Closing the MacBook lid with an external monitor connected can turn off and disable the internal display. Let's figure out how macOS does that and bypass the lid sensors.| alinpanaitiu.com
An investigation into why the new MacBook Pro XDR display is capped at 500 nits, despite being advertised as '1000 nits sustained brightness'.| alinpanaitiu.com
When M1 Macs were launched, a new GPU with iOS-like architecture started driving the external monitors. This meant that the old method for controlling monitors using DDC wouldn't work anymore. Apps like Lunar and MonitorControl had to find other ways to change the brightness of the monitors.| alinpanaitiu.com
While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-publishing route.| alinpanaitiu.com