Volum Reviews and details

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• 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

• Got my first macbook today. A 14 inch M1Pro. Tips?

  That's a pretty common scenario for me, as I may have 1 Xcode window, 2 Sublime Text windows and a browser window for working on rcmd, then another set of Xcode and Sublime Text windows plus some Hopper windows for working on 🌕 Lunar, then maybe Xcode, Sublime and Proxyman for working on Volum and so on. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

  Second that, Snapcast is great and the multi room feature is magical. Every friend that comes over lets out a wow when they hear the music synchronized in the kitchen, living room and patio at the same time. I also created a free app to control Snapcast with macOS keyboard shortcuts or from your iPhone/iPad: https://lowtechguys.com/volum. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Privacy first, open source home automation

  I’ve been using a Pi 4 with Home Assistant for the last 2 years, but I’ve accumulated so many devices in its dashboard that just turning a light off felt too cumbersome. Sure, I’ve automated everything I could, but humans are not predictable so I often need to adjust brightness or volume of some device. I had some keyboard shortcuts in BetterTouchTool using the HA REST API but it felt too fragile. In the end I... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant

  This project was the best thing I stumbled upon this decade. I have used ESPHome to create a wireless ambient light sensor that my Mac app (https://lunar.fyi/#sensor) can use to adapt monitor brightness automatically. Even non-technical users are now doing their own sensor with the tutorial I wrote: https://lunar.fyi/sensor I also like to use ESPHome for standalone devices like dimmable LED strings and IR remotes,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago