Marc Hildmann

Apple approved ColumnLens for the Mac App Store. It's built with Dear ImGui and C++. Pretty sure it's one of the first ImGui apps on the store. Wrote up what the process looked like: marchildmann.com/blog/imgui-mac… #imgui #dearimgui #cpp #macOS #indiedev #buildinpublic

@_rabbi Okay. Me in the jungle.

is claude down? did mythos break prod?

Hi hi, Dear ImGui 1.92.7 is released! 50+ changes (e.g. tables reworked columns freezing with hidden columns, reorder from context menu, webgpu for emscripten 5 & wgvk native, nav keyboard/gamepad to open context menus, & many fixes/improvements) github.com/ocornut/imgui/…

@fiveoutofnine I'd love to see MacBook Neo 8 GB results.

Introducing whatcani.run Find the best local models based on real data 1. People run and submit benchmarks 2. Stats aggregated over models / devices 3. Find the best model for you `npx whatcanirun`, fully open-source

@SMT_Solvers @ollama Same here and happy with the performance.

@ollama I already switched to raw llama.cpp

Ollama is now updated to run the fastest on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework. This change unlocks much faster performance to accelerate demanding work on macOS: - Personal assistants like OpenClaw - Coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex

@aisurvivallog MultiHop-RAG (2,556 queries) TextLens: 0.771 Hit@10 | bge-large (335M): 0.769 | voyage-02 (cloud): 0.819. Beats bge-large overall. Beats voyage-02 on comparison queries. The gap is only in inference queries where you need deep semantic reasoning.

25 MB local RAG with sub-second answers — that's the kind of constraint-driven building more people need to see. We're running a full AI company on $100 total budget. Constraints force the best architecture decisions. What's your retrieval accuracy like vs cloud RAG on the same docs?

I dropped the TurboQuant paper into my app and asked it questions. No upload. No cloud. No subscription. Just my Mac, a custom 25 MB RAG engine, and answers in under a second. Follow along. #TurboQuant #BuildInPublic #LocalRAG #Privacy #AI #Defense #Government

@bengi_dev @jacobtechtavern I recently shipped a C++ app with a very small Obj-C bridge. My benchmark: my app appears even before the dock icon finished the first jump 😅

@jacobtechtavern Should we back to obj-c?

Is Apple giving up on SwiftUI? Maybe: Mastodon went wild recently over a rumour shared by Steve Troughton-Smith: “I have heard that SwiftUI has been losing political capital, and credibility, internally at Apple because it has repeatedly failed to meet software engineering goals, and needs. It’s no longer thought of as the clear default choice for new stuff. That might explain why it was deemphasized at WWDC compared to the past few years.” Spicy stuff. I look forward to the next edition of "Apple’s internal use of SwiftUI" by Alexandre Colucci. We can cross-reference whether this rumour is substantiated by seeing whether the SwiftUI usage has plateaued across the internal iOS binaries. Read the ultimate scientific performance comparison right here 🧪 blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/swiftui-vs-u…

@oliviscusAI This is cool! I already started to wrap my head around for possible use cases

Someone built a Chromium browser that runs entirely in your terminal. It's called Carbonyl, and it renders actual web pages in your command line. The best part is it runs with 0% CPU usage when idle. - Full Chromium engine in the terminal. - dles at exactly 0% CPU. - Fast, lightweight, and completely terminal-native. 100% Open Source.

Spent the morning putting together a case study on analyzing healthcare data with ColumnLens. CDC mortality stats, CMS Medicare records, SQL queries, charts. All running locally on your Mac. columnlens.com/industries/med… #IndieDev #HealthData #SQL #MacOS

@SaidAitmbarek @MicroLaunchHQ Thank you so much!

@Hilti dope dataviz work mate, upvoted feel free to launch on @microlaunchhq too we get 30k+ makers/mo on the app

21K views and 120 bookmarks on my write-up about getting an ImGui app on the App Store. It means a lot to me. The AppStore numbers are unfortunately not there yet. Will share ASAP. #buildinpublic #indiedev #producthunt Today it's live on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/colum…

24K impressions, zero sales. Classic indie dev moment. Let's think different: I'm giving away 10 free copies of ColumnLens. Reply with your biggest pain point working with large data files and I'll pick 10 people and DM you a code. All I ask: leave an honest App Store review.

Apple approved ColumnLens for the Mac App Store. It's built with Dear ImGui and C++. Pretty sure it's one of the first ImGui apps on the store. Wrote up what the process looked like: marchildmann.com/blog/imgui-mac… #imgui #dearimgui #cpp #macOS #indiedev #buildinpublic

23K views. 400 clicks. 1 sale. This is fine. 🔥 #buildinpublic

@TVanWelsenes @Guronnimo Cool name! I guess it's "blueprint" in dutch?

Just launched blauwdruk.design 🚀 with @Guronnimo We kept seeing the same problem: small businesses dealing with designers, developers, hosting, SEO… all separate, all a hassle. So we built a one-stop shop. From brand design → to a high-converting website → to hosting, maintenance, and SEO. Everything connected. Everything handled. One contract. Zero hassle. Want to learn more? DM or msg👇 #blauwdruk #building

@DanielcHooper This looks super smooth - I love it! Have you tried CoreGraphics before?

I redesigned my build profiler's timeline. It now uses more features of my custom C UI library, still renders the llvm build (95,000 processes) at 120hz+, and better visualizes the relationship between a process and its child processes.

@TVanWelsenes I can't wait to see the AppConnect numbers tomorrow. Hopefully my app get's some downloads. Will share the results here. 🙏🏻🚀

@Hilti Awesome Marc! Thanks for sharing, you got this buddy

Man, being a reply guy on X really pays-off! On day 6 of my daily consistent post strategy (minimal 20+ replies per day and 3 daily posts about my projects). In the last 24 hours kicked it into next gear, replied over 300 times and connected with many awesome builders! thanks for all the support everyone! 🙏 let’s keep building!🚀

@PrometheusCodes Thank you! You made my day 😃🤘🏻 I bought a SGI Indigo 2 a few years ago just to get the look and feel of the IRIX 6.5

@Hilti Looking like some Jurassic Park OS type shit. Cool.

@geooot_ I'm not 100% sure about this. I avoided the issue entirely by only using permissively licensed deps. The amazing Dear ImGui by @ocornut is MIT licensed. Same goes for DuckDB @duckdb

@Hilti does that mean you cant distribute an app on the app store that depends on GPL dynamic libraries?

@_avdept I believed Apple is very strict about apps that do not follow their interface guidelines. That's always been my biggest headache until I simply tried.

@Hilti i dont think apple has anything to do to reject any rendering lib for macos, it was usually ios related issue but thanks for sharing, just found out about imgui

@ocornut Thanks @ocornut for giving me the link to DefleMask Tracker ... now my focus for today has shifted 😅 What a gem!!!

@Hilti Nice! While I don't have a list, it's likely there are several more apps on the App Store. I can think of DefleMask Tracker apps.apple.com/fr/app/deflema… & apps.apple.com/us/app/waver-d…