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Lucas ✦

@lucaslove@chaos.social

Plant Mom.

Currently working on https://amore.computer and https://juststash.app.

On some days I work on https://macrowave.co, https://kompressor.app or https://pagi.lucas.love.

Previously: https://futureland.tv

Currently looking for new freelance opportunities.

Interested in Swift, E2EE, offline-first apps and tools that truly serve their users.

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Joined August 06, 2025

WWW:

https://lucas.love

Languages:

DE, EN, ID

Pronouns:

he/him

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@LucasLove

Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Steve Jobs demoing Core Animation at WWDC 2007. A wall of a hundred playing videos. Instant zoom. Instant tag search. No dropped frames. Comparing that to how a SwiftUI settings panel feels on Tahoe today just shows how far things have slipped. https://lucas.love/100/058

058 - WWDC 2007

058 - WWDC 2007

A Steve Jobs Core Animation demo from WWDC 2007 popped up in my feed and it stopped me cold. A live wall of playing videos, instant zoom, instant tag search, zero glitches, on 2007 hardware. Then I clicked around Sequoia for thirty seconds

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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#Amore is everything you need to self-publish your Mac apps.

OTA-Updates
Notarization
Codesigning
DMG installer image creation
Payments & Licenses

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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Alam is now available for pre-order. The whole app is completely free. No subscription, no tracking, no ads. https://lucas.love/100/039

039 - Alam Pre-Order

039 - Alam Pre-Order

Apple finally approved my nature sound alarm app, and it

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

My homie Alfredo recently demoed how LLMs actually work to a couple of friends. He made it easy to understand.

He now published it as a blog post.

https://alfredvc.no/blog/intro-what-is-an-llm

Do you even know how LLMs work?

Do you even know how LLMs work?

This post explores LLMs, the models behind services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The goal is to give you an in depth but approachable understanding of LLMs, how they work, and how they are trained. We will ignore some details, and provide simplified explanations where appropriate.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to on chaos.social

Had problems focusing today, and so this got way longer than I wanted, but at last I am rotating a 3D object in space. 📦 https://lucas.love/100/053

053 - Playdate 3D #3

053 - Playdate 3D #3

Part 3 of building a 3D renderer from scratch for the Playdate in Swift. Today the points finally rotate: we write a rotation function from the classic 2D rotation formula, build a proper Point3D struct, add translateZ(by:), and fight with

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

Why Your Mac App Icon Looks Too Big (and How to Fix It) https://lucas.love/100/038

038 - Icon Composer

038 - Icon Composer

Your app icon looks too big or gets stuck in macOS Tahoe

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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After a weekend fighting against Xcode and GitHub runner, it finally works and feels magic. If you ship your app outside the Mac App Store, this is going to make your life so much easier. You can now release new updates via git push or right from GitHub. https://lucas.love/100/035

035 - Amore + GitHub

035 - Amore + GitHub

I spent the weekend making Amore work for teams and CI environments, and the result is a new GitHub Action that runs the entire release pipeline for you. Push to a branch, hit run, and it builds your app, packages it, creates a DMG, notari

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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Really excited about the idea of #Amore powering CI/CD pipelines for teams. git push → new release Will be my main focus in July. https://lucas.love/100/032

032 - Making Amore Automatic

032 - Making Amore Automatic

Right now, publishing a Mac app with Amore means doing it manually from your own machine, which is a pain the moment you

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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A business customer emailed to say they could not buy my Mac app via the Mac App Store. Apple Business Manager cannot purchase in-app purchases. Your app is listed at $0, so businesses see a free app they can deploy but never pay for. Here is how to fix it. https://lucas.love/100/055

055 - Apple Business Manager

055 - Apple Business Manager

A potential customer emailed me saying they could not buy Kompressor. The app is listed at €0 on the Mac App Store and unlocks with an in-app purchase, and Apple Business Manager cannot buy in-app purchases. At all. That means every compan

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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Finally was able to finish this. Really happy with how this turned out. https://lucas.love/100/054

054 - Playdate 3D #4

054 - Playdate 3D #4

The 3D renderer for the Playdate is done! In this final part, I draw the wireframe lines, hook the rotation up to the Playdate

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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🐱❤️ https://lucas.love/100/034

034 - 🐱❤️

034 - 🐱❤️

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Multipeer Connectivity is pure magic. Notice how my phone is in airplane mode and not even connected to Wi-Fi.

