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Volum mentions (9)

• Can someone post this wallpaper or let me know where to find it?

  The right side widget is a Toggle Light button of my Volum app. I carry a warm LED string with me wherever I go because I can’t suffer the harsh lighting in most places. The widget helps me turn off the lights when I go to sleep. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What Happened to iOS Widgets?

  I've done a few widgets for Volum (to easily turn on/off DIY lights and mute speakers: https://lowtechguys.com/volum) and for Sub Sol (to see the next private party: https://subsol.one) Screenshot here: https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/mt37aX/Image.png While they're easy to write because of the new SwiftUI APIs, they're indeed very limited. All I am able to do is add buttons which when pressed, they open an URL. I... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Best tips for reducing eyestrain while coding with astigmatism?

  I received the same diagnostic in 2017, which coincided with the year I got my first external monitor for my MacBook. Headaches and eye pain became a more common occurence in the first weeks, until I stumbled upon ddcctl [0] and the fact that monitor brightness can be changed from the OS. That's when I developed the first version of Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) to adapt brightness automatically throughout the day... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow

  Author here! Aside from Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) all my apps over at https://lowtechguys.com/ are 100% SwiftUI. In my extensive experience, this is the only major disadvantage I found: UIs with hundreds of stylized elements can be too slow I suspect this happens especially because adding style to an element makes the graph deeper (e.g. Text(“”).shadow().colorInvert() means SwiftUI will add three function calls... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Apps that should be paid, but are not

  Volum for controlling DIY smart home devices from your keyboard. Source: over 1 year ago

Alfred mentions (6)

• Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

  I just use Alfred. Has clipboard history and so much more. https://alfredapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev

  Alfred (https://alfredapp.com) has a snippet manager (and a _whole_ lot more kbd goodies). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Need help switching from Windows to Mac

  I assume you mean Windows + R, right? Use alfredapp.com or spotlight. Alfred can do: Find apps & files. Source: almost 2 years ago

• .app vs .com?

  Like spectacleapp.com or alfredapp.com for example. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Here's my Alfred Workflow (Mac spotlight replacement) for navigating Perseus quickly

  I'm using Alfredapp.com's Mac Spotlight replacement to do this. Source: about 2 years ago