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The ideas from BinaryAge
Company blog · blog.binaryage.comprogrammingsystems
The ideas from BinaryAge is the company blog at blog.binaryage.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the author's account of running a one-person macOS app business, mainly TotalFinder and TotalSpaces. The comments mention its posts as background and do not judge the writing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Nice job. You've been an inspiration. Best luck looking for someone to take over. We've tried to do a similar thing, I was burnt out and we found another dev to take over: https://blog.binaryage.com/meet-steve-the-new-lead It didn't work out in the end. But at least I got 10 months of "recovery time" out of it. And that seems helped a lot. Maybe you just need a break for 6+ months and then you could return with rech…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Google already runs realtime crash reporting system, it’s called Gmail as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSelling macOS apps at https://www.binaryage.com . TotalFinder.app sales is what allowed me to work on my own projects full time. This is what I personally define as a success. I own 100% of my time and stuff I create. Since introduction of macOS system integrity protection sales have been poor. But luckily I made enough in previous years so I have pretty long runway to build something new. If you are interested how…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Finder alternative reuses tabs from Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCan you change workspaces without any animation (delay) with rectangle ? Or is just for tiling windows within a workspace ? I've been using TotalSpaces 2 ( https://blog.binaryage.com/totalfinder-totalspaces-future/ ) to change workspaces in macOS without the annoying animation which you cannot disable. Too bad TotalSpaces 2 does not work with Monterey or M1 macs, so I am really looking for another solution that can…
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on “macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux”Submitted On System Integrity Protection in El Capitan, OS X 10.11 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSlightly off-topic but anyone know what SCM tool is pictured in http://blog.binaryage.com/images/crash-development.png ?
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on “Google already runs realtime crash reporting system, it’s called Gmail”Prepare for sacrifices and it will hurt. You need to re-acquire your time back. That is your capital. We all have 24hrs/day, right? My story: I'm 31, I left comfortable game-engine programmer seat at AAA gaming company because I wanted to build my own products (have been already hacking on browser extensions during evenings for past 8 months). Had savings just for 3-4months. Reduced my burn rate by moving to a very…
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on “Ideas Without Time/Money - How Can I Make Them Happen?”
