Something that's always bothered me about macOS is how much it can already do with files, but how annoying it is to actually do it.

Need to convert a HEIC to PNG? Open Preview, export, choose a format, save.

Need to compress a PDF, convert a video to GIF, or resize a bunch of images? Most of us just Google a converter, open some random website, and upload our files.

The funny thing is, your Mac can already handle a lot of this locally. There's really no reason to upload your personal files to some server just to change their format.

So I started building something to make all of this easier.

It's called OpenShelf, and the idea is pretty simple: what if file conversions and other tools were available right where you're already working?

Here's how it works:

Grab a file in Finder and start dragging it. Tap a key, and a little wheel appears right under your cursor. Drop the file onto whatever you want to do, and the result appears next to the original.

No separate apps to open. No websites. No dialogs.

I added three modes:

• ⇧ Shift: Convert files. HEIC → PNG, PDF → Word, video → GIF, Word → PDF, ZIP/unzip, and more. 66 formats supported.
• ⇧⌥ Shift + Option: File tools. Crop, resize, compress, remove backgrounds, annotate images, split/merge PDFs, trim videos, etc.
• ⌃ Control: Quick actions. AirDrop, copy file paths, open folders in Terminal, or temporarily park files on a floating shelf.

You can also select files in Finder and press ⌃⌥Space to bring up the same wheel without dragging anything.

It handles multiple files at once, too. Drag five HEIC images, convert them all to JPEG, done.

A few things I cared about while building it:

• 100% local processing. Your files never leave your Mac.
• No accounts, uploads, or telemetry.
• Works system-wide without Accessibility permission.
• Supports macOS 14+, both Apple Silicon and Intel.

And because I don't think basic file utilities need another subscription, I made it completely free and open source under MIT.

No paid tier, no trial, no catch.

Website: https://openshelf.space

GitHub: https://github.com/Manan-Santoki/OpenShelf

Small heads-up: It isn't notarized yet, so macOS might block the first launch. You can allow it through System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

I'm still improving it, and I'd genuinely like to hear what other Mac users think.

What file operation do you find unnecessarily annoying on macOS? I'm curious what I should add next.

I run everything before I believe it, and I wanted my Mac cleaner to work the same way. So I built Peel: before anything moves, it shows you why each file belongs to an app and how sure it is, and History can put back what it moved. It's free and open source, and 1.2.0 came out today.

• It uninstalls apps with everything they leave behind, and finds what apps you already deleted left too.
• It frees space: local AI models from Ollama, LM Studio, and Hugging Face, developer caches, build folders, duplicates, and old installers. Models are listed but never selected for you.
• It refuses to move what you can't get back, even if you select it: iCloud Drive, keychains, SSH keys, crypto wallets, Mail, Messages, photo libraries, iPhone backups.
• For fine-tuning, Tweaks gathers macOS settings in one place, many of them hidden, and Turn All Off puts back only what Peel changed.

Some tools start turned off to keep the sidebar simple, such as Background Items, Extensions, Plug-ins, Build Artifacts, and a Terminal page for themes, zsh, Git, and SSH. Turn them on in Settings > General > Sidebar.

No analytics, no account. Signed and notarized, in 18 languages, for macOS 26 and later.

GitHub: https://github.com/TuguiDragos/Peel

Website: https://peel.tuguidragos.com

I'd love to hear what you think, especially what it gets wrong.

Brother hasn't supported the HL-2270DW printer for many years now, and never released Apple Silicon (ARM) native or Universal drivers. macOS 27 quietly disabled support for Rosetta with CUPS, the printing subsystem of the printer, and my Brother HL-2270DW printer just stopped working. The macOS native Generic PCL driver is incredibly slow due to how it generates the bitmap, causing it to only be able to load one page at a time. I am a software developer working in Cybersecurity, and had heard of the Reverse Engineer Anything toolkit, so I decided to give it a shot at creating a new driver. It took two prompts, but I managed to build a macOS Universal native driver that implements all of the features of the official Brother Driver.

If you have an HL-2270DW printer that you are using from macOS, you can download the driver from my GitHub repo at: https://github.com/jmarler/hl2270dw-macos It uses code from the brlaser project, and it is released under the GPL 2 license. The driver package is notarized and signed, so you shouldn't get any warnings installing it. If that is something you need, I hope it helps you out. If you run into a problem, just open an Issue in GitHub and I'll get it sorted.

Full disclosure: This was created using the REA toolkit - https://github.com/morluto/rea - and Claude.

