Introducing Despacer: Copy. Paste. In One Piece.I got tired of copying a command from Claude Code or Codex, pasting it into my terminal, and watching it fall apart. Those line breaks aren’t just visual wrapping. They come along for the ride. So I bOct 23 · 1 min readmattsenter.hashnode.dev
Introducing CommandH: Hide That Last AppI use Cmd+H to clear my screen. But on macOS, the last visible app refuses to hide. One window left, one more keystroke, and… nothing. So I built CommandH. It’s a tiny menu bar app that makes Cmd+H woOct 21 · 1 min readmattsenter.hashnode.dev
App Store 4.3 Rejections: Does Being First Give Apps an Edge?App Store Guideline 4.3 is meant to keep duplicate and barely differentiated apps out of the store. But an opaque similarity finding can also leave a thoughtful indie developer unable to explain what Oct 18 · 11 min readmattsenter.hashnode.dev
Weatherling Reached #8 in Mac App Store Utilities. It Started with Rain.On September 29, Weatherling reached eighth place in Utilities on the US Mac App Store. I had released version 1.0 on September 25. Four days later, people were downloading version 1.2, which had rainOct 17 · 3 min readmattsenter.hashnode.dev
Building Defensive SoftwareDefensive software is software that stays understandable when the environment around it misbehaves, not just software that validates its inputs. Comoji, my Mac emoji autocomplete app, appeared to breaSep 23 · 7 min readmattsenter.hashnode.dev
