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Who cares?

Because it requires access to /opt/local. It drops down to the macports user for all the actual fetching and management.

MacPorts, of course, features an actual .pkg installer, as well as doing pretty much everything else better, and having more packages, and existing first.

MacPorts has existed since 2002 and was invented by Jordan Hubbard, who created the original FreeBSD ports system and was also employed on Apple's UNIX team.

MacPorts was created by the creator of the original FreeBSD ports system who was also an Apple employee. It ought to be everyone's first choice for package management on macOS.

Why not use MacPorts, which currently supports all the way back to Leopard, has far more packages than Homebrew, has a better design, and was created by the creator of the original FreeBSD ports system who also worked on Apple's UNIX team?

The ubiquity of Homebrew continues to confound me.

I’m an Apple cultist but it is somewhat comical that Apple has their own content blocking format built into their own browser but somehow thinks I’d ever want to pay for a subscription to read ad-encumbered news in a separate webview app

Billionaires need to own a subscription service to reinforce their own beliefs

All your comments are right wing shilling

Just install VS Code

I think I’m not allowed to say what I think should happen to anyone who works with Palantir.

Emojis as bullet points in the README make me think this was generated with an LLM. No thanks

Why is this written in lowercase? What a performative way to write in 2026

> Google is undeniably more developer-friendly than Apple IMO, though

Yeah, I love editing XML files to build my app

Xcode is great

What is the superior Electron based alternative to Pixelmator Pro? Final Cut? Logic? Pages?

Your AI can’t make a UI for 3 platforms? Seems pretty worthless.

Non-native UI widgets, non-native runtime, non-native language

I care. I refuse to use Electron slop unless it is literally the only option available (usually due to some proprietary locked-in platform eg Discord). I will happily pay significant sums of money for well-made native apps that often have fewer features than the Electron versions, simply for the pleasure of using tools that integrate seamlessly with my operating system. Not all of us have given up on software quality.

You built it, but your employee owns it? That sounds highly unusual.

YAML strings should really require delimiters rather than being context-dependent.

You can’t. Every attempt at privatizing rail is a failure with worse performance, higher prices, and an inevitable level of special treatment by the state due to the monopolistic utility-like nature of rail infrastructure. Not everything needs to or should be privatized.

The price of an ad-free original kindle experience was $409. The $10 is on top of the price the user paid for the device.

I am.

No, with Tahoe you get an inline input assuming “Accept input from Spotlight” is enabled for the Shortcut.

You don’t need third-party search managers like Alfred for this. You can just make a Shortcut called “llm” that accepts Spotlight input.

All of ffmpeg’s functionality is accessible from C (and transitively most other programming languages) via libavformat, libavcodec etc. FFmpeg supporting WebRTC means that projects using these libraries gain support for WebRTC in code.

Yes, pretty much every bit of ffmpeg can be enabled or disabled when compiling.

See also SwiftUI’s AttributedString, which can be directly instantiated from a string literal containing Markdown syntax.

> It’s trivial to create malformed Markdown syntax

Not helped by Gruber’s refusal to bless a specific well-specified Markdown flavor, leaving us to deal with all the undefined behavior of his original implementation.