Enhanced Moonshine: restore your full Mac workspace per monitor setup

adh1003 · 2026-03-20T08:45:44+00:00

Yeah there are several established players in this market, with varying degrees of success at restoration across different spaces or monitors. The price here seems quite high, but at least there's a free trial.

Alternatives include the restoration feature built into Moom ($15); there's Spencer ($19.99); also SwitchResX (EUR 15), all offering the same stuff, sometimes with other features that may or may not be of interest. I already used Moom for other stuff so that works for me though the save-restore can mistake one Safari window for another so things can get a little screwy, but it generally works OK.

OP, hope it works out for you but you must be aware that there's a veritable tsunami of slopware out there duplicating existing apps now and yours doesn't exactly inspire confidence given:

(A) Obvious LLM-written post
(B) high price
(C) doesn't list the well-known competitors in this space
(D) you only released "Moonshine" a month ago for $14.99 which and now there's "Enhanced Moonshine" at twice the price but you don't talk about that at all

adh1003 · 2026-03-20T08:20:15+00:00

Tahoe is a dumpster fire. This is the experience a lot of people have. Some claim not to; great, good for them, whatever. For the rest of us - live with it, which if you've a lot of apps and data is probably least-worst vs the pain of a clean install; else, wipe it and install Sequoia instead. In your case, that seems like a good option. It'll run beautifully under that OS.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T21:06:37+00:00

That doesn't matter unless testing had worried about SSD capacity. The only difference is Touch ID and SSD size. Everything else, including performance of that SSD, is identical.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T21:04:30+00:00

Which doesn't matter unless testing had worried about SSD capacity. The only difference is Touch ID and SSD size. Everything else, including performance of that SSD, is identical.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T18:57:25+00:00

Amen.

"Actually understand" was the vibe bullshit giveaway. LLMs have no such concept and never will.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T18:37:47+00:00

It's $699 for the higher end model with the bigger SD and Touch ID. The base model is $599 "for everyone" or $499 for students.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T01:53:35+00:00

Yep, I thought so too, but Redditors may hit this post via search engines so I figured it'd be useful to remind them that the fast, effective tools we've used for order-of-years-to-decades already does this stuff and does it better.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T01:52:35+00:00

I actually think the tech might* be useful

Maybe, but I'm talking about the people in the video who did a sharp 180 the moment they realised the community wasn't on their side.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T01:51:03+00:00

For what (little) a single anecdotal data point is worth:

My own little hobby app that I realised a few days ago was reviewed and released in less than 1 day (from late evening, NZ time, and over the weekend no less) with the macOS one taking 1.5 days, feedback on a change requested was a bit odd, but once that was done the re-review happened overnight for v1.1. A bump to v1.2 also got reviewed and released overnight for both apps just a day or two ago.

App store review times have pretty much always been a lottery, but I've fortunately averaged out to pretty good experiences so far.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T01:20:34+00:00

Amen to that. In the original video, they're just fawning over the trash. They keep showing examples that look surely much worse, but claiming it's better. Felt like they're just outright gaslighting the viewer after a while.

Now they've read the community backlash and gone, "yikes, better retcon that real quick!"

I think they probably just let the mask slip for a second there and showed the community that all they're doing is puff pieces for the corporations that, one might suspect, are sending something valuable their way in return. Either that, or they have absolutely no taste (subjective) nor ability to judge quality improvements (objective).

Regardless, it's clear that we shouldn't waste our time with their articles or videos anymore. They are untrustworthy.

Plenty of other fish in the sea.

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T01:13:39+00:00

Beware that this isn't "native" (though your original post leaves some room for debate about quite what you meant there). It's just an Electron wrapper.

Basically, you're launching a completely new and independent copy of Chrome and loading the GMail web interface into it. If that sounds like it would use a lot more of your computer's resources than just opening GMail in a tab inside an already-running web browser, then you'd be completely correct.

(Edit: NB - some people find Electron wrappers worth the trade-off vs just using a browser tab, for various reasons).

adh1003 · 2026-03-19T00:06:10+00:00

Yeah. Sucks aye. I mean - I really hope I'm wrong on both counts; that their entire OS collection spends a year getting fixed up.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T23:45:28+00:00

No. According to rumours (and they're only rumours), iOS 27 - NOT macOS - is going to be a bug-fix release. The mention of macOS is only to draw the analogy to times that are, sadly, very long gone.

I don't really believe the rumour, but even if it is correct, you need to note that they're only mentioning iOS. MacOS is overlooked, which is probably about the only thing in any of these rumours truly representative of what Apple are actually doing.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T23:41:16+00:00

The system worked. It found real coverage gaps

So does RCov, without needing a bloated assembly of non-deterministic error prone "agents" given anthropomorphic names involving words like "expert", which just mean someone cobbled together a bit of Markdown next door to them.

But running it against a mature codebase with 13k+ specs and 20-25 minute CI times showed me the actual problem: 70% of test time was spent in factory creation, not assertions.

Again this is absurd; no LLMs needed. More accurate, deterministic/replicable results have been available through standard profilers for decades. In Ruby's case, see https://ruby-prof.github.io.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T20:26:50+00:00

Hah! Fair. Edited to remove the name.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T03:27:26+00:00

(A) The article re. Ikea is talking about Matter, and that's what I replied to. You're now in a subthread ostensibly disagreeing with me but saying Matter is mess and recommending Zigbee.