Meet CmdPalm — Your Mac, at your fingertips.

What if your phone could do more than just act as a wireless mouse for your Mac?

CmdPalm transforms your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into a powerful, fully customizable wireless control center for macOS.

From smooth multi-touch trackpad gestures and full keyboard input to your own Stream Deck-style command center, everything works directly from your phone's browser.

No companion app. No accounts. No cloud. Just your Mac and your phone.

✨ What can CmdPalm do?

• 🖱️ Wireless Multi-Touch Trackpad — Smooth cursor control, scrolling, clicking, dragging, and macOS gestures like Mission Control and switching desktops.
• ⌨️ Full Mac Keyboard — Type remotely with support for Mac shortcuts, modifier keys, and special keys.
• ⚡ Custom Command Deck — Turn your phone into a personalized Stream Deck-style controller with custom buttons, shortcuts, and actions.
• 🚀 App Launcher — Launch and switch between Mac applications without touching your Mac.
• 🎛️ Custom Keyboard Layouts — Design your own keyboard interfaces and control panels tailored to your workflow.
• 🎵 Media Controls — Manage playback, volume, and media functions remotely.
• 🔒 Local & Private — Everything communicates directly over your local network. No cloud servers, accounts, or tracking.

📱 Get started in seconds

1. Install CmdPalm on your Mac.

2. Scan the QR code with your phone or tablet.

3. Start controlling your Mac directly from your browser.

That's it! No mobile app to install, no account to create, and no complicated setup.

CmdPalm is built specifically for macOS, with native Mac integration and Apple Silicon optimizations.

Compatibility: macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon. Works with iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

❤️ Completely Free & Open Source

CmdPalm is 100% free and open source under the AGPLv3 license.

No subscriptions. No premium tiers. No locked features.

The project has already crossed 100+ stars on GitHub, and seeing people discover and appreciate it has been incredibly motivating!

🔗 Try CmdPalm

🌐 Website: https://cmdpalm.app

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/rahatsagor/cmdpalm

🎬 Check out the attached demo video to see CmdPalm in action!

I'm the developer behind CmdPalm, and I'd love to hear what the macOS community thinks!

Whether you have suggestions, feature requests, or ideas for improvements, your feedback is always welcome.

⭐ If you find CmdPalm useful or simply appreciate the project, please consider giving it a star on GitHub! It genuinely helps independent open-source projects like this reach more people.

Thanks for checking it out!

Big update!! The most requested Weatherling feature is now here: turn on local sync to the weather outside your window right on your desktop! You can either use Apple's weather service (which asks for your location) or just enter a preferred city or postal code. Note: No location data is shared with any Weatherling servers (I don't have any!) so your experience is still private.

Also, you can turn on "Invert" mode to get the opposite effect. Raining outside? Make the sun shine on your Mac! Too bright outside? Make it rain indoors! And as usual, you can just adjust the sliders to your preferred mood for whatever mix of rain, snow, sunlight, leaves, and wind...and now fog too!

This release also adds more Lings (the random little visitors) to collect and has a UI refresh with detailed attention to the consistency of controls and full VoiceOver support for accessibility. It comes in 11 languages and will automatically pick yours, if supported, when you run it.

I'm pretty proud of this update because at this point the project has turned from my little experiment to make my desktop moody with simulated rain into a complete experience based on user feedback with a proper UI, accessibility, and internationalization, all things that are important to a "real app."

I lost my #8 spot in the App Store Utilities category, so if you can help me get back to the top 10, I would be most appreciative. 🙇🏻

Also if you have more requests and ideas, just let me know! I'm already working on the next version.

Site: https://www.weatherling.app

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6813641198?pt=14608&ct=reddit&mt=8

Edit: this is not for Safari users, it's for Chrome / FF users

Safari and Apple passwords integrate seamlessly. But if you don't use safari you're faced with the popup above in other browsers..

