I Built a Mac Menu Bar App Because I Kept Saying “Wait, What?” in Every Meeting (Live Demo 🚀)
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (1181+ words) Someone on a Zoom call said a URL yesterday. I was still writing down the previous bullet point …...
Full Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App
1+ day, 10+ min ago (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...
A Dialog Can Now Be a Native Desktop Window
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (270+ words) Codename One dialogs can stay inside a secondary window or become native modal windows, while sheets, popups, overlays, tooltips, HTML, and accessibility now resolve the correct top level. Tagged with java, mobile, android, ios....
I built Gridly: a Mac window manager controlled by title-bar swipes
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (220+ words) I’m Michael Yang, a solo indie maker at yangbyte. I built Gridly, a title-bar swipe window manager for macOS 14+. Instead of reaching for a menu or memorizing shortcuts, swipe a window’s title bar to move it into place. Gridly is…...
47GB of Compressed Memory and No Permission to Kill It: Handing a Monitoring Script Exactly One Root Command
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...