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marcelox86··on Effective HTML
A lot of Claude-isms in this page that reflect the limited creative judgement of the author. It makes me wince as I scroll further and see UX decisions that clearly have no thought put into them ... Just the statistical average of what clean design is meant to be , I suppose
marcelox86··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
What an insane thing to say
marcelox86··on The death and rebirth of my home server
This is why I'm looking into using Guix / Nix for when my home server dies and I need a replacement. Declarative setups make too much sense. The only form of history I have of the weird shit I did with a Mac mini running debian + a LaCiE HDD hub is my .bash_history file, which a chatbot was able to figure out for me.
marcelox86··on Old Computer Challenge
Its an incredibly millenial word and very cringey
marcelox86··on Swift Package Index joins Apple
I see the opposite, they have a lot of oss projects nowadays and most of their new, interesting stuff is getting open sourced too, a la Microsoft
marcelox86··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
the Linux distro I want does not yet exist.
marcelox86··on I Won't Buy You a Coffee
Everyday I am bewildered by how different I see the world than others. I thought this was a nonissue for everyone
marcelox86··on Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing
Org mode isn't that hard, but Emacs takes years

I'm saying this as an Emacs user.

marcelox86··on BBEdit 16
I use emacs but I don't know what you're referring to. Can you enlighten me please
marcelox86··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
there is also some janky, cheap feeling lenis-type of scrolling hijacking in place that gets disabled when the viewport is about the size of a phone.

tried to disable it by turning off javascript and the page no longer loads - thus i am completely uninterested in reading this article

marcelox86··on The Slow Death of the Power User
> My advice would be to get used to this style

this style is like nails on a chalkboard. if they can’t care enough to make it readable, then they couldn’t pay me to care to read it

marcelox86··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
It is so disingenuous to mention the whatsapp electron client and not pretend its a slow turd. or maybe your comment is sarcasm and i just can’t notice it
marcelox86··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
I already have, but I wish I didn't have to...I don't see a reason for updates to be this granular especially when the only release notes are the diffs and the commit messages in between tags.

I understand "shipping at the speed of inference", but it makes the people who opt into updates more like testers on a "nightly" release cycle. At that point, I'd call it a nightly.

marcelox86··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
Opening the app and getting a new sparkle update dialog everytime is getting very annoying…especially for updates that are relatively minor.

just today its gone from 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7 -> 1.1.8 -> 1.1.9 -> 1.2 -> 1.2.2 (skipped 1.2.1?) in under 5 hours. A lot of these could wait until theyre put in a relatively bigger release!

marcelox86··on Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
not the design per se (however you are right that theres a lot of swiftui usage here that is only available on newer macos’) but mainly because it is using the new @Observable observation macro that is only available on macOS 14+
marcelox86··on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
Texas? :(
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Oh wow, just tried it and youre right. This is a regression, pre-launch after you finished recording with the global hotkey, the icon in the dock would bounce and it would bring up the main window to start editing. Ill fix this in the next minor release
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
I would still use Audio Hijack when it comes to recording long-form internal audio like zoom meetings. RM2000 Tape Recorder is meant for shorter, "music-like" recordings.

here is what I would want the average Sample Library for RM2000 Tape Recorder to look like : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXwCcAR6uw . Its more of a tool like PureRef, Pinterest & Are.na (for grabbing quick ideas) rather than Audacity or Audition.

marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Very close to Garamond! Its "Instrument Serif" - i wouldve put Garamond but I don't know if i have the rights to that.
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
version 1.0.1 does keep a cached file undeleted (due to an oversight)....and has a lot of other bugs. version 1.0.2 doesnt!

On the other note - right now RM2000 Tape Recorder uses the ScreenCaptureKit API. This is the worst API i've ever used - every app i've tried out that uses it (Polycapture, QuickRecorder, Ayazaka) has had EXC_BAD_ACCESS problems with it, and sometimes it causes `replayd` to consume 5% of cpu even after the recording is done. I plan to move all the recording into a CoreAudio API, which is not only stable, but also has the added benefit of being more privacy conscious - it only uses the "record system audio" macOS permission instead of the "record the ENTIRE screen" permission.

right now, the app does the bare minimum of trying to record the screen. it captures a 2 x 2 window of the screen, and it throws away all the video buffers regardless. i've always felt like im actually doing something that apple wouldn't like and they just didn't see it. moving to the new API is one of my top priorities, and it still lets me keep the minimum requirement at macOS 14.6+

marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
I wouldn't do it until I can get a proper iPhone port out - and even then ill still have to think about it :P
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
I plan for more skeuomorphic themes in the future (i got very tired of looking at the same design for 3 months!)

but yes this is more of a "remember when..." kind of design. i do have some drafts for easter eggs that tie more into "real world problems" :P

marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Currently a bug in 1.0.1 - there's a fix in 1.0.2, and it should be approved by App Store review team shortly :)
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Europe DSA restrictions - I've given Apple some documents to prove my trader status under the EU 28 hours ago, but so far they haven't approved them yet :(
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
The original name of the project was actually supposed to be `replica.app`!

Had to change it because an AI company came out with an AI music tool called replica...but i hope daniel lopatin comes across it one day :D

marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Hi everyone, seeing all the new responses here - I will want to warn of a bug on 1.0.1 that prevents some samples from getting saved properly, and all that is left is a hidden "cached" audiofile on the sample directory. I've fixed it in version 1.0.2 and it should be approved by App Store review team soon :)
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Alt + Command + G is the default! This can be changed from settings too :)
marcelox86··on Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS
Lifetime, until the app store dies, and the sun blows up :)

If you buy the lifetime license , it is my intention that you get to keep using it forever, until macOS 26, macOS 36, etc.