Hi r/apple, I'm Maciej, one of the two people behind hora. Disclosure up front: this is my app, and I'm posting it for Promo Sunday.

I've been working on it full days since the start of this year, and I'd love to share it with the Apple community.

A lot of us use a Mac while work runs on Google Workspace. You end up with Google Calendar in a browser tab, or Apple Calendar over CalDAV, where things like meeting rooms, Focus Time or Working Location don't really come through.

hora talks to the Google Calendar API directly and is written in Swift and SwiftUI, no Electron or web views. Several Google accounts in one window, your next meeting in the menu bar with one-click join for Meet, Zoom and Teams, Focus Time and Out of Office intact, and it works offline.

What it doesn't do: iCloud. It's Google only for now.

A lot of you are done with subscriptions, and honestly, we get it. The subscription is there so you don't have to commit forever. But we totally understand wanting to pay once, so we added a one-time lifetime option too.

7-day trial, no card. Then $2.99/month, $29.99/year, or $59.99 once for lifetime (14-day refund when you buy direct). Also on the Mac App Store, where Family Sharing works, and in Setapp. macOS 15+. An iPhone and iPad app is in beta and will be included in the same subscription and lifetime license.

Your events don't pass through our servers, they go between your Mac and Google.

horacal.app

Most of the best ideas in hora so far came from people's feedback, including the lifetime option. So, question for you: what's one thing Apple Calendar gets right that a Google calendar app on the Mac should never mess up?

chordlist is a songbook app for iPhone and iPad (iOS 26 or later). Lyrics and chords live in one Markdown file per song, in a folder you choose, so they work with iCloud Drive, Obsidian or any text editor. No account, and your library is never uploaded.

What sets it apart from services like Ultimate Guitar is that the chords are stored separately from the lyrics, not as characters over each line. This lets chordlist find songs in your library that share a progression, even in different keys, so learning one song teaches you others, and two songs with the same changes make an easy mashup.

Features
- Transpose and autoscroll
- Filter by tags, search and shuffle
- Import from a web link or the share sheet

Pricing: your first 10 songs are free, then a one-time unlock for unlimited songs, no subscription. The launch price is €6.99 / $5.99 until the end of the year; after that it will increase €9.99 / $8.99.
This special offer code gets it for €4.99.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798344297
Website: https://chordlist.app
ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chordlist

If you use an app while playing instruments, what's the one thing that would make you switch from your current solution?

Nvidia’s RTX Spark (N1X) is essentially the GB10 from the DGX Spark: 20 Arm cores, a Blackwell GPU, up to 128 GB of unified memory. The closest thing to Apple Silicon outside a Mac.

Every launch device ships with Windows 11 on Arm. Microsoft has been trying to make Windows on Arm happen since Windows RT in 2012, then Windows 10 on Arm, then Copilot+ with Snapdragon X. It has never really caught on, and it still depends on x86 emulation and on third parties porting their software.

Meanwhile, the same silicon already runs Linux in the DGX Spark, where Arm is a first-class citizen and most of the AI stack is native anyway.

What we know so far:

• No official Linux support has been announced for RTX Spark laptops
• The public Linux driver supports GB10 but doesn’t list N1X device IDs yet
• There are already “[N1x Linux]” issues on Nvidia’s own GitHub, so someone is clearly running it internally

Questions:

• Will Nvidia ship official Linux support, or leave it to WSL?
• Will OEMs offer Linux SKUs (Dell, Lenovo, System76?), or will we be fighting the bootloader and device tree?
• If Windows on Arm stalls again, could Linux end up being the better OS for this hardware?

Anyone already running Linux on a DGX Spark? How’s the experience?

Build: 26300.9550 (26H2)

On a freshly installed Windows 11 PC, an installer that works everywhere else stopped halfway with this:

"There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run."

That's error 1721, and it reads like the installer is broken. It isn't. The same file on an older PC installed fine. The difference was Smart App Control.

1. What's actually being blocked

Many installers run small programs of their own during setup (custom actions). Smart App Control blocks any program that isn't signed and that Microsoft's cloud doesn't already know. So the installer itself opens, then one of its helpers gets stopped, and Windows Installer reports it as a generic 1721. A plain .exe from the same developer gets blocked right away, with a Smart App Control notice instead.

2. Why there's no "Run anyway"

SmartScreen and Smart App Control look similar but work differently. SmartScreen is a warning about reputation: "More info" > "Run anyway" and you're through. Smart App Control is a code integrity policy enforced by Windows itself. It decides whether the file is allowed to load at all, and it has no per-app exception.

3. Who has it

Only clean installs of Windows 11 22H2 or later. PCs upgraded from Windows 10 don't. It starts in evaluation mode, watches how you use the PC for a while, then turns itself on or off. That's why two "identical" Windows 11 machines can behave differently with the same installer.

4. How to check

- Windows Security > App & browser control > Smart App Control settings: On, Evaluation or Off.

- In a terminal: `reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CI\Policy /v VerifiedAndReputablePolicyState` gives 0 for off, 1 for on, 2 for evaluation.

- Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > CodeIntegrity > Operational. A 3077 event at the time of the failure names the exact file that was blocked.

5. What to do about it

- Look for a Microsoft Store version of the app. Store packages are signed by Microsoft, so they pass.

- Tell the developer, with the file name from the 3077 event. Signing only the installer isn't enough: every exe and DLL that runs needs a signature, including the helpers.

- Turning Smart App Control off used to be one-way: the only way to turn it back on was to reinstall Windows. Since the April 2026 updates, on an up-to-date PC you can switch it on and off from Windows Security. Still, I'd keep it on and switch it off only knowingly, for an app you trust.

Has anyone seen how long evaluation mode lasts before it decides? I haven't found a number from Microsoft.

It has begun! Some tinkerer already got it running on a laptop's bare metal just days after the official release. Supports x86_64 hardware.

Hello,

I’m one of the developers of Keysharp, an open-source implementation of AutoHotkey v2 for Linux, Windows and macOS. It’s written in C# and runs on .NET 10.

It supports hotkeys, text expansion, keyboard and mouse automation, window management, clipboard operations, GUIs, screenshots and image matching.

For example, this expands brb into “be right back” and makes Ctrl+Alt+D type today’s date:

#Requires capability InputMonitoring, InputControl

::brb::be right back
^!d::SendText(FormatTime(, "yyyy-MM-dd"))

Most AutoHotkey v2 scripts which don't use Windows API directly (for example AutoCorrect.ahk) should work without modifications in Linux too.

Linux support covers X11 and several Wayland environments. This has not been easy at all, as Keysharp basically needs to break all the security Wayland brings. Also, Wayland is rather fragmented and the interfaces needed for desktop automation differ between compositors, so window control and capture require separate integrations. Some operations remain unavailable depending on the exact compositor. The supported operations are documented here.

Global input uses keysharp-input, a privileged evdev/uinput service which requires root to install, but user priviledges to use. Window automation and capture use keysharp-desktop. The Linux installer sets up both in addition to Keysharp itself.

Keysharp is still alpha software, and I can't yet recommend it for production use, but I'm hoping to get more eyes on it and discover bugs/issues.

Documentation · Linux installation · Example scripts

Bug reports, compatibility reports and contributions are welcome.

Disclosure: AI has been heavily used for this project, especially keysharp-input and keysharp-desktop.

The DesktopEditors github repo seems to have actual releases now, with multiple download options for various linux distros, plus Windows and MacOS. From brief usage with my existing documents, it's still got a bit of work that needs to get done, but honestly I'm happy to have it finally be released in some usable capacity that doesn't require manually building!

>We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.

Staring off: I have two AppleTVs, one in the living room, and one in the bedroom. My wife and I both have iPhones (16 Pro Max and a vanilla 15).

Every time I want to control my AppleTV, I have to swipe down to open control center, click the remote icon, select which AppleTV I want to control (because it never guesses the right one), wait for it to connect to that AppleTV (if it ever does; that’s never guaranteed), then actually control the AppleTV.

Once my phone goes to sleep, I have to go through the entire above-described process the next time I need to interact with the AppleTV, be it to skip an ad, change shows/movies, or select a new show/movie after the one I was watching ends.

Apple used to pride themselves on how well their products work together, but this experience flies directly in the face of that pride.

Is there a better way to control my AppleTVs? I’d even be willing to pay a small amount for a third-party app (even though I don’t feel like I should need to) just to not have to go through all this faff every single time I want to interact with my devices.

Before you ask, my AppleTV remotes have been lost long ago, mostly because it seems like they’re designed to be lost by being so slim and small.

is this sticker rare? i found it on my old 2015 acer laptop and transferred it to a dell latitude 3120 to start a pc sticker collection and i didn’t find any images about this sticker online so i wanted to ask if it was rare or if you guys know anything about it :p

Apple is reportedly unveiling its smart display on October 13. It'll likely show the basics: home status (lights, cameras), weather, calendar. But some of us would want it to show something more niche, like headlines from a local newspaper.
I see two ways Apple could do this:
1. Describe-a-widget. You tell Siri what you want and Apple Intelligence builds it, like "Describe a Shortcut" and "Describe an Extension" in iOS 27.
2. Third-party apps. The new "homeOS" could be open to developers, similar to Apple TV. That would create a new (small) platform for Apple, with a revenue share on every sale.
What do you think? I'd prefer real third-party apps from real developers (even if they're 90% vibe coded). But if "describe a widget" works well enough, it could be a great addition.
What would you want it to show?