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Red Sweater Blog
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Red Sweater Blog is the company blog at red-sweater.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2008, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “Touché: Touch Bar for Everyone”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Red Sweater sells Mac apps to creative and productive people.
Most-linked posts?
- Touché: Touch Bar for Everyone3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
- Target The Forward Fringe3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-06
- Bit Hacking2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-21
- Getting Pretty Lonely (an anti-GPL essay)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-02
- Elements Of Twitter Style2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-24
- Venture Capital’s Biggest Fear2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-01
- Roundup of Crash-Reporters for OSX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-29
- Fix The Sandbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-18
- /marsedit/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-19
- /fastscripts/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-27
What Hacker News says?
Another I fondly remember is Red Sweater: https://red-sweater.com
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on “The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years”Submitted Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions as a story · 125 points
HN discussion> an Emoji keyboard accessory I can't tell if you literally think that's what it is, or if you're just trying to be dismissive. Emoji support in text fields is just one of the many things it does. It's a dynamic set of buttons that change depending on your task, and I actually really want it . I've been running a third-party app called Touché ( https://red-sweater.com/touche/ ) which gives you the touch bar in a win…
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on “Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?”Submitted I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Objective-C fixed that. as a story · 85 points
HN discussionTwo small additions: * cdto: "Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the front most finder window." * fastscripts: "Powerful script management utility." You can assign shortcuts to your scripts. http://code.google.com/p/cdto/ http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/
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on “Power user replacements for OS X default apps”Submitted The Mac App Store Debug Menu as a story · 54 points
HN discussionWhile we're on the subject of helpful deployment software, MarsEdit's Daniel Jalkut has an article about crash reporting for Mac apps on his blog: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/860/crash-reporter-roundup I haven't yet tried any of his suggestions, and since the article is from 2009, I don't know how much has changed. In any case, from experience on other platforms, I heartily recommend making crash reporting strai…
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on “Releasing Outside The App Store”Submitted Open Source Obligations as a story · 44 points
HN discussionDaniel Jalkut has posted his own take on the situation [1]. I appreciate it, because whenever these situations pop up, they quickly devolve into "tech is full of unprofessional assholes" versus "stop being such a baby". He also provides some background for why the session was done that way in the first place. [1] http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2266/how-to-talk-dirty
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on “Open letter to the Mac/iOS dev community regarding conduct”Submitted Getting Pretty Lonely (an anti-GPL essay) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSigh, you're just not getting it, sorry to say. I have NO TROUBLE imagining that Apple will continue to tighten the screws on this, enforcing signing through Developer TOS and requiring MAS apps to pay for distribution certs. Direct download isn't going away, not after all the work that's gone into securing it, but if you think you can sell an app off your own site without giving Apple some identifiable info about w…
Comment linking /blog/514/development-phase-code-signing
on “BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS”Submitted The Sandbox’s Big Red Button as a story · 11 points
HN discussionBy mid 2014, I expect Apple to sell retina versions of all of their laptops. It is still some ways off, but then when will you adapt your site for retina? When 20% of your market has retina laptops? By then, you have established to that 20% that you don't care about polish[1]. Especially for developers, they are that much less likely to recommend you to their friends. You can find (someone else's) better argument al…
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on “Sucking at Retina”Submitted Tweet Quality as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe ugliness in the WordPress community over themes and plugins. http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely
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on “TagSpaces – Open-source personal data manager”Submitted Apple has stopped updating its Downloads service for 3rd party Mac apps as a story · 9 points
HN discussion#3 is allowed by DCM. Besides #2 and #6, all of those other features could probably be layered onto DCM with FastScripts (free for up to 10 global hotkeys, http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/ ) and some trivial little AppleScripts, certainly nothing that couldn't be done in half an hour by anybody reading this site. I think $5.50 is overkill for a system utility with some trivial extra shortcuts and visual enhan…
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on “Color Snapper: "The missing color picker for Mac OS X"”Submitted Information Wants To Be Everywhere as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn case you missed it, Jeff replies in the comments: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1078/open-source-obligations... I think the moral of the story is, "Don't feed the troll". I'm not sure if Jeff is deliberately provocative in his posts, but many of them do turn out that way, and you can bet he gets a lot of ad revenue from the publicity.
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on “Open Source Obligations”Submitted Can't Catch Me as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe article only points out the double integer registers that AArch64 brings to the table. What interests me more are the doubled FP registers available to SIMD instructions. Would all of the image processing that is done automatically by the new camera software in the 5S have even been possible without this added performance? I suspect this is a benefit of AArch64 that can be directly linked to a specific user expe…
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on “Apple’s iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question”Submitted Touché: Touch Bar for Everyone as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWordPress is something that would exist in another form if not for Matt Mullenweg. There have been plenty of competing projects. Thanks to good timing WP became the one that a lot of different people contributed to, turning a small project into an 800 pound gorilla. Despite this, Matt Mullenweg and Automattic has used the copyright and trademark to assert and maintain control over it. Some agree with the leadership,…
Comment linking /blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely
on “WordPress is not WordPress.com”Submitted Tumblr – The Harder They Fall as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOn MacOS X, I used to use a program called MarsEdit. See http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
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on “Ask HN: can one post to a blog without opening a browser?”Submitted One type of Defensive coding versus Don't coddle your code as a story · 6 points
HN discussion...experts puzzle over benefit of 64-bit functions Let's try to enumerate whatever we can think of: The most commonly mentioned one is addressing 4GB of memory and larger, which doesn't apply to the 5S. (It's my understanding that it only contains 2GB). So that one is rightfully dismissed. Well, other than that you get more benefit from ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) with a 64bit virtual address space. St…
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on “Samsung will go 64 bit - what about Android?”Submitted Roundup of Crash-Reporters for OSX as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI use MarsEdit ( http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ ), though I'm probably not a good reference as I haven't updated my blog in awhile and I have over 20 draft blog posts (some have been sitting around for more than 10 months).
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep track of blog posts you keep meaning to write, but don't?”Submitted Pain Is A Gift: why iPhone/iPad fans should be thrilled by news from Google as a story · 5 points
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