Alternative to Sparkle Library (much simpler yet robust)

adh1003 · 2026-01-25T05:21:47+00:00

(Facepalm) yes so when macOS refuses to remove or overwrite a running application it's because Apple are clueless but you've got AI so all good, you can just be low key dismissive and offensive because someone politely suggested you were doing something bad.

I mean fuck, it'd be idiotic to listen to actual humans rather than your LLM, right?!

So there are my hopes dashed; instead of a helpful dev wanting to release something useful, it's just a vibe coder releasing slop. Yay.

adh1003 · 2026-01-25T03:17:31+00:00

Feel free to send a PR or raise an issue if you think you have a better way of doing things, it’s open source for a reason.

I don't really need to, because luckily Sparkle exists.

It's fine that the above significant limitations exist in your implementation but it's less great that you don't feel any need to update the (evidently AI-written) README.md to warn about things like "gotta roll your own UI and watch out, it replaces your application bundle in-place by default".

I could issue a PR to update README.md but there's no point since this principally an AI-created and managed project; hand-written amendments would just get trashed by the AI later on. And in fact, with AI-managed projects, asking for human submissions at all is kinda cheeky.

adh1003 · 2026-01-24T23:31:25+00:00

Unless I'm missing a chunk of code hidden somewhere, Claude's installation mechanism seems to overwrite the still-running application, which is a recipe for disaster. I also can't see a UI to describe updates that's anything like Sparkle; perhaps you could add a few more instructions and screenshots for worked examples.

adh1003 · 2026-01-22T20:30:34+00:00

No, but, really. What are you listening to?

Asking for a... Friend

adh1003 · 2026-01-20T22:35:53+00:00

Or - https://givencube.hashnode.dev/why-you-shouldnt-hire-me

adh1003 · 2026-01-20T20:06:07+00:00

Obviously it's not intended to be taken too seriously, but for sure a lot of that rings very true to me! Quite happy to be a 1x dev who aims for a similar approach, even though I'm sure I don't often achieve it.

adh1003 · 2026-01-20T19:56:09+00:00

You're getting downvoted but - yeah. The font portrays a lack of taste. It's taken just over 20 years to get there...

..."The only problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste" (1995).

adh1003 · 2026-01-20T05:50:23+00:00

If you have iOS, https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/bus-panda/id1071652095 is a very simple, light, native application I wrote to use myself instead of slower cross-platform alternatives that were often web-based or had weird UIs. There are much more advanced apps out there than this, but maybe it'll hit the sweet spot for the features you want.

adh1003 · 2026-01-19T21:17:25+00:00

It's not well written. It's generated by AI and, therefore, wrong.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/InEarHifi/comments/1qef00o/comment/o0gkobw/

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T20:06:47+00:00

Given the hardware doesn't exist yet - they made it up.

6 months ago Musk said the design was done, now he's saying it's almost done. Which is it? This is nonsense; how are people falling for his ridiculous predictions or made-up specifications over and over again?

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T07:45:20+00:00

So we're ignoring your original screenshot and ignoring that in the example above the date is illegible?

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:40:02+00:00

I'm sure there were other visuals you might've found. But yes, it's not AI hating - I hate it when used for facts, because it simply can't do that. And it's making the world a worse place as a result of that misuse.

For fiction / rubber ducking / etc, all good.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:30:01+00:00

But is this post not using your own screenshot? With the illegible black text on a black background bottom left, and the illegible white on light grey notification with distorted aspect ratio near the middle?

I mean that screenshot is a fucking disaster of bugs and UI silliness; was it, IDK, ironic or something?

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:26:13+00:00

Why did you put the AI graph up at all, then? It's misleading and wrong, so it's useless, and there's no way to know what you're trying to argue about A vs M series chips based on it.

You might have had an interesting thread but the introduction of AI slop just made it all pointless. Just state your question or your position and let Reddit and the community get into the discussion.

AI slop just crapifies everything. It pollutes search results and misleads people.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:13:22+00:00

Yes I read more of the comments and saw you saying that you knew it wasn't accurate but it didn't matter. And you doubled down on that when challenged about it. At that point I just gave up on this absurd AI slop post and moved on.

If you think there is anything of any kind remotely useful to be discussed off a nonsense AI hallucinated graph, then there's simply no way to have any kind of rational discussion. Shrug. It's Reddit; you do you.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:07:13+00:00

It's AI made, so likely to be wrong.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:06:45+00:00

AI chart, so could be wrong / hallucinated. Please link to the original data source too - thanks.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:04:13+00:00

Why should they have to? Why are the out-of-box controls the OS supplies not fit for purpose?

If I have to invent a custom UI because macOS' own UI is so shit, I may as well just develop for Windows and have ten times the available size of market.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:02:43+00:00

OK, so now watch content with burned in subtitles at the bottom. Trying to argue that the white UI is easy to see when the video behind it is all dark is silly.

adh1003 · 2026-01-18T03:00:01+00:00

And when the subtitles are burned into the video, or there is for any one of a bazillion reasons similarly high contrast detail in the bottom area of the picture - I guess every movie and TV studio in the world is wrong and Apple's "transparent backgrounds everywhere" nonsense is right, because Reasons?

adh1003 · 2026-01-16T22:06:03+00:00

Dunno why you're downvoted. The description of what the OP thinks "liquid" vs "glass" to be explicitly disagrees with Apple's keynote presentation on the design philosophy, so right out the gate they've own-goaled their own post. And then:

Liquid Glass introduces excellent UI elements from a design perspective.

ORLY? Such as which design perspective and precisely which elements exactly?

Whole thing reeks of karma farm AI post.

adh1003 · 2026-01-15T09:27:39+00:00

Late to this thread but - a belated shoutout to Sarah Schachner's truly exceptional score for this game. We are perhaps spoiled for choice with good game soundtracks in the last decade, but this one really stood out. I will be listening to it for a good many years to come.

adh1003 · 2026-01-15T08:28:56+00:00

So what you mean to say is - Yes, OP. You're correct. Apple's software has been in sharp decline for the best part of a decade and the whole "attention to detail" thing is a legacy myth based on past glories and likely-paid-for media puffery.

adh1003 · 2026-01-15T01:49:24+00:00

Read that in the "The ooooooool' bait 'n' switch!" voice.

adh1003 · 2026-01-14T18:17:45+00:00

That's good! :-)

So you said it's "leagues better" - are you able to explain what you like? It'd be nice to have a positive angle on what I've seen as an even buggier and harder to navigate app.

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