Sandwich Proxy - A developer friendly, free burp-like proxy

Hey folks, I made a local proxy app for Mac - Sandwich Proxy (website). It is a proxy that can export requests as curl and detect secrets, pretty similar to Burp and to chrome developer tools but it can sit between requests and do MITM TLS intercept.


Burp is great but too expensive for my limited usage. Wireshark and macros are too complex.

I've built sandwich to help me on red team exploration for apps and at my own development cycle and as part of my journey to learn Swift and SwiftNIO.


The security alerts feature is inspired on another project of mine, https://github.com/gleicon/mcp-osv which is a plugin to assist teams using Ai Copilots to have their repo checked by vulnerabilities and credentials at development time.

Sandwich is geared at production and deployed apps but can serve a similar purpose.

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"Adopting" apps into Homebrew - Is it worth doing?

I use a lot of mac apps and very often after I install a new one via a .dmg file or something like that, Cork and Updatest prompt me to adopt them with homebrew.

What's the point of doing that? Is there still any good reason to do it. Updating tools like Updatest have become "agnostic" about how you installed your apps, in most cases, it seems like.

For context, my setup: M3 Max 16 inch MacBook Pro with macOS 26.2

https://redd.it/1puqk3z
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QSpace Pro Users - Are You Blocking Access To Their Servers in China?

I use QSpace Pro ("QSP") and I also use Little Snitch.

Being a bit obsessive about security, I normally block QSP from accessing QSP's servers in China but it's a wee bit of a nuisance because I have to temporarily unblock that in order to check for updates.

How do other QSP users handle this?

https://redd.it/1puqvzx
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Need tips to easily migrate from Raindrop.io to Anybox

As noscript says, I decided to move away from Raindrop after experiencing performance issues. I became hit or miss whenever I tried to save a bookmark. So I have been trying Anybox for a week now, and found it to be super polished, visually appealing and more importantly, doing the 1 thing I wanted to do with precision.

I think I missed the BF sale on Pro, but tbh I don‘t know whether I need it or not. so maybe I buy LT if I need it next year.

Does anyone know of any easy migration tips/tricks to move my saved data from Raindrop to Anybox? Any help is appreciated 😉

Edit: I have around 600 saved links so doing it manually is actually hard 😅

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Let It Snow Desktop App - App Store [FREE, NO SUBS]
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/let-it-snow-desktop/id6755482420?mt=12

https://redd.it/1pv09xc
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Bookmark Manager that archives webpages & videos

Hello! I am looking for a bookmark manager or pkm app that allows me to give it a url of a website and it will create a copy of that website. I know a lot of bookmark managers already do this, but I am looking for something that also works well with YouTube videos if possible.

https://redd.it/1pv152d
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Created a Free & Open-source Floating App widget with Focus/Pomodo Timer. In case someone has any use for this.

Hey there, wanted to share Madda Floating Clock and Pomodo/Focus Timer with you all.
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I have a 55" OLED TV screen as my main monitor and couldn't look at the very top to see the time. Also needed a floating focus timer app to tally how much time I spent working each day.

It's very customizable and remembers the position you set it in for each monitor setup. Also compared to Dato, it can be moved to be next to the dock.

I didn't find anything that fit my requirements exactly so decided to create my own. Hope someone finds this useful and please feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it.

Open to feedback so please let me know if you're missing a setting or have a usecase that's not supported currently so I can add it.


It's coded with Claude Opus but I guided it a lot and checked every line and wrote some parts by hand (so it's not "vibe coded", more like "agentic coded")

Also it shows the day name and number in the menu bar.

Instructions to install it are in the readme on Github.

https://github.com/maddada/MaddaFloatingClock


Hope the admins don't mind I didn't sign it because I don't want to pay $99 for a dev license.



