Okay, just for fun, this dude put all his modern tools in an old-school macOS 9 style.
How would have the same workflow looked like with the tools of today and the limitations of yesterday. Unreliable internet, little disk storage, macOS 9 and much more.
Pulse takes a different approach, embedding into your app rather than sniffing the network, which can be pretty invasive. (Proxyman “basically performs a MITM attack to see your encrypted traffic.” ๐ค)
I get so annoyed when I find myself using random websites ๐คฎ or all different apps ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ to do things like format JSON, test regex’s, encode/decode Base64, encode/decode URLs, or convert Unix time strings.
This nifty little Mac app does all the basic things any developer regularly needs natively, locally, and offline. And it’s free if you build it yourself. Or pay for the official build. Up to you.
I came across the phrase “Mac-assed Mac apps” ๐ in this short post about Proxyman. Proxyman is a “Modern and Delightful Web Debugging Proxy” for the Mac.
Proxyman looks like a really nice alternative to Charles Proxy, which is very functional but drearily cross-platform app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Other examples are Mac-assed Mac apps are the Paw REST client as an alternative to the cumbersome Postman and Things as a true Mac-first app. And I’ll add Mail as an alternative to the crusty Outlook, which is slow to load and I just cannot use because it doesn’t support the standard Mac keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Clrt-A, Crtl-E).
What can I say, I just love these true Mac-assed Mac apps because they’re fun and easy to use. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Mental Break Town 