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Mac Apps
Native macOS apps built with SwiftUI — from FinderGit, a Git-aware Finder replacement, to Netfox, a privacy-first LAN monitor. Deep-dives on architecture, SwiftUI patterns, Sparkle auto-updates, code signing and notarisation, and shipping polished, no-telemetry apps outside the App Store.
8 articles Created Sep 2026
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8 articles • curriculum order
Part 1
Netfox 0.18.0 — is it my connection, or the internet?
There is a question that comes up every time something feels slow, and until now Netfox could not...
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 4 3 min read
Part 2
FinderGit 0.29.0 — open a commit like a folder
There’s a moment, reading a commit list, where you want to know one small thing: which files did that one touch?
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 4 3 min read
Part 3
Netfox 0.19.0 — what a certificate says about itself
Every home network has a few of them: the NAS admin page, the printer's web UI, the router itself, a Home Assistant box.
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 7 2 min read
Part 4
FinderGit 0.31.0 — Your tags and your releases, side by side
A new Release tab that finally says where each tag actually lives, linked worktrees as repositories like any other, and a detail panel you can read at a glance.
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 10 4 min read
Part 5
Netfox 0.23.0 — the devices that never speak
Netfox used to find devices by listening. Now it can ask — and the range you ask about doubles as a way to narrow what you are looking at.
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 17 3 min read
Part 6
FinderGit 0.38.0 — branches, without the terminal
Create, rename, merge, rebase and delete branches from inside the app, send any file's diff to Kaleidoscope with binaries intact, and stop losing buttons off the edge of a narrow panel.
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 18 3 min read
Part 7
FinderGit 0.39.0 — Your own AI key, a whole changeset, and the file that made your repo heavy
Bring your own provider for commit messages, send every change to Kaleidoscope at once, and finally name the object that made a repository heavy.
Giovambattista Fazioli Sep 21 3 min read
LatestPart 8
FinderGit 0.44.0 — Cleaning: get your disk space back
A new page finds the node_modules, build folders and tool caches your projects can rebuild on their own, and frees the space, touching only what is safe to lose.
Giovambattista Fazioli Oct 3 2 min read
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CreatedSep 2026
Last UpdatedSep 2026