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C.Y. Wong
Personal blog · mybyways.com/blogprogramminghardware
C.Y. Wong writes myByways, a personal blog at mybyways.com about programming and hardware. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on macOS sandboxing with sandbox-exec and on Apple's 7-day expiry for free app provisioning profiles. The comments cite these posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-apple-developer-account2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-01
What Hacker News says?
A normal user has full access to the kernel API. Always kernel info leaks, occasional easy exploits. On macos you can use Apple's native sandboxing. See for example http://mybyways.com/blog/creating-a-macos-sandbox-to-run-kod...
Comment linking /blog/creating-a-macos-sandbox-to-run-kodi
on “The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext”Submitted What I learnt shopping for decent computer speakers as a story · 59 points
HN discussion/usr/bin/sandbox-exec is still on macOS Monterey. It's not pretty, but you should still be able to roll your own sandbox rules and run any arbitrary app with it: https://mybyways.com/blog/creating-a-macos-sandbox-to-run-ko...
Comment linking /blog/creating-a-macos-sandbox-to-run-kodi
on “macOS Monterey”Submitted macOS zsh Configuration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe app will only run on your phone for 7 days[1] unless you pay Apple an annual fee, which is a non-starter if you want to write an app that you will actually use instead of merely test. No such restrictions on Android, Windows, or other platforms. Moto Sport 360[2] looks like it will fit OP's requirements. [1] http://mybyways.com/blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-app... [2] https://www.motorola.ca/products/moto…
Comment linking /blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-apple-developer-account
on “Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?”Are you sure you don't have a paid account? My provisioning profiles expire after 7 days (the app is still on my phone but upon launch it just crashes with a white screen) http://mybyways.com/blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-app... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36998956/why-does-my-fre... https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/47837 https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4hotx3/news_free... The wor…
Comment linking /blog/new-limitations-imposed-on-free-apple-developer-account
on “Apple is a traditional business”I recently had to use an x86 version of Linux on my M1Pro MBP, hence using QEMU emulation instead of virtualization. The system was barely usable, although I only had basic headless server/SSH requirements. Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow. There seem to be ways to u…
Comment linking /blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-with-docker-on-apple-silicon
on “Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64”