Stories by jsattler

How not to fork an open source project

The Dress: Blue or White? (2015)

Service Down? Your Notch Will Tell You

Show HN: Pulse – a beautiful service monitor that lives in your notch

How to Be Bored

Show HN: Boredom Challenge – Test and Improve Your Boredom Tolerance

Show HN: BetterCapture – free and open source screen recorder for macOS

The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power

Show HN: A macOS screen recorder for the rest of us – free and open source

Show HN: I built a free, open-source macOS screen recorder with modern features

Agentic Productivity System with Plain Markdown

Ask HN: How many hours do you work per week?

Thoughts on AI-assisted software engineering (2026)

Show HN: I built a Firefox/Zen extension to help you get shit done

Show HN: Watts Up – a bike trainer-powered, arcade browser game

Show HN: ZeroDistraction – A Firefox extension that blocks distracting websites

Show HN: A Firefox extension to avoid distractions

Show HN: A Firefox extension to stay focused

How did he do that? [video]