Alin Panaitiu

[Developer]

This website is supposed to be part portfolio, part rambling space. A place where I’ll try show my skills and projects, and also brag about them as much as possible. Because it’s my website right? I’m allowed to do that!

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Projects

Clop

Clop is a macOS app that can watch your clipboard and optimise any image you copy to it so that it is as small as possible and ready to paste into a chat, website, or email.

It can also watch folders for new images, videos or PDFs and optimise them automatically.

There’s also a handy drop zone where you can drag and drop files for quick optimisation.

Clop

Lunar

Lunar is a macOS app that brings adaptive brightness to your external monitors.

It uses the DDC communication protocol to set the brightness and contrast of the monitor based on the ambient light, location, external sensors or simply by using hotkeys.

It can also adjust the monitor volume, switch to a different input or turn off the monitor.

Lunar

The low-tech guys

The low-tech guys is a small app studio project that I started with two very good friends.

Our focus is on useful macOS and web applications that have a single functionality done well.

The low-tech guys

Noiseblend

Noiseblend is a web app for discovering music on Spotify based on your listening history.

It gives you an interface to the lesser known Spotify features like multiple-artist radio, genre playlists refreshed weekly and tuneable attributes like Acousticness or Danceability.

Noiseblend

About me

Image of Alin Panaitiu

Hi, I'm Alin Panaitiu

Living in

Brașov, Romania

Working on

  • Carving ☕ coffee cups and 🥄 spoons out of reclaimed wood for my 🪵 web shop
  • A little app studio called low tech guys icon The low-tech guys
  • Making Lunar Icon Lunar the defacto app for controlling external monitors
  • Documenting and open sourcing my work in a more consistent manner

Learning about

  • Wood carving using hand tools like the TWCA Cam and sloyd knives
  • Reverse engineering macOS apps and frameworks
  • Playing the Romanian kaval (shepherd’s flute)

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