[HN Gopher] A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
Author : dnw
Score : 413 points
Date : 2026-01-25 15:34 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| publicdebates wrote:
| I would pay $10 for this.
| xfactorial wrote:
| I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that
| uses things like the camera is a "no go" for me.
|
| Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it
| (and I hope others will do it as well).
|
| Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market
| opportunity for heavy users.
| xpasky wrote:
| It's literally a single .swift file. Ask your LLM to audit it.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| then I need to get someone to audit the LLM, which is
| considerably more difficult
| StilesCrisis wrote:
| Do you expect this programmer is in cahoots with Anthropic?
| saagarjha wrote:
| The opposite, actually: that the code tricks the LLM.
| tananaev wrote:
| Are you serious? It's open source. And there's less than 1000
| lines total. Get Codex or Claude to review it if you're
| paranoid.
| Alejandro9R wrote:
| The thing is that how do you know at the end of the day that
| the compiled binary hasn't been tampered with "extra code"
| besides what's in the repo?
|
| I don't even think notarization gets rid of this problem
| neither, so the best you can do for this is compile it
| yourself. Maybe I'm wrong!
| alexford1987 wrote:
| Compiling it yourself _is_ the best /only thing you can do
| if you really want to know what code went into a binary.
| prmoustache wrote:
| What prevents you from compiling it if it is open-source?
|
| That's what I do with every project delivered as docker
| image. I rebuild the app and the image.
| encom wrote:
| Go easy on the guy. Mac users are so used to overpaying for
| trivial functionality.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| While I disagree with you, thank you for sharing your decision-
| making process: you're probably not the only one who thinks
| this way.
|
| In general, would you pay for a notorised build of free
| software, if you had use for that software, even if an un-
| notorised build or the source code were available?
| IshKebab wrote:
| I seriously doubt that he actually would. And in that
| unlikely event he'd be in a miniscule minority. Not a good
| open source monetisation strategy.
| alin23 wrote:
| Notarization is mostly a glorified malware scan. There's no
| Apple engineer auditing what's being sent for notarization.
| Even clever malware can evade notarization scans and be
| distributed as a notarized binary, it has happened in the past
| [0]
|
| There's no better way for auditing such an app than having the
| code easily available and looking through it, and compiling it
| yourself. Which is already the case here.
|
| [0] https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/new-macsync-macos-
| stealer-...
| burnerthrow008 wrote:
| Your link says that Apple revoked the certificate used to
| sign the malware by the time the story was published.
| tjohnell wrote:
| Posturr is now notarized!
| tanelpoder wrote:
| _Once launched, Posturr runs in the background and displays a
| brief "Claude Mode Active" notification._
|
| I haven't checked the code yet, but what does the "Claude Mode"
| mean? Is it a poor naming choice? It implies that the local app
| is somehow connected to Claude (?)
| auslegung wrote:
| A codebase search for "claude" only has 1 hit in the code (the
| markdown that you referenced) and 4 commits which include the
| word in the commit message, or one commit includes .claude/ in
| the git ignore. See
| https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atldev%2Fposturr+claude&ty...
|
| Same with a codebase search for "anthropic"
| tjohnell wrote:
| Hi - this is the author. I can explain that, ha!
|
| Right now I'm using a vision library to detect head height
| which was good enough. I went down a tangent where I hooked it
| up to my Claude Code instance to take a screen shot and have
| Claude Code assess how bad my slouch was. Claude would watch a
| folder for screen shots, read it in, and if it detected bad
| posture, write to a file the program was watching to adjust
| blur.
|
| I did this weird work-around so I could use my Claude Code
| subscription as opposed to the API.
|
| Anyways, it was too slow and Claude was a bad judge of
| slouchiness. Head height works well enough!
|
| I'll clean this up.
| tanelpoder wrote:
| Cool, thanks for the clarification. Indeed it's a good and
| practical idea for a small app. As other comments have said,
| (some) people might happily pay for this app.
|
| I luckily won't need such feedback loop anymore, had some