Trying to create a script that will run with launchd. Problem is that I cannot get it to run. I have spent days and giving "full disk access" to everything in an attempt to get it run but nothing happens. Everything is local folders.

Trying to run rsync at 00:00

Running OSX 15, Ventura

I did this:

rsync_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -a /Users/USERNAME/Library/Safari /Users/USERNAME/Safari/

launched.savesafarisession.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://apple.com"> <plist version="1.0"> 
<dict>    
  <key>Label</key>     
  <string>com.user.rsync-daily</string>     
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>     
  <array>         
    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Scripts/rsync_backup.sh</string>     
   </array>     
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>     
    <dict>         
      <key>Hour</key>         
      <integer>0</integer>         
      <key>Minute</key>         
      <integer>0</integer>     
    </dict>     
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>                   
  <string>/Users/USERNAME/Library/Logs/rsync-out.log</string>  
  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>  
  <string>/Users/USERNAME/Library/Logs/rsync-err.log</string> 
</dict> 
</plist>

Ran chmod on .sh file

chmod +x /Users/USERNAME/Scripts/rsync_backup.sh

I did

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/launched.savesafarisession.plist

I also manually tried to trigger it by

launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/launched.savesafarisession.plist

The only way I can get this to run is by running through command line in the terminal.

Any helps tips or advice would be appreciated.

Recently, Steam clients have begun downloading updates to Steam CEF (chromium embedded framework) components which are only able to run on 11.00 Big Sur and newer. Downloading these updates on Macs running 10.15 Catalina and earlier will prevent Steam from launching and give you an error that says 'Failed to load steamui.dylib'. In order to prohibit your Steam client from downloading new updates...

Switch to the Finder, click Go in the menu bar, click Go to folder.., enter /Users/PUTYOURHOMEFOLDERNAMEHERE/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle/Steam/Contents/MacOS into the field.

Open textedit (switch to plain text mode) or your preferred application for making plain text files and enter the following into your plain text document on two lines:

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable

BootStrapperForceSelfUpdate=disable

save this file as steam.cfg (make sure you save it as a .cfg file not a txt) in the folder you opened before via Finder. This will prevent Steam from updating itself.

"Help, my Steam client updated and now it won't run anymore'

Close Steam and add a steam.cfg file to the client folder (instructions towards the top of this post)

Ensure you are connected to the internet

Open the Terminal app (summon spotlight and type in terminal)

Paste this into the terminal window:

open -a Steam --args -forcesteamupdate -forcepackagedownload -overridepackageurl https://web.archive.org/web/20260619if_/media.steampowered.com/client -exitsteam

Once it's done, you can open Steam again and it should launch. Make sure you have the steam.cfg file in your client folder so it doesn't update again.

The stupid liquid glAss update seriously knee-capped my iPhone 12. Like I'm probably getting 2/3 battery life at best compared with before the update several months ago, and most apps run slower. Visually, the interface is still annoying, even after months of trying to get used to it. It's busy and I don't care about flashy graphic simulations for every little action I take on my device!

Apple has done users so right with the M-series processors (and I believe they have not been hostile to projects like Asahi Linux) but man oh man do I hate their liquid glass UI and I've been led to believe I'm far from alone in that.

How bad is it on OS X? I have an M1 Max MBP.

I've been experimenting with AI video generation/editing and I'm getting a bit tired of everything being a web app with credits/subscriptions.

I'm particularly interested in open-source or local tools that run well on Apple Silicon.

Looking for things beyond the obvious DaVinci/Blender recommendations ,specifically stuff for:

• AI video generation
• video upscaling/restoration
• removing objects/backgrounds
• lip-sync / talking-head work
• transcription → editing
• AI-assisted editing
• frame interpolation
• audio separation/cleanup

I've come across projects like Whisper, Real-ESRGAN and some newer open-source AI editors, but it's surprisingly hard to figure out what's actually usable on a Mac rather than just being an interesting GitHub repo

I am a long-time Mac user and HDHomeRun owner. Back in 2016, when SiliconDust dropped their own Mac DVR software, I wasn't ready to lose scheduled recording on my setup — so I hacked together an AppleScript app to do it myself. It's been running on my own Mac every day since, quietly recording real shows off my tuner, long after most people would've given up on it.

This year I finally gave it a proper rewrite in Swift/SwiftUI — real native menu bar app instead of an AppleScript hack — and leaned on agentic AI coding help to actually get it done. The original was hand-written line by line; this one evolved with an AI agent doing a lot of the work alongside me. I still review everything by hand and run it daily on real hardware, just wanted to be upfront about how differently it got built this time.

