Developer & IT

hello guys, I’m a backend software engineer, so most of my experience is with api , infrastructure, databases, and server-side architecture. Recently I started building my first macos app and I’m realizing that making something work is very different from making it feel native, polished, and pleasant to use on macos I’d love to learn from people who use or build Mac apps regularly ! Thanks, folks !

Last September I put Actvt in front of you all here, It's a menu-bar system monitor app for Mac, the kind of thing you glance at to see and close what's actually eating your CPU, GPU and memory resources without keeping Activity Monitor open all day (and if you run AI coding agents like Claude or Codex, it shows you what those sessions are doing and costing). It got 60-something comments, and honestly most of them we

Problem: Spreadsheet apps like Numbers and Excel can silently reformat CSV data (dates, leading zeros, long numbers) and struggle with large files. Text editors keep the raw data safe, but you lose the grid view. I wanted a dedicated CSV editor that preserves the original format and still feels natural to use. Comparison: Compared with Modern CSV and Easy CSV Editor, I put more focus on making CSV editing feel famili

Dev here, 20 years in. Built Editorio for myself a while back because nothing on the mac did everything I wanted in one place. It's polished enough now that I figured I'd share it. Subscription text editor. Subscription notes app. Subscription markdown previewer. (lol). We live in the future. Macs have neural engines, and the industry's answer to "I want a nice text editor" is 4.99/month to render # heading as bold t

I’ve been steadily improving Neon Vision Editor over recent releases, and the jump from 0.7.1 to 0.7.6 introduces some of the most significant improvements so far. Neon Vision Editor is a fully native code editor for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS, built with SwiftUI and Apple frameworks. The focus is on fast editing, a clean interface, and avoiding unnecessary complexity. Problem: Most code editors on Apple platforms are ei