Guides to Mac storage, and the occasional story from building a disk analyzer, from an indie developer.
Six steps ordered from safest to least safe: Trash and Downloads, finding what is actually big, caches and System Data, uninstalling properly, old device backups, and what to leave alone. 8 min read.
Read more →Finder list view, a Finder search by size, and a treemap disk analyzer, compared honestly. Plus the seven folders where the space usually hides. 6 min read.
Read more →macOS lumps caches, logs, Xcode data and snapshots into one grey bar and tells you nothing else. Here's what is actually inside System Data, how to look at it yourself, and which parts are safe to delete. 6 min read.
Read more →Sunburst charts look beautiful but hide small files. Why treemap and icicle views find space hogs faster on a Mac, with the perception research behind it.
Read more →Apple's Liquid Glass is beautiful, but .glassEffect() requires macOS Tahoe. Here's what it takes to build a convincing glass design system from scratch using only SwiftUI primitives on macOS 14+.
Read more →The treemap visualization I wanted didn't exist on macOS. So I built it myself. Here's the story of going from a side project to the Mac App Store.
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