The connection works both ways, but I didn't have another hand to click around on my Mac.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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I built a timer for the @playdate@social.panic.com in @swiftlang@mastodon.social. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs27ooAUbzk

I Built a Timer for the Playdate in Swift

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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37/100 Playdate DVD Screen Saver https://lucas.love/100/037

037 - Playdate DVD Screen Saver

037 - Playdate DVD Screen Saver

I built the classic bouncing DVD logo screensaver for the Playdate, in Swift.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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Today I celebrate being 33 days into my 100 videos in 100 days challenge, a third of the way through with a website and podcast update. https://lucas.love/100/033

033 - 33/100

033 - 33/100

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to on chaos.social

Here is how to use Amore's post-archive action to publish Sparkle updates right from Xcode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOhLYlneb8

Auto-Publish Sparkle Updates from Xcode (with Amore)

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

The third issue of »With Amore« is about the CLI reaching feature parity with the Mac app, the new licensing and payment system, awesome new apps and what's coming next.

https://amore.computer/blog/3/

With Amore №3 - Amore

With Amore №3 - Amore

The third issue of »With Amore« is about the CLI reaching feature parity with the Mac app, the new licensing and payment system with Stripe, and what

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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Totally forgot about #Monologue's ability to record audio notes straight from the action button. https://lucas.love/100/057

057 - Monologue Notes

057 - Monologue Notes

Yesterday I showed a shortcut for recording voice memos with Monologue. Turns out the app ships with this built in, and I forgot to mention it. Monologue exposes a Record Note control you can bind to the Action Button, Control Center, or t

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

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@marceloexc@im-in.space My parents recently renovated their living room, and my dad set up his 90s hi-fi again. I can’t describe how betrayed I feel by companies like Apple, Bose, Logitech, etc. The sound you get is dogshit compared to my dad’s 30-year-old hi-fi. Doesn’t even come close.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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Showing off #Macrowave, the internet radio Neco and I built last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjietBazxmc

Macrowave: broadcast your Mac's audio to anyone

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz Yeah. It's a very slow project, and I think that makes sense. It was faster in the beginning, but now it slowed down.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 10mo ago

`swift build` on my VM finally gives the CPU cores something to do. 🔥

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@mschwinges@mastodon.social I wish you good luck with App Review. 🤞 Please keep me updated.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @zhenyi@mastodon.social haha. Let's not do that and keep things slow instead. 🐌

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@zhenyi@mastodon.social That's what I noticed as well. It's a very slow project, but I am fine with that. When I ask new users how they found it, they often tell me that they have had it on their list for months or they got it recommended by a friend. I also frequently see users downloading Amore, but then not using it for a couple of weeks until they are ready to publish their app.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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Hey @mschwinges@mastodon.social, this is one of the exact reasons why developers choose to self-publish their apps. Notarization only requires the hardened runtime entitlement. Otherwise, you are free to do whatever you want. :) Which networking entitlement do you need specifically?

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@soapdog@social.soapdog.org what a kind thing to say. Thank you ❤️

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@sense@mastodon.social thank you so much. ❤️

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

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@lukaskubanek@mastodon.social one day.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@mschwinges@mastodon.social sounds like a cool idea. Shouldn't be an issue with notarization at all. If you have an hour, try to set up Amore. https://amore.computer/help/get-started/ Down to help you in any way I can :)

Get Started with Amore - Amore

Get Started with Amore - Amore

Get started self-publishing your macOS app in under 5 minutes with Amore. Set up Sparkle, configure signing, and publish your first release.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@kyle@mister.computer 😢

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

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@marceloexc@im-in.space Hell yeah! Enjoy! I am a bit jealous. Want to get my own some day.

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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Today I am showing Pagi, an app I built a couple of years ago to help me with my practice of daily morning pages. https://lucas.love/100/036

036 - Pagi

036 - Pagi

Today I am showing Pagi, an app I built a couple of years ago to help me with my practice of daily morning pages. Pagi is a distraction-free writing app built around the practice of daily morning pages: every morning you sit down and write

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@samhenrigold this is so hilarious! 😂

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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I programmed my iPhone action button to dictate a thought and drop it into the correct Things project automatically. #Monologue does the transcription. It just gets me. https://lucas.love/100/056

056 - Monologue + Things + Shortcuts

056 - Monologue + Things + Shortcuts

I capture ideas by talking. This shortcut takes whatever I say, transcribes it with Monologue, figures out which project it belongs to with Apple Intelligence, and drops it into Things as a to-do. All from one press of the iPhone action but

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Lucas ✦ @lucaslove@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@pasi@infosec.exchange I was just thinking about this the other day. This will be great for reverse-engineering apps and their APIs.

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