Clop mentions (3)

• Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder with Libimagequant

  Love this thing! It enabled me to add a “Convert to GIF” for videos in my Clop app (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) in just a few lines of code. The GIF gets encoded at its optimal size by default so I didn’t have to do a second optimization step. I also like that the author spent time to add an easy way to build a static binary, which I need in order to ship gifski inside the app. Compressing all these static... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Reverse Engineering a Software Crack

  It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Injecting%20a%20DYLIB%20into%20a%20macOS%20app The nice thing is that a signed app will refuse to load a dylib that does not have the same signature. So crackers will be... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Marketing for Product-Obsessed Developers

  Looks like I’m doing something similar without being aware of it. My latest free macOS app IsThereNet [1] is really just a swift file bundled as an app. But it got a lot more press than I expected and brought enough users for my Clop app [2] where my marketing efforts did very little. I like to help others by sharing my efforts into fixing macOS incoveniences. But going from a script that runs fine for years on my... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

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