Screenshots (with optional timers shown - can be disabled):

Pomodoro timer \(click on the clock to show it or hide it\)

Focus timer \(click on the timer to pause it, click on the clock to accumulate focus time for the day\)

Almost everything about the clock can be configured


Thank you



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Best CD player?

Im looking for a CD player that has gapless playback and a good UI and runs on macOS 13. Any recommendations please? Thanks.


Also burning and ripping doesn't matter too much. Maybe it does but not as much as listening.

https://redd.it/1pv3sqk
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End of the year 50% discount special for My Wellness Framework Templates for Apple Notes- use "WELLNESS50" at checkout - valid till end of year.

https://redd.it/1pv13wq
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OptiLoad *Lightning Fast, Ultra Lightweight Native SwiftUI Download Manager for MacOS Sequoia + (Apple Silicon Only)*

https://preview.redd.it/e1sze7ud5a9g1.jpg?width=1656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cca15d660528655537540ab56dd1ed40d3bbb6e

***\*\*My second app after*** [***OptiMac***](https://github.com/VonKleistL/OptiMac)***\*\****
***\*\*Free and open source\*\****
***\*\*I am the developer\*\****

LINK: [OptiLoad](https://github.com/VonKleistL/OptiLoad/tree/main)

\> Written in Native SwiftUI

\> Sits in Menu Bar and Browser extension intercepts downloads automatically

***\*\*Currently awaiting Mozilla Team to sign off on the .xpi, however Chromium Based Browsers are optimal\*\****

\> Approximately 3-6x faster than standard browser download (based on my testing with Firefox and Chromium based <Helium>

***\*\* Who does this appeal to?\*\****

\> To be honest, I never intended to release this as I wrote it for myself after tiring of apps like FDM, FOLX etc (as good as they are) eating a tonne of resources where I feel they didn't have to.

\> [OptiLoad](https://github.com/VonKleistL/OptiLoad/tree/main) (I feel) will be for the average user that wants things to simply be faster when downloading and "just work" without having to monitor constantly, confirm, cleanup downloads etc.

***\*\*Instructions for use\*\****

1: Download .dmg from [Releases](https://github.com/VonKleistL/OptiLoad/releases/tag/OptiLoad) page
2: Chromium based browser users also download `ChromeExtension.zip`

***\*\*As mentioned Firefox based browser users (myself included) are only waiting on Mozilla Team to sign off on extension\*\****


3: Install .app from the .dmg you downloaded (Only requires access to downloads folder)
4: Unzip and save the `ChromeExtension` folder
5: In your browser got to: Extensions > Manage Extensions > Ensure Developer Mode is on (usually top right hand side) > Select Load Unpacked > Select your saved ChromeExtension folder
6: Open OptiLoad.app
7: Enjoy :)

If anyone has feedback of any sort, it is always welcomed. This is a great community and all ideas are welcomed.

Have a wonderful Holiday break and a fantastic New Year! 🎉
\- VonKleistL

https://redd.it/1pv5wgh
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Christmas Gift - Lumina (AI Wellness Coach) is FREE for our Beta Testers
https://redd.it/1pv989o
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[Safari Extension Sale] Dark Reader for Safari ($4.99→$1.99) (All-time low for MAS, Universal (Mac, iPad and iPhone), Supports Family Sharing)
http://apps.apple.com/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id1438243180

https://redd.it/1pv9rav
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BrewServicesManager – A menu bar app for managing Homebrew services

Built a simple macOS menu bar app to manage Homebrew services without using the terminal. Most existing tools felt stale or unreliable, so created this.

It simply does what `brew services` intended to do:

* Start, stop, and restart services from the menu bar
* See the status of all brew services at a glance
* Auto-refresh with a configurable interval

I made it for myself because I was tired of running `brew services` in the terminal. Plus I wanted to try SwiftUI. If you try it, I’d love your feedback.

GitHub: [https://github.com/validatedev/BrewServicesManager](https://github.com/validatedev/BrewServicesManager)

https://redd.it/1pvdcsf
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