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I switched from Windows to macOS years ago, and one of the things I never bothered to write up is how much calmer it made my computer. Windows always had this background buzz: “updates available”, “restart to install”, “we’re configuring your PC, please don’t turn it off”. macOS isn’t perfect, but most days the OS gets out of the way. A yearly…
There are many discussions about the 30% fee Apple charges for the App Store. This fee is significant, and its benefits are not immediately clear. The complaints primarily come from large companies like Epic Games, Spotify, and Netflix, which have the resources to challenge Apple. However, what about indie developers? What do we receive in return for this 30% fee, and are we genuinely upset about…
First 24 hours with Vision Pro. It feels like a generation 1 product. Similar to how I felt with Apple Watch or Macbook M1, when they just came out. A lot of small issues here and there, but overall very impressed with the potential. Issue 1: Glare from very bright light on lens. Watching movies or playing games on Vision Pro is very straightforward. The screen does not have a lot of white lights,…
It is incredible. You can actually play AAA games on your Mac that require DirectX12. Diablo IV is one of them. I am able to play Diablo IV on my maxed-out MacBook Pro 16" 2023 with M2 Max 96Gb of RAM. Don’t want to get credit on that, as I have found an almost working for me solution on r/macgaming . Prerequisites I am running the latest macOS 14 (Sonoma), but some people mentioned that it…
I have been using Macbook Pro with M1 since the release of the MBP 13" M1 in 2020. And I am huge fan of the new Apple CPU - M1. Time to time I need to do some work on my 2019 16" MBP with Intel Processor (all maxed out), so I keep experience the difference between using those two. On MBP with M1 I can definitely see that the macOS works way more smooth. No more glitches or frozen screens for a few…
I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on Visual Studio. I worked in Splunk on some work related to the developers (App Platform). I can say that I had some experience building developer tools by learning from large corporations. For the…
I am excited to show my new application, ShellHistory. I can say that I started working on it four years ago when I published my little shell script dbhist . That script was convenient. It kept shell history from many macs for the last years (close to 100,000 records). But it was a time for an upgrade. Read more at loshadki.app…
In the last three and a half months, I kept enjoying my MacBook Pro 13" M1, battery life, performance; everything is on the top level. But I also have an MBP 16 2019 that I have been using for development before. This Mac is a top-loaded MBP that I could buy at that time with the price of close to $5,000. I tried to sell it, but most folks are trying to lowball me to 2,000. The Apple Trade-In…
I wrote two parts about how you can analyze the Access Logs from AWS Amplify. And it was a time to write a third part of the series. But after touching AWS QuickSight again (I use it for Outcold Solutions ) I realized that I don’t want to go through configuring it. As it is purely drag and drop way of building dashboards, and I am not very happy with that. Another option was to use AWS SES…
Really short and simple life-hack. Sometimes we have to pay for a few things with personal bank checks. Some banks charge you like $1 per one check, some banks give you 100 or 500 checks for free. And both options don’t really work for me. To get those checks, you have to go to the office or order them online and wait. Or if you get those 100-500 checks, I usually use only 5 of them before I…