Hacker News: lupinglade

New comment by lupinglade in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

lupinglade — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:39:28 +0000

Apple has been going down hill at an exponential rate since the loss of Steve (and subsequently just about all real engineers at Apple).

Swift is turning into a mess and SwiftUI is complete, utter garbage. Tahoe’s UI is unbearable.

The problem is there is no real alternative - Linux is the closest thing (but has its issues).

New comment by lupinglade in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

lupinglade — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:46:24 +0000

Tahoe’s UI is a disaster. Giant buggy controls. Sad to see where macOS has ended up. Apple used to have so much attention to detail in their UI design - now it looks like it’s “anything goes”.

New comment by lupinglade in "Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe [video]"

lupinglade — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:09:37 +0000

And Canada too.

New comment by lupinglade in "Whitehouse Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases"

lupinglade — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:38:37 +0000

Pathetic.

New comment by lupinglade in "There's Life Inside Earth's Crust"

lupinglade — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:23:20 +0000

Human accelerated change is the concern.

New comment by lupinglade in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

lupinglade — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:15:31 +0000

I long for a modern NeXTStep-like OS. A polished, consistent, solid operating system that is lean, clean and simply focused on getting things done. It should be predictable in every way and never get in your way. None of this SwiftUI bullshit, Animoji, AI or blurry UI. sigh

New comment by lupinglade in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

lupinglade — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:06:57 +0000

Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.

New comment by lupinglade in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

lupinglade — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:04:43 +0000

Not sure.

New comment by lupinglade in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

lupinglade — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:03:34 +0000

This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.

New comment by lupinglade in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

lupinglade — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:07:09 +0000

The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.

New comment by lupinglade in "Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore"

lupinglade — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:39:01 +0000

Actually, in the long run, it's likely to make good engineers a lot more scarce.

New comment by lupinglade in "Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework"

lupinglade — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:01:23 +0000

It is a webpage that was quickly put together. We are a small company and our focus has been on the product. You can run Linux and macOS currently. That is listed on the features page as well as the app store product listing.

There is no dark pattern, it is actually a problem with the way Apple allows developers to sell software on the Mac App Store. We don't have proper control over the process and thus end up with this convoluted purchasing system that is more geared towards subscriptions - which are the real dark pattern nowadays. We sell without any subscriptions - at a very fair price that is extremely competitive with other products. The old upgrade pricing model was a lot more fair to both developers and users and we are sticking to it. This is the only way to offer a free trial on the App Store without requiring a separate installation, which would be inconvenient for everyone.

Far from a university project - but your opinion is yours to keep. It is a shame you are so negative, as it really is a labour of love and a quality Mac app. In fact we have a lot of firsts here, no one has really done a lot of these things (snapshots, suspend & resume, proper dynamic resolution with retina support) with the new Apple framework yet.

New comment by lupinglade in "Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework"

lupinglade — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:01:33 +0000

Yes, VMTek does snapshots natively and takes advantage of APFS. We have a great graphical snapshot UI as well.

New comment by lupinglade in "Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework"

lupinglade — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:56:39 +0000

Also check out https://www.getvmtek.com for something very polished. We just released a huge update a few days ago.

New comment by lupinglade in "I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music"

lupinglade — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:13:51 +0000

This is self promotion, but we genuinely have a great solution to this with a free (no commitment) trial: FireStream https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/firestream-upnp-dlna-med...

New comment by lupinglade in "MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)"

lupinglade — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 05:52:31 +0000

The app launch delays still occur when the internet connection is slow or lossy even in Ventura beta.

New comment by lupinglade in "Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?"

lupinglade — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:50:10 +0000

Do you really have to ask?

New comment by lupinglade in "The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering"

lupinglade — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:26:47 +0000

Insteon isn't closed - it had an open and documented protocol and was supported by various software. It did not require "the cloud" either. The problem with Insteon is it was low quality hardware, not a very reliable protocol and there was a lack of good software.

New comment by lupinglade in "“I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances.”"

lupinglade — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:17:57 +0000

The same thing is happening in video games and even software. Technology is advancing but quality and talent are vanishing.

New comment by lupinglade in "Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship"

lupinglade — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:57:55 +0000

The Russian state media are reporting lie after lie - see some of the real footage from the war that you can easily find anywhere online and compare to what they are reporting. You don't need to be an intelligence expert to see that the Russian media is spreading outright lies and propaganda. Stopping this propaganda is the right thing to do.