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Notes from the void

Occasional writing, mostly about doing less.

Seven posts in a year. There is no content calendar, no newsletter, and nothing to subscribe to — things get written when there's something worth saying.

Appreciation

Credit where it's due

Not posts, exactly — the shout-out shelf. Developers and companies whose work makes every Mac, and this studio, better. The writing starts further down.

Featured June 22, 2026

Builders that make the Apple ecosystem better

I build in good company. A standing thank-you to the developers and companies whose work quietly makes every Mac better — the kind of craft this studio aspires to.

The Eclectic Light Company

One of those rare corners of the web that makes the Apple ecosystem genuinely better. Detailed deep dives, consistently informative posts, and a trove of clean, no-nonsense utilities — all free, telemetry-free, and purpose-built. A truly underrated gem that keeps Macs of every era useful.

eclecticlight.co →

Titanium Software

Since 2003, tools that do one thing and do it right. Onyx remains the gold standard for safe, system-friendly Mac maintenance — supporting every version from Jaguar to the latest macOS, entirely free. No hacks, no nonsense, just precise control.

titanium-software.fr →

Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme

TinkerTool · TinkerTool System

A German software house that has known this platform since its NeXT roots — and it shows in the restraint. TinkerTool has been free for over two decades: it surfaces preference settings Apple already built into macOS, touches nothing outside your own user account, asks for no admin rights, and every change it makes is reversible. Nothing patched, nothing hacked, nothing left behind.

TinkerTool System is the paid counterpart: a maintenance and administration toolbox whose interface rebuilds itself around your exact Mac and your exact macOS version. Older editions stay in print for machines Apple walked away from years ago — upgrade paths and maintenance measured in decades, not release cycles. Software built to outlast the hardware is the whole point, and Bresink has been proving it longer than almost anyone.

bresink.com →

Apple Inc.

Credit where it's due: one of the most secure and privacy-minded consumer ecosystems around. The hardware–software synergy, the refusal to compromise encryption under legal pressure, and the consistent focus on privacy set a high bar — one these apps are built on.

apple.com →

Disk Recovery Done Right: CleverFiles - Disk Drill

Short version: a well-advertised recovery service took the job, handed back unusable junk, then quietly ignored its own 30-day money-back guarantee. Disk Drill was given the same drives afterwards — worse odds, more wear on the platters — and brought the files back. Then CleverFiles activated a license I had fumbled the payment on, without being asked. Every remaining disk in that batch was recovered too.

The writing

Posts, in no particular hurry

Arguments, corrections, and the occasional origin story. Written when there's something worth saying, which is not often.

For the record July 26, 2026

"Direct downloads are more professional" is not an answer

This one is a response. An app copied XScribe's concept — poorly, and needing permissions XScribe never asks for — and leaned its pitch on shipping a notarized installer, from a company rather than a single anonymous developer. So, on the record.

The shortcut is to hand you a notarized installer and describe it as professional. If an app could be sandboxed and isn't, that's a fair question to ask, and when the sales pitch leads with not being an anonymous developer rather than with the software, that's worth noticing too.

Which is the useful distinction when anyone hands you a download link: the sandbox can't grant what this app does is a real answer. Policy said no is a real answer. "Direct downloads are more professional" is not one.

Everything in the catalog ships sandboxed, through the App Store, and that costs months — ManPage could have shipped far sooner if I'd released outside of it. Two apps do ship outside the store, and both say exactly why: DragDealer can't be sandboxed, because reaching into other apps' windows needs the Accessibility API. LabsFX is fully sandboxed and kept out by policy alone. That's what a real answer looks like.

And about XScribe

Look at XScribe, the first speech-to-text translation app: always offline, sandboxed, and using the languages provided by Apple. Did we mention it's completely free and always will be? Not 'free while in early access'. Moreover, we paste directly into other apps WITHOUT accessibility permissions.

Using XScribe instead of a copy developed by a 'Delaware' corporation that tries to discredit individual developers not only makes sense, because it saves you money, but it helps me and thousands of other independent developers — real, genuine people who come up with great ideas that a company with an advertisement budget tries to copy and kill.

You have the power. There is no advertisement here. The focus is on the solutions, and the hope is that these will reach people organically

Everything XScribe does →

CARE TO EXPLAIN UPDATE July 26, 2026

The submitted quote that said "YOUR APP IS UGLY"

I am very grateful for every user, and your support actually makes a difference. Not to mention I read everything that comes in, regardless of the way it's written, and there's no channels/support teams, or hoops you have to jump through.

Someone submitted a quote through the void, but it was not an inspiratioNULL quote. It read something like "name:YOUR APP IS UGLY quote: YOUR APP SUCKS IT DOESN'T SUPPORT RUSSIAN email:TheresTooManyButtons". I couldn't respond to TheresTooManyButtons as it's an invalid email, but what I did do is remodel the application, reduce confusing controls, and add support for the Russian language, released an update less than a week after receiving this. Rather than ignoring it due to a variety of reasons one can justify, I addressed their concerns ASAP.

I said it up there but I'll say it again, it's a quality and genuine care, difference between a solo developer and shady company in a tax haven.
You have the power. There is no advertisement here. The focus is on the solutions, and the hope is that these will reach people organically

August 3, 2025

The genesis of nothing

In the beginning, there was the void — a vast, silent expanse of potential. This project is an ode to that creative vacuum: the blank file, the empty terminal, the cursor blinking at nobody in particular.

Origin story · 2 min

August 1, 2025

Why embrace the void?

The modern world is a cacophony of noise — endless notifications, streams and feeds demanding attention. The void is a sanctuary, and software that asks nothing of you is the closest thing to silence a computer can offer.

Philosophy · 3 min

July 28, 2025

The art of the glitch

Imperfection is beautiful. The flicker on the old site was a deliberate choice, not a rendering bug — a reminder that the machine underneath is a stack of hopeful approximations.

Design · 2 min

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