The Shiny blog
Honest answers to the questions Mac owners actually ask. About memory, performance, and the small things that make a Mac feel new again.
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What memory pressure means, why your Mac feels slow, and the words behind both.
Diagnose what's actually slowing your Mac down, then fix it calmly without the scary cleaner popups, the fake urgency, or the recycled six-step guides that pad search results with the same warmed-over advice your Mac doesn't actually need.
Targeted advice for your Mac model and macOS version, from M1 Air to Tahoe.
Why Chrome, Slack, Teams, and Photoshop eat so much RAM, and what to do.
Honest comparisons of cleaner suites and the indie tools that quietly compete with them.
Is CleanMyMac safe? Is MacKeeper a scam? The honest answers every other blog avoids.
Why $4.99 once, what no telemetry costs, and the decisions behind how Shiny is built.
Recent posts
Spotify, WhatsApp, Notion, Slack, Discord, Teams. Each one is a Chromium browser plus JavaScript. The math adds up faster than you think.
About ShinyA POSIX signal Shiny uses, supported by macOS since 10.0. The mechanism is simple, well-documented, and surprisingly underused.
App comparisonsSeven Mac apps you can buy once and use forever. From iA Writer to Alfred, the small but committed group still selling one-time licenses.