Developer & IT

Hey MacApps! I'm Alan, I'm a developer that has been building Mac, iOS and web applications for over 30 years. Recently, I started a few Open Source projects and ran into the age old problem of user testing.... Problem: Developers have always been plagued by a problem: how do you user test when your application isn't ready for distribution yet? How do you maintain consistent user testing with different user personas

I made a free Mac menu bar app, rubarb.bar, that takes a different angle on brightness from the usual utilities. If you live in dark mode, you know the feeling: everything's dim and easy on the eyes, then one rogue app or a white webpage opens and blasts you. Normal auto brightness can't help, it only reacts to the room, not to what's on your screen. rubarb.bar is content-aware. It holds the actual light reaching you

Hey r/macapps, [Clarifying Note] I incorrectly used [OS] in the title and only realized after a comment asking where the source code was. I instantly noticed that [OS] here means Open Source. SoftVM is currently closed source and distributed through the Mac App Store only. That misunderstanding was completely my mistake, and I sincerely apologize for the confusion. With WWDC and the next macOS release coming soon, a

Just shipped the biggest update to Chunk since v2 launched: Bi-directional calendar sync (including Apple Reminders): Calendar changes now flow both ways across Google, Outlook and Apple Calendar, so moving a block in Chunk updates your real calendar and vice versa. Things-3-style task panel that replaces the old to-do mode. The task panel gives you a proper sidebar with lists etc. You drag tasks straight onto the da

It has been three months since one of the biggest changes occurred in this sub with our trust vs. transparency tier-based posting requirements: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ryaeex/rmacapps_mods_went_too_far_whats_changing_phase_3/ Over the last month, 5,400+ comments and posts have been removed by a combination of Reddit bots, sub automations, and fairly heavy moderation. I'm not sure how sustainable th

First time posting Lidless here. Some of you might know me from ShiftPlus, which I shared on this sub before. Same solo dev, just a smaller and very different app this time. The feedback here was honest and useful last time, so I'm bringing this one to the same crowd. One bit of honesty up front. Keep-awake apps are not exactly rare on this sub, so fair warning, this is another one. The thing I'll say to set it apart

First time posting Lidless here. Some of you might know me from ShiftPlus, which I shared on this sub before. Same solo dev, just a smaller and very different app this time. The feedback here was honest and useful last time, so I'm bringing this one to the same crowd. One bit of honesty up front. Keep-awake apps are not exactly rare on this sub, so fair warning, this is another one. The thing I'll say to set it apart