Lunar.fyi Reviews and details

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• Reverse Engineering a Software Crack

  It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Injecting%20a%20DYLIB%20into%20a%20macOS%20app The nice thing is that a signed app will refuse to load a dylib that does not have the same signature. So crackers will be... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• No I don't want 2, Emacs

  Pretty sure Lunar [0] can do this for you, and you can buy a lifetime license. [0]: https://lunar.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

  I've had good luck with the Lunar app - it manages my Dell and LG monitors on an M2. (No affiliation) https://lunar.fyi. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• PHOLED Will Transform Displays

  Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  I was comparing anti-piracy measures with DRM, I don't have actual DRM in my app. I can't block users that really bought the app from using it (which is what DRM is notorious for). But I do have a license verification for the Pro features (https://lunar.fyi/#pro), and that is what people are cracking in the app. I only added more protection around this verification. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  I believe in most cases, DRM would not exist if people wouldn't have started pirating digital content. We're also to blame for the state of things. Just like I would not bother to buy and use a bike lock if people would not steal bikes in the first place. It's a bad analogy though, like all analogies are, since if I sell my bike I can't make it stop working for the buyer at a later time. But that's the big... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness

  There's no Reduce White Point on Mac as far as I am aware. However, you can use the fantastic Lunar [0] app to achieve this, as it supports "Sub-Zero Dimming". To use it, I think you just need to start Lunar, and then press the Reduce Brightness button on your keyboard until it goes below the minimum Mac allows. [0] https://lunar.fyi. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

  As the dev of a macOS app that breaks all the time because of external hardware, the tone of the article hits close to home. (I’m talking about https://lunar.fyi/ whose brightness control commands can be blocked by USB-C hubs, “smart” monitors, too long cables etc.) I had to disable public GitHub issues on the app repo [1] because people seemed to fuel each other with spiteful comments and “why can’t you... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• I2c-USB-hub: An i2C Controllable USB 2.0 Hub

  Last year I bought a second computer for my music studio. I wanted to use the same set of 2 monitors and wired keyboard + trackpad on both machines. I wrote simple scripts to switch my monitor inputs with keyboard shortcuts (even simpler with Lunar, amazing new Mac app — https://lunar.fyi), which saved me from having to press annoying input-source buttons. But I couldn't for the life of me find a simple, suitable... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot

  Some people like the process of writing code, more than the end result. I had a few months of that feeling, but nowadays it’s rarely about writing for me. Just the other day I used Copilot to explain the disassembly of macOS KeyboardBacklight code, so that I can turn off the keyboard lights when using Lunar’s Blackout (https://lunar.fyi/#blackout) It even helped me generate the ObjC function signatures from... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  Lunar - Price: Free (optional premium one-time purchase) Menu bar app for macOS that allows you to adjust your display's brightness and color temperature. (Pro version also available.). Source: 11 months ago

• MBP16 M2 + Dell u3419w

  For controlling the real hardware volume of the monitor, you can try my Lunar app. MonitorControl does not work with M2. Source: 11 months ago

• How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries

  I use something very similar on https://lunar.fyi and https://lowtechguys.com but I wouldn’t call this “simple” anymore. They use Jinja templating, I prefer Slim (https://github.com/slim-template/slim#syntax-example) but it feels fragile. I’d rather pay for a professional solution. [0] https://plim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd/index.plim#L169 [3]... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• [50% OFF] Lunar Pro summer discount

  You can get 50% off a Lunar Pro license with coupon code SUMMER-BRIGHTNESS. Source: 11 months ago

• Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library

  One less known use case for this is creating animated UI demos, which as a dev I find harder to do using video editing software. I used it to create the simple demo on the rcmd frontpage: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd This is the code, where I'm just animating elements of an SVG I previously created with Sketch: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd/index.plim#L211-L379 But because Lunar's... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Display brighter-than-white color on Apple devices

  Lunar developer here, I also use this trick to showcase Lunar's XDR Brightness: https://lunar.fyi/#xdr (which by the way, was the first app to get this feature before Vivid took over with clever Twitter marketing) Some people will worry about battery and display longevity in the comments so I'll also leave some notes I wrote on this: https://lunar.fyi/faq#xdr-safe TLDR: yes, battery and LED lifetime will... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Achieved Desk Excellence (For Me)

  This might make it possible?: https://lunar.fyi/. Source: almost 1 year ago

• What Display to use with Mac Mini and PC with KVM SWITCH

  I have a Dell (u4021qw) that has a built in kvm using the buttons on the back of the display is awful. But it can be controlled via software. Dell makes a tool, Dell display manager, that you can set a keyboard shortcut to control the kvm. That software was kinda awful on Macs, so I switched to Lunar and that tool app works great. Source: about 1 year ago

• I created a macOS spotlight-like app that allows you to control your Spotify music from anywhere

  But damn, $49 is really testing the waters of highly priced Mac apps. Here I was thinking $23 was a huge price for Lunar v4 and nowadays I see $30+ apps priced straight from v0.1-beta. Source: about 1 year ago

• Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen

  A lot of people told me about this “chair EMI turns off screen” after I published my “weird monitor bugs” article: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird%20monitor%20bugs Curiously, I never had someone contact me through https://lunar.fyi/ about this problem so I could not include it in the article. But it is mind boggling how many people have this problem and just now start to realize what is causing it. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Maximizing macOS dev-setup security

  I was statically analyzing a crack of Lunar sent by a cracker to mock me (by static I mean looking at its disassembly, not running it). But because Lunar-cracked.app was on my filesystem, and because Alfred was configured to show .app files in the default results, I accidentally ran the crack when I typed Lunar and pressed enter, as it appeared first in the Alfred results. Source: about 1 year ago