mgrunwald_Mar 30

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

https://www.mgrunwald.com/ghostmoon/

Ghostmoon.app - The essential powertool for macOS.

Every feature you need. Two clicks away. The essential powertool for macOS.

Show threadctmntMar 30

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard.

I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month, and the yearly developer account fee seems minor in comparison

Also, it’s just such a bad security precedent. This page describes the error you get as “the typical macOS Gatekeeper warning”, as though it were just another piece of corporate silliness, like clicking through a EULA.

Show thread71bwMar 30

The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil.

It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

Show threadjacobrastMar 30
So that you don't accidentally run malware. MacOS is not iOS, you can run unsigned code if you really want to, but it will make you jump through a few hoops.
Show thread71bw
How is this better than trying to eliminate the problem between the keyboard and the computer? The user won't learn if the computer handholds them through everything.
Mar 30 at 12:35pmWeb
Show threadanamexisMar 30
Because the vast majority of users have no interest in learning how to safely vet apps and just want to easily use their computers and not worry about malware.
Show threadalsetmusicMar 30

> The user won't learn

Full stop. I still talk to people every working day who don't realize that rebooting a computer is actually a real troubleshooting step. They seem to think it's bunk tech support mumbo jumbo rather than a genuinely useful step. It's 2026 and they're still surprised when that works.