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Alin Panaitiu's notes and ramblings: short-form content on macOS apps, music and computers in general

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28 from 16 Jul 2021 to 4 Mar 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 1

  1. How good is Claude, really?

2025 2

  1. Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups
  2. I'll quit my job and buy a farm

2024 4

  1. How I made my SwiftUI calendar app 3x faster
  2. In search of the simplest all-in-one blade sharpener
  3. my spoon carving journey
  4. Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

2023 12

  1. Costs of running a macOS app studio business
  2. Integrating dynamic binaries in macOS apps
  3. Fetching land coordinates from Romania's Geoportal
  4. Restarting macOS apps automatically on crash
  5. The complex simplicity of my static websites
  6. Install any website as PWA on iOS
  7. Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
  8. Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
  9. Can we hide the orange dot without disabling SIP?
  10. Decoding monitor EDID on macOS
  11. Making macOS apps uninstallable
  12. Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode

2022 7

  1. SwiftUI is convenient, but slow
  2. How I write this blog on my iPhone, from a train
  3. My App Store review timeline (mostly rejections)
  4. Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
  5. App Store doesn't accept "too simple" apps
  6. A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
  7. Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)

2021 2

  1. Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
  2. The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs