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hpen··on Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor
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hpen··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
A keyframe animation editor for native app components. Wrap your views in a special type, and load up the editor to drag around keyframes.

https://www.inertiagraphics.com

hpen··on Show HN: AgentSwift – Open-source iOS builder agent
Hi! This is a truly experimental project but the goal is something closer to Replit for native swift than Claude Code.

I hacked it together in a weekend it's not that serious.

hpen··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
An Audio workstation with a Git like branching model.

It's free for local use (meaning no cloud sync, or collaboration features: merge requests)

https://www.scratchtrackaudio.com

hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
I have updated the code to use 24bit/96khz sampling.
hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
Added some screenshots to the website.
hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
So it has the default AU plugins that are bundled with macOS.

I'm adding additional support for loading plugins. Eventually, I would like to add VST support but that's down the road a bit.

It has basic midi support, can use a controller, or edit with keyboard.

hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
Checkout the latest version. I have removed accounts for local use.
hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
Ah good catch! I'm adding 24 bit as we speak!
hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
I have built it because I'm a musician. That being said I am interested in serving my customers / community and am open to what features would be needed / what user experience would be desired.
hpen··on Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model
nice feedback. I'll get on that! Thanks
hpen··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with cloud sync (CRDTs) and collaboration.
hpen··on Design Teams Are Reacting to 10x Developer Productivity from AI
Yes, I've started a consultancy that does flat fee MVPs for 1000 bucks.

www.resilientapps.com

hpen··on Linter for Your Docs
Hi! I have also been working on a similar product! Wanna chat? https://resilientdocs.com
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I am building an open source editor / runtime for mobile app animations. It works by leveraging the native animation frameworks, but unifies them with a single schema, and designer friendly editor.

What separates Inertia from the others? You can load in your real app, website, etc and animate components already existing within code.

Also website preview here: https://www.inertia.graphics

hpen··on Show HN: I made AI app to suggest edits to documentation
Be one of the first users and help shape the product to your use case!
hpen··on Resilient Docs – AI suggestions to keep content fresh
Please try my new web app for keeping notes, and keeping content updated with AI suggestions. It’s free for the moment but will require a credit card soon. Unless convinced otherwise ;)
hpen··on The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
Does AI engineer == API Engineer?
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Ok got it. Crowdstrike is malware. If you install malware you're just a dumb user. got it.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Why? because it would have avoided 5 Billion in damages. I think that's reason enough for me.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
I'm not making an analogy with the microwave (your saying food is software and the microwave is hardware) I'm literally talking about the software that runs on a microwave.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
No smarty pants, I'm arguing that you can't load a program on a microwave's microprocessor. Should I be able to do that?

"And yes, in the real-world, third-party software can and does cause Macs to crash." Thanks for adding so much to the conversation (eyes rolled).

In the absolute sense 8.5M machines is a lot. Airlines down is a lot. Hospitals down is a lot. Hey we guarantee we won't wreck 99.4% of our machines out there! is not a good guarantee.

hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
The first point is pretty philosophical so I'm not gonna go far into that. At the end of the day you bought a product from a company, some of those products have a way to load programs on and some are locked down (a microwave). "should" is pretty biased whether I agree with that conclusion or not.

Two: Here I'm not arguing about what's possible but rather what happened in the real world. 8.5 M machines down, my org runs Macs, we knew about it from the news...

hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Ok I didn't realize that crowdstrike was more of competitor or maybe a hacky add-on (like a NOS). I was under the impression that it was something more in cooperation (not owned by or anything) but with Microsoft in terms of market support.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
The analogy falls apart because Microsoft's platform is meant to integrate with third party software, that's a feature of the system. If the "feature" can take down the system it's a fault of the system.

If you zoom out, Microsoft has a system, a feature allowed on that system, signed by a cert, etc, can take down 8.5million devices of your system, that is a fault of your system.

A counter example of how to architect the thing? MacOS, Linux.

hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Doesn't Honda say "don't do this or it's your fucking problem"
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
No. My point is that Microsoft allows the damn thing to be ran in kernel space. Mac, linux don't have this problem due to how THEY architected the system. Yes I think that puts Microsoft at blame.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
You're moving the goal post waaaay far down. How about just following best practices? How about not allowing runtime code injection? Turns out security holes often have much in common, and with ways to mitigate them. Stop 100% of security holes? nah. Stop 99.9% of security holes? Yes and what an improvement.
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Does crowdstrike void the warranty like an engine add on?
hpen··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
More like: "...you want Microsoft to forbid you from running certain kinds of programs (with gaping security holes / processes) on your own machine" YES
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