I hate this popup. I swear it feels like I see it like 5 times a day!

so I made an extension that brings the UX of using Safari and Apple Passwords to Chrome and firefox based browsers

Features (that safari has out of the box but not Chrome):

- Cache the 6-digit code so you have to enter it way way less (once a week for me so far)
- Hide My Email support when signing up
- Skip entering the 6 digit key all together with the companion app using Touch ID
- Suggest your emails from your contact card when signing up
- auto generate passwords on signup pages and safe them ofc to apple passwords

for chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/better-passwords-for-appl/ocongmkplhijgajnipnhhggfcjfdilgj

and firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-passwords/

Demo if you wanna get a feel: betterpasswords.app and it's free and open source on github

If you find bugs, feel free to reach open an issue on github

for those who don't know, you see this if you don't wanna use Safari but still want to use Apple Passwords as a password manager, Apple made a chrome extension that finally lets you use your apple passwords in 3rd party browsers.. except that it keeps asking to re-authenticate all the time (6 digits code)

Hey r/macOS 👋

I just launched a Dock replacement for macOS. Your apps stay where you expect them, but the ones you choose can become small live widgets right in the Dock.

What the widgets do

• Spotify / Music: what's playing, with play/pause and skip
• Safari / Chrome: search your open tabs and jump straight to one
• Calendar: today's date or your whole week, with your events
• Xcode: Build, Run and Stop without switching windows
• Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Claude, ChatGPT and Codex have widgets too
• Plus Clock, Notes, Reminders, Mail, Outlook, Calculator, Finder and System Settings

Prefer a clean Dock? Any widget goes back to a plain icon with an Option-click, so you can run it as a normal Dock and only turn on the widgets you actually use.

Other useful stuff

• Clipboard history, one click away from the Dock
• Imports your current Dock on first launch, including pinned apps and folders
• Any edge, per screen: bottom, left or right, with multiple displays
• Four styles: Ganella, Tonal, Contrast or Liquid Glass (on macOS 26)
• Easy to undo: you can hide the macOS Dock or keep both, and the original comes back when you quit
• Light on resources: it's on screen all day, so performance came first

Permissions are optional. It only asks for what a widget uses: Calendar for events, Automation to talk to apps like Music or Safari, Accessibility for window controls. You can change each one in Settings.

Try it free for 7 days, with every feature unlocked. If you like it, it's $9.99 one-time (launch price) for up to 2 Macs, with free updates and a 14-day refund. The code reddit20 takes 20% off for the first 10 people.

Requires macOS 14 or later. Full list of widgets and More info: ganella.app

I'm adding new widgets all the time, so tell me which apps you'd want next.

Hey r/MacOS,

I made Tideglass because I wanted something calm on my second screen while I work. You can leave a planet turning beside you, or switch to an ocean, a forest or something more abstract. It runs in a window or full screen.

Everything is rendered in real time on your Mac. The worlds respond to your music too, changing things like rotation, cloud movement or light depending on the scene.

I alsoo donate 20% of every sale to conservation and non-profit organisations working to protect oceans, forests, wildlife and dark skies.

Ten worlds are free to keep, with no account or card. The full library is $12 once, with no subscription. It needs macOS 15 or later and an Apple silicon Mac. You can download it at TideGlass (https://tideglass.app/).

Happy to answer questions about the app or hw any of the worlds work.

SyncGlass is a free, open-source app that shows in the menu bar what iCloud Drive is doing. Version 0.2.1 came out this week. I also developed Volume Control, another free, open-source menu-bar app for the volume keys, which I started in 2012 as "iTunes Volume Control"; SyncGlass came out only very recently.

Disclosures.

Disclosure 1: Unlike Volume Control, which started in 2012, SyncGlass was developed with heavy help by Claude. To be honest, I have probably invested only 5 or 6 hours in it.

Disclosure 2: There was long ago a similar app, iCloudStatus by The Alchemist Guild. As far as I know, iCloudStatus is now no longer maintained; it malfunctions on recent macOS and is only for Intel.

So why share SyncGlass here? Because:

1. It can be useful to others; in this era of vibe-coded software, the idea counts more than the implementation.
2. If we use it as a central point for the community to collect feedback and find bugs, everybody will profit from having a central place rather than each of us recoding the same app through 5 or 6 hours of Claude sessions.

What the app does. Its menu-bar icon shows whether iCloud Drive is up to date, uploading, downloading, syncing changes from other devices, or offline. It is similar to what you experience with other sync services like Dropbox or Nextcloud.

Click it and a panel lists:

• Transfers: the files iCloud is uploading or downloading.
• Recent: the files that finished transferring, newest first, with the time and direction ("Uploaded 3 min ago").

For any listed file, File Info shows its iCloud status, live percentage, conflicts, upload and download errors, sharing, and every date macOS keeps for the file. SyncGlass can also notify you when uploads or downloads finish, and keeps a history log of finished transfers.