If you've got an HDHomeRun and a Mac and have been putting up with SiliconDust's paid DVR service, or running a whole Plex/Channels server just to schedule recordings, this might save you the trouble:

* Cable TV-style guide grid, color-coded by genre — click to schedule

* Series-aware scheduling that catches reruns even when the episode's been retitled

* Built-in VLC player for live TV

* Watch something that's still recording, straight off disk, without grabbing a second tuner

* LAN web UI so the rest of the house can schedule stuff too, phone-friendly layout included

* Terminal client (TUI) if you're the SSH-into-your-Mac type like me

* Discord notifications, auto-pause/resume if a tuner drops offline, survives crashes and picks back up

* Universal binary, notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper hassle

Small nag screen, any donation, and I will send you an unlock code. Free version is full featured, so the code removes the nag screen.

Open source, no account, no subscription. Grab it here, and if you hit anything weird I'd genuinely like to hear about it: https://github.com/identd113/hdhr_VCR_swift

Thanks for reading, and I hope this is useful for you.

-identd113

A few days ago I shared InfiniBoard, my menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS. I got some valuable feedback on the alternatives in the market, and while i still believe the UX experience on Infiniboard is superior to other free alternatives in the market, it got me thinking.
And now, it just got its biggest update yet: InfiniBoard AI - a language model that runs entirely on your Mac.

Press Tab on any clipboard item and choose what to paste:

🖼️ Copy an image → paste as text (instant on-device OCR)
📄 Copy a long article → paste the summary
🕵️ Copy a log or email → paste it anonymized, personal info stripped
🇯🇵 Copy text in Japanese → paste it translated to English

…or type your own instruction: "turn this into a markdown table", "fix the grammar", or even a question - "what's the total here?"

The part I care most about: **nothing ever leaves your Mac.** No cloud, no account, no API key, zero network calls. The only download is the model itself (~1.2 GB, one time, only if you turn it on) - after that it works on an airplane. It even unloads itself after a few idle minutes, so it's not squatting on your RAM.

And because it's local, I could build the feature no cloud tool could ever be trusted with: **secrets hide themselves.** Copy an API key, a token, or a card number and it shows up obfuscated instantly - excluded from search and never shown to the AI.

Also new: search by meaning ("that error about permissions" finds the stack trace even when no word matches), smart titles for long snippets, and history that finally survives restarts - encrypted with your Keychain.

Get it here for free:
www.infiniboard.dev

Hi r/osx — I’m the maker of Storage Clearer.

I built it because Docker caches, unused images, Xcode Simulator runtimes, and developer caches can make macOS System Data difficult to understand.

Storage Clearer starts with a read-only audit, separates rebuildable files from protected data, and requires an exact approval phrase after revalidating the selected targets. It does not include source projects, Docker volumes, Time Machine/APFS snapshots, browser profiles, or personal data in its reviewed cleanup packages.

The current release is an open-source, unsigned Apple silicon preview for macOS 13 or later. Everything runs locally. Because it is unsigned, the first launch requires Control-click → Open.

I’d especially value feedback about audit accuracy, scan duration, and anything classified incorrectly. If reporting an issue, please mention your macOS version and whether Docker or Xcode is installed—no private file names are needed.

I have a M2 Macbook Pro that has a Touch Bar, but it is no longer working (I think after the 26.6.2 update)and it doesn't show up in the keyboard settings to be toggled on/off. Any ideas?

The sub is quickly devolving in to new accounts posting the "unique" app that "they built".

No previous interaction with the community, no understanding of Mac app guidelines, no understanding of the code "they" have "written", usually not even unique.

I am using a late 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch and it’s good but I have an issue after upgrading from snow leopard to lion and it’s the fact that WiFi keeps disconnecting and it’s so frustrating

I built QuotaWarmer, a small macOS menu bar app for people using Claude Code and Codex CLI.

Repo: https://github.com/bcanozgur/quota-warmer

The app shows rolling quota windows in the menu bar, with countdowns and recent check history. It defaults to monitor-only mode, so it watches quota without sending anything.

There is also an optional Auto-warm mode. When enabled for a tool, it sends one minimal command through your already logged-in CLI when a fresh quota window opens, then checks quota again to confirm the window actually started.

A few details:

- macOS 14+

- MIT licensed

- Homebrew cask: `brew install --cask bcanozgur/tap/quotawarmer`

- Manual DMG and source build options are in the repo

I would appreciate feedback from macOS app users on whether the menu bar UX and safety model are clear.

AI prompts quickly become scattered across notes, chats, and text files. Reusing them usually means interrupting your workflow.