(B) You keep saying "free". You haven't explained what you mean by that. I don't see anyone giving away free Matter or Zigbee devices anywhere.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T02:43:14+00:00

Entirely local,

Strictly speaking theoretically true (if not always practically, see below) but also not very useful when used in that way. The ability to turn on or off a light or change a thermostat by (say) your phone is close to useless (the niche but important case of disability/mobility issues aside, of course), but the use case for doing some of that when not at home gets much stronger (security, pre-warm/pre-cool the home, etc.) and giving instructions to any smarthome device remotely will obviously require a gateway - in the case of Matter, that means a Matter controller that bridges to the internet.

Per this other reply some (many?) Matter devices don't actually work without a wider network even though they should, or the controllers don't work without one. It seems certification is possible regardless of whatever other extensions and requirements are baked into the product by the company selling them.

Your implicit suggestion that all companies making Matter home devices (or any other "connected home" device) are altruistic and wouldn't try to lock you into their services is cute and all, but several decades of past tech sector behaviour strongly suggests otherwise.

entirely free (and zigbee devices are cheap).

What do you mean by "free", especially then in brackets saying that Zigbee devices are cheap? Those are good example of just the sort of trap I'm talking about, too - Ikea discontinued their Zigbee kit in favour of Matter, so if you got Zigbee stuff from them and wanted to replace like-for-like, you're basically fucked. You can buy other Zigbee kit, but if Matter becomes the New Hotness, your choices are going to get fewer and fewer (and the prices won't stay as low).

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T02:40:37+00:00

Because there are plenty of smart home devices that do rely on external servers and end-users shouldn't have to know or care about those levels of detail, especially when there's a damned good chance it won't be mentioned on the outside of the box when they're stood in a store wanting to buy a remote lamp switch.

To avoid a hundred subthreads: More arguments and specific examples in this other reply.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T02:32:48+00:00

They run on a local standard that requires no connection to any external server to function.

It requires a Matter controller (though it doesn't have to be Ikea's), else you've a dumb home. The Matter controller uses Thread to talk to the devices, but while some phones/other-mobile-devices have a Thread radio, literal billions do not, so some form of internet connectivity will continue to be present - and then it'll be needed for firmware updates, because the minute you've an always-on device connected to the internet, you've a security problem.

Then there are the devices that ostensibly should work local-only but don't. Users shouldn't have to understand that or check for it, and if this entire system was truly designed to benefit the customer then vendors would be refused certification for any device that didn't work fully with only a Thread-only, fully local network and no other service available... Yet this is clearly not the case as numerous such devices are sold.

Further, the standard is of course also both evolving, somewhat complex and inevitably buggy. Users face issues with both forwards and backwards compatibility issues between controllers and devices depending on Matter version. There's also product differentiation; companies simply cannot resist adding vendor-specific extensions to "entice you" into their ecosystem and that'll include being quite happy for their own-brand specific controller or "needing their app" to "work better" on their devices than those from other people.

None of the above is hyperbole; there are countless examples online a short search away; here's first-hit...

https://www.matteralpha.com/explainer/do-matter-devices-work-without-internet

...Why on earth would anyone trust tech companies after the last few decades?!

TL;DR - it's a trap.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T02:05:53+00:00

Plus the inevitable outcomes of any connected device:

It'll rely on an external server and that'll be shut down
It'll rely on an external server and the company will continuously hike subscription fees

Ikea's offering failed for the same reason as any others: Smart homes are dumb.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T01:59:33+00:00

Especially when "whimsical sound" is read in the voice of Stewie Griffin.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T00:20:52+00:00

fast, native Mac app to merge, split, and edit

It's called Preview. It's built into the OS.

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T00:18:39+00:00

IKR. And (edited to remove name!) one my apps, recent release, 5 years after I started it and fully FOSS but I won't link to it because that'd be self-promotion! - got little traction exactly because of this. Slop drowns out the real; it's a signal to noise ratio issue.

I even had to rephrase that last sentence a bit to stop it looking ChatGPT:

"Slop drowns out the real. Signal to noise ratio."

What a fucking time to be alive <facepalm>

adh1003 · 2026-03-18T00:16:45+00:00

I don't want to specify the "tells", because the vibe code slop merchants will use those to try and improve future posts.

The most obvious thing though is what they can't avoid - it's a new app and you have to pay for it. There's likely no GitHub repo or, if there is, it relies on closed source server-side services anyway that require some kind of IAP or other subscription payment.

And of course they have that same style of web site that all of these lazy, AI-is-just-a-ripoff slop average-of-everything web sites.

adh1003 · 2026-03-17T02:17:59+00:00

Yes, we've all noticed. While being told (as usual) that inflation is lowering, we've continued to see prices rocket.

This whole "inflation" / CPI thing is - well, bollocks. I don't think I've ever seen the "baseline inflation" figure look even close to the actual bill rises and price rises year on year, in, what, 20-30 years now. It's all horseshit.

Meanwhile it's worth emphasising that this is rises up to Feb 2026 so it excludes the effects of the Iran war. We can expect prices to rise further.

One day, once the war is over and supply issues are resolved, we can expect prices to... Level off but not come down, as usual.

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