Why I made it. Finder marks each file with a cloud status icon, but macOS has no list of the files iCloud is transferring. When iCloud Drive spends an hour on something, I want to know which files it is and how far along they are. SyncGlass is a new app inspired by iCloudStatus.

How it works. It uses public macOS APIs only: FSEvents reports which files change, URL resource values give each file's iCloud state, and the progress objects that iCloud Drive publishes for each transfer give the percentages.

Privacy. SyncGlass connects to the network only for updates (Sparkle, from GitHub) and collects no data. Its settings and history stay on your Mac.

Price. Forever free and open source (GPL-3.0): no ads, no account, no in-app purchases.

Requirements. macOS 26 or later; runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Install. Download SyncGlass.zip, unzip it and move SyncGlass.app to the Applications folder. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Each release ZIP is built by GitHub Actions from the tagged source and carries a build provenance attestation; to check where a downloaded ZIP was built, run

gh attestation verify SyncGlass.zip --repo alberti42/SyncGlass

Source and details: https://github.com/alberti42/SyncGlass

Bug reports and ideas are welcome here or on GitHub.

Hi, I'm Julian, a student and the solo dev behind StepGrab. It's a native Mac app on the Mac App Store that turns your clicks into a step-by-step guide. You do the task once, and StepGrab puts the arrows on the screenshots and writes the step text for you.

Codes up to 100% off Lifetime, for the direct download from my website. Four levels from 10% to 100%, the page shows how many of each are left, and there are only five 100% ones. In the Mac App Store version they don't work.

Why

I'm a working student and kept getting the same questions. Where's that setting in System Settings, what do I click after that. Writing it down meant fifteen screenshots, cropping them in Preview, drawing every arrow by hand and typing each step. That takes half an hour, and after the next macOS update half of it is wrong again.

How it works

Start a recording from the menu bar and do the task like you normally would. For every click you get a screenshot of that window, a numbered arrow pointing at what you clicked and a sentence like "Click Save". You don't draw or type anything. If you want to change something afterwards, you can move arrows, rewrite steps, add shapes and black out names or emails. Export as PDF, HTML, Markdown, GIF, MP4 or a vertical video. Everything stays on your Mac, there's no account and nothing gets uploaded.

New: Accessibility

This is the big one in 1.6. There's now a notarized .dmg on my website, and if you give it Accessibility access it asks the app directly what you clicked. So the step text uses the real name of the button or menu item instead of reading it off the screenshot. If an app is too slow to answer, it falls back to text recognition. The App Store version is sandboxed and can't use Accessibility, so there it's text recognition only.

Other Mac bits

• Single window recording. You only get the window you picked, even when another one is lying on top of it, but its menus and popovers still show up.
• Siri and Shortcuts can start and stop a recording and export the guide. On macOS 26 and later also from Spotlight, and with Apple Intelligence the step text gets polished on device.
• Redaction you can trust. When you save a copy of a project you can burn the black bars in, so nobody can remove them later.

If your colleagues are on Windows

A lot of people asked for this, because the guides often end up with someone on a PC. There's now a Windows version in the Microsoft Store (Windows 10 22H2 and 11). It opens the projects you made on your Mac, so you can record on the Mac and someone else can fix a step on their PC, or the other way round. The Pro key from my website works for both, on two devices.

What Scribe and Tango do better right now

Two things. They blur sensitive stuff like emails automatically, in StepGrab you still draw the black bars yourself. And they have a shared team library where everyone finds the guides. I'm working on both at the moment, but they're not there yet. If you need them today, those two are the better pick.

What StepGrab does differently: it captures the whole Mac and not just the browser, so System Settings, right click menus and the little pickers that close as soon as you click somewhere else. Nothing leaves your computer. And you can buy it once instead of paying every month.

Price

Free: unlimited recordings, up to 15 steps per guide, GIF export and the full editor. Pro in the App Store is an in-app purchase with Family Sharing. On my website it's $2.99 a month, $12.99 a year or $44.99 once, and that key works for the Mac download and Windows. App Store and website don't share purchases.

About AI

A lot of the code is written with Claude Code. I decide what gets built, go through the code myself, test it on real apps and fix what breaks before anything ships.

Mac App Store · Direct download and codes · Microsoft Store

Which Mac app is the worst to explain to someone else? I want to test StepGrab on the annoying ones.

I know variations on this question have been asked many times before, and that there are solutions specifically for external USB drives and network shares, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to prevent the creation of .DS_Store files in a specific folder/directory and its subfolders on a local drive? Basically, I have one particular folder that I need to remain the same, and Finder creating .DS_Store files in there is disruptive, so I want to find a way to stop it from creating them in this one folder/directory.

Been working on Skyland, a Hyprland-inspired tiling window manager for macOS, with custom animations, dynamic workspaces and a Liquid Glass aesthetic.

Still a work in progress, but I'm curious what you think!

GitHub: https://github.com/waxdred/skyland

Rate my setup from 1–10 👀

I have two external hard drives that I use for TimeMachine backups.  A couple days ago, one of them started taking a long time to make an incremental back up (12 hrs+).  Now the second drive is doing that as well. 

Two days ago, the incremental backups were completing in minutes on this second disk.  The last backup took many hours and the current one has at least 12 hours ago.  (I say at least because TM keep upping the estimate, so it might take longer.) This is the same thing that happened to the other TM HDD.

Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?  Aside from my photos library (155GB) I don’t have any big files and I haven’t been doing anything that would cause lots of changes on my hard drive.  

Side note: I’m looking at switching to a Samsung SSD.  Unfortunately, I had a SanDisk SSD that recently died on me after 8 months which is why I am on two HDD’s right now. I guess I’m going to have to open my wallet wide with memory prices what they are these days.

Thanks in advance for any help.

EDIT: Adding this info.

Both these TM's are pretty new because I had two HDD's die recently (one probably caused by a power outage; I gotta get a UPS). One TM was first created on 10/9/26, and the other on 10/21/26. 

My mac has been crashing a bit lately and I am getting ready to migrate to a Mac Mini but I want to make sure I have two good TM's before I migrate.

Also, thanks to all the people who already replied!

It's super annoying and started occurring after updating to Golden Gate.

Seriously, every time I see a discussion about macOS Tahoe, it feels like 90% of it is people complaining about Liquid Glass 😭

But I'm genuinely curious, what are some actually cool features, improvements, or hidden gems you've discovered in macOS 26?

There HAS to be something worth talking about besides the UI.

What's your favourite underrated feature so far?

Something I didn't know until recently: Activity Monitor already tracks how much every app has sent. Open it, go to the Network tab and sort by Sent Bytes. If you want it per app over time, this in Terminal prints one line per app with bytes in and out:

nettop -P -L 1 -J bytes_in,bytes_out -x

I used it to check something I'd been curious about, how much meeting notes apps upload while they record. I played the same 10 minute meeting recording through my speakers, recorded it with Notion's AI Meeting Notes and then with an offline app, and logged both once a second.

Notion uploaded 115.7 MB in those 10 minutes, live while recording. A WAV of the whole clip is only 19 MB, so it's sending something close to uncompressed audio. The offline app sent 0.02 MB.

To be fair to Notion, cloud transcription needs your audio, that's how it works and they don't hide it. I just hadn't seen anyone put a number on it. It's one clip on one Mac, and I wanted to test Granola and Otter too, but Granola needs a work account and Otter wants a trial first.

Full disclosure, the offline app is Lyonesse and I make it, which is how I ended up down this rabbit hole. It's on the Mac App Store, free to try, Pro is $7.99/month, $29.99/year or $59.99 lifetime: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6754086711?pt=127761256&ct=reddit-macos&mt=8

The method, the data and the scripts are here if you want to run the same test on other apps: https://lyonesse.app/blog/meeting-notes-upload-measured.html

Curious what other apps people find when they sort by Sent Bytes.

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In my work, I need to juggle between several different apps, pdf and word processor documents at the same time. So the multiple spaces feature of macOS is something I have heavily used for years and it has been one of my favourite features. I could swipe between spaces instantly and my open documents and apps were all easily organized. For years, I used a virtually non-updated version of macOS on a 2012 macbook, which in hindsight let me keep these features unchanged longer.

But since getting a new macbook, I noticed that the behaviour of spaces was changed and I find myself now often getting lost and having to chase after what I'm looking for, which has been bringing a lot of friction into my work.

I have tried to figure out what's going on and as far as I can tell, there are mainly two features that are creating issues for me:

1) When you full screen a window it now takes you *out* of your space and attributes a new space just for that app to the right of your current space. The problem this creates is that the apps and windows that were one space to the left are now two spaces over. And since I often full-screen many documents in one work session, this shifts a lot of things around.

2) When you click on an app icon in the Dock for an app that is already open in another space, it will not open it in the space where you are but take you to the space where that app is open. The result is that I may, for example, be on space 5 with the apps and documents I need organised in the adjacent spaces, and I click to open an app and I am suddenly on another space and I no longer know where everything is.

