Topics

macOS

Menu-bar tools, launchd, Swift, and keeping Macs useful as servers.

2011Publishing history, charted as a night's sleep · 2026

Projects

2

Thoughts

4

  1. Don’t let the main menu turn into a junk drawer. Anything that keeps piling up gets its own menu.

  2. A good test for any app: what would make it a no-question $25 one-time purchase?

  3. If the text already exists, read it. Don’t record the microphone to transcribe what the closed captions are already saying.

  4. Let the user pick light or dark. Player controls that change color with whatever is on screen are just annoying.