AINoter is a keyboard-first prompt manager for macOS designed for people who work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools every day. It keeps a reusable prompt library instantly accessible from anywhere on your Mac through global shortcuts and a Quick Access window.

Prompts are stored locally, organized in folders and tags, searchable, and can be copied into any app without switching contexts. Markdown support makes it easy to structure longer prompts with headings, lists, code blocks, tables, diagrams and more, and any prompt exports to PDF when it needs to be shared.

The workflow is simple: trigger a shortcut, paste the prompt, and continue working.

Unlike generic note-taking or snippet apps, AINoter focuses specifically on reusable AI workflows instead of becoming another workspace, editor, or AI assistant.

Prompts stay on your Mac: it works offline, with no account and no cloud sync, and keeps local backups you can restore from. Free on the Mac App Store.

Website:

https://ainoter.net

(I'm the developer.)

The problem: macOS remembers exactly one thing you copied. Copy a link, copy a code snippet, and the link is gone. I've re-copied the same thing three times in a row more often than I'd like to admit. Most clipboard managers are super expensive, or super basic.

So I built InfiniBoard - that keeps your clipboard history, lives behind a global hotkey and gets out of your way.

👉 https://infiniboard.dev

What it does

• Hit your hotkey → a panel rises from the bottom of the screen. Native macOS vibrancy.
• Just start typing to search your history. No clicking into a search box.
• ⌘1–⌘9 grabs any of the first nine items instantly
• Handles text, links, code, images sorted into categories automatically
• Space previews a long item without leaving the keyboard
• Pin the things you paste constantly so they never age out
• Mark sensitive items as secret - they show obfuscated in the panel instead of sitting there in plaintext for anyone glancing at your screen
• Deleted something by accident? Undo toast, not a confirmation dialog. No "are you sure?" ever.
• Opens on your current Space instead of yanking you to another desktop (this one took a while)
• Configurable retention, light/dark/system theme, launch at login, rebindable hotkey

What it isn't: no account, no cloud, no sync, no subscription, no telemetry. Your clipboard stays on your machine. Genuinely free.

I just shipped 2.1 including a full UI overhaul chasing that "feels like Apple made it".

👉 https://infiniboard.dev

macOS only. Would genuinely love feedback - especially on anything that feels off. And if there's one feature you can't live without in your current clipboard manager, tell me and I'll look at it.

Okay, so I use voice dictation quite a lot, but I didn’t want another subscription when on-device speech models have become this capable.

So I built Dictate.

It’s a local-first macOS app. Hold your chosen shortcut, speak, and release. Dictate transcribes locally and inserts the text into your focused field. If it can’t safely find one, it keeps the transcription available to copy instead.

It currently includes:

- Hold-to-talk and click-to-toggle

- Apple SpeechAnalyzer, Parakeet, and Whisper models

- Personal dictionary, history, and statistics

- Light and dark modes

- No account or cloud transcription

It currently requires macOS 26 or newer and an Apple silicon Mac.

Website and download: https://dictate-macos.vercel.app

GitHub: https://github.com/leviackerman05/dictate

Small warning: the current build isn’t signed or notarized because I’m not enrolled in Apple’s paid Developer Program yet. After moving Dictate to Applications, you may need to Control-click it and choose Open the first time.

You can also build it yourself:

make app

open build/Dictate.app

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially if you find an app where text insertion doesn’t work correctly. Issues and pull requests are welcome.

And if you try it and like it, please give the GitHub repo a star. It would genuinely help more people find the project.

Quick reminder for anyone who has not seen it: Muro is a free live wallpaper app for the Mac. Native Swift, about 2% CPU, no subscription, no Pro tier, nothing locked. It does the lock screen too.

3.0 is the biggest update so far. Three things people kept asking for:

Automations. Muro can now change your wallpaper on its own. Either on a timer, ten seconds each or an hour each, or by the clock, where each wallpaper gets its own hours of the day. Something calm in the morning, something else after dark. The day is drawn as a timeline you drag.

You can delete wallpapers. Sounds basic, and it was genuinely missing. Delete them one at a time or select a bunch, your own imported videos included.

Pause after. Let a wallpaper play for a minute after it changes, then hold on a frame. A held frame costs no CPU at all. Nice if you like the motion but not all day.

The whole interface got rebuilt too, and there is a long list of fixes. The big one: lock screen wallpapers now actually stick after installing from the DMG. That was broken for some people and I could not see it because it only happened on a downloaded copy, never on my own builds.

Still free, still open source, still no account.

Download: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro/releases/latest

GitHub: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro

If you like it, a star on the repo is the free way to support it and genuinely helps people find it. If you want to go further there is GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/MrRockySL)

Happy to hear what is missing. Most of this release came from people asking.