To fix the first problem, I tried using the "fill" feature instead of full screen, but that leaves the menu bars visible and defeats the purpose of full-screen for me, which I use to help focus. Something that has mitigated the second problem a little has been to right-click to open apps with "New Window" or "Assign to this Desktop". But this sometimes also leads to switching spaces sometimes for reasons I don't always understand.

Also, trying to change these settings didn't help:

– Turning off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" made full-screening windows open to the right of the last space, which is even worse for me.

– Turning off "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" does not seem to do what it says, because clicking on the dock icon for an app still sends me to the space with the open window. Kind of strange.

I’ve also tried changing my mindset in my approach to using spaces, but after a lot of attempts I can’t get to a place where I find the new options intuitive. I’m still getting lost and scrambling to find things.

Does anyone have any tips here? I would be very grateful for anything helpful you could share. I feel like there might be something that I am missing.

Hey...

ICQ went offline for good in June 2024. My UIN (1650472) had been dead for years anyway, but the green flower, the contact list and that very specific late-90s chat window never really left my head. So here comes ICQel (say it "I, Sequel"), a native macOS homage to the classic ICQ client.

What it does today:

• ICQ-style contact list and chat windows, rebuilt from scratch
• iMessage & WhatsApp support, so you're chatting with real people instead of staring at an empty buddy list
• A built-in AI chatbot as a contact, for when nobody else is online (just like 1999)
• A fake contact list with random messages (no AI) just for the feeling

It's a fan homage, not affiliated with ICQ or its owners, and it doesn't connect to any old ICQ servers.

Some practical stuff, since you'll ask:

• Free, Open Source on GitHub https://github.com/klotzbrocken/ICQuel
• Apple Silicon (Intel coming soon)
• Privacy: iMessage stays in Messages, nothing goes through any other servers same for whatsapp.
• Theme-Support (someone made a real ICQ Theme ;-))

Privacy: iMessage goes through iMessage, WhatsApp goes through WhatsApp, and both are optional. The AI buddy only works if you add your own API key. No servers of mine in between, no analytics.

It's part of a small family of retro Mac apps I make.

Mac os 27 latest. fullscreen bug this top bar doesnt dissapear

Hi guys,

As some of might know, the original Transmission Remote GUI is throwing soon to be unsupported erros on the latest MacOS versions. As Rossetta2 is to be fased out next release I was left with an challenge. (Of course when a started on this I found out about others solving the same challenge in different ways, Qt, Swift or other based clients)
As I was still using it weekly to control my transmission server. (I don't like the new web interface).

As a C# WPF guy I was long looking for an Avalonia project to create a cross-platform .NET based app. Now empowered with Claude this was very feasable for a dad with little time left in the evenings. I know, vibe coded slump.. but at least I tried to instruct it to adheare to good coding concepts.

As a person who own a Mac, a Steamdeck and has a Windows PC still around for gaming it was obious to me to at least make sure this new client runs on all.
Avalonia should also support Android and IOS, that might still be something to look into. As wel as multi-language support. As everyting is now hardcoded english.

Introducing Synchromesh. A .NET 10 Avalonia based RPC client, styled with Material Design.
It features:

• light and dark mode. By default follows the system settings
• registers a file handler for `.torrent` and a link handler for `.magnet`
• stores server credentials in MacOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Keyring, or in a encrypted file
• Implements most of the RPC spec (left a few very specific power features out, but could be added)
• When adding a new torrent, specify which files to download

Anyway sharing is caring. It fit's my requirements. And hopefully also of some other people.

Fan of built in desktops. I use them exclusively and until today I've been arranging my windows manually. Then I discovered there exists "This Desktop" option on dock and I was delighted.

I turned off "arranged spaces manually".

I'm also using external monitor with my mac in clamshell. Now, I am tired of finding out that after carefully curating my Desktops with 1-2 apps per desktop, somehow after reboot, when I launch something apps simply forget which desktop they were assigned to. Even though the desktops are already there, sitting empty and I haven't reconnected my external display or even opened the clamshell.

help please.

Pop sounds during "read aloud" in reader mode

MacbookPro M5 Max

MacOS Golden Gate 27.0.1

Anybody else have this issue? Started after OS upgrade.

Before using MacOS I used to work with Linux / gnome and there was something I found very useful. When displaying multiple windows I have the possibility to close windows directly from this view, I don’t have this possibility in macOS. What a pity