This is a list of those tools, in no particular order.
Over the years I’ve gotten into the habit of condensing my toolset to the essentials. It is where I store my thoughts, track my progress, write, design, make music, and produce my work.
#Flotato for mac pro#
These days, most people use Flotato because it is extremely light (I mean, 11 lines of core code, right?), increases battery life, saves memory and doesn't hog processor time.A Macbook Pro is central to virtually all my productive efforts. And maybe that's fine, the whole thing that started the app is now an Easter egg. Or how many actually distribute the renamed app. To this date I don't know how many actually know they can just rename the app to magically turn it into a new one. And it's not the first time I reluctantly played a small part in creating yet another app store that shouldn't have been there in the first place. I had to make it easy to create the most common apps. Dieter on The Verge wrote up an early review, deeming it "devilry." People were literally ordering me to release this app. The second wave: We don't care about the namingįlotato was now on fast track to existence. My theory is that the video is so weird that people had to watch it, and the Twitter algorithm understood that this must be delivered to more than one million people, asap. I finished up my prototype, made a quick video and posted it on Twitter, relieved that I was now done with this idea and could move on.Īnd it kind of blew up. Allow the user to use the mobile version, and so on. The rest was details grab the favicon and use it as the macOS icon. Name the app, launch it, and you get this little perfect NYTimes native-like app: The first wave: What is is this sorcery In fact, here's a fully functional version of Flotato in 11 lines of SwiftUI: import SwiftUI Why on earth does this not exist? I mean, there are so many smart people out there. Over the years I've learned that great ideas come with confusion. "Rename app to launch the web site?", "Rename-able app"? The only thing was, I didn't know what to google. right?Īt the time, it seemed so obvious that I was dead sure that if I googled it, I'd find page after page of blue links to apps that do exactly this. Rename it "Youtube", and now you're good on conspiracies and cats.
What if you made the world's simplest browser by using the app's name as the URL bar. The elevator bounced as I stepped in and smashed the 2nd floor button. I just want to use macOS the way the macOS designers intended. Why isn't every web app a native app, too? I don't care how it's built. I have one million open browser tabs at any given point in time-most of them 2 or 3 or 5 times! That seems wrong. This question was a semi-answer to another question I had ben asking myself for years Most apps are web apps. I was standing in front of an elevator at work when I first thought of this bizarre question, or maybe more like a riddle: How can I make an app that doesn't know which app it is at compile time, doesn't rely on local storage, doesn't need an internet connection, but knows exactly which app it should become at launch time, on the user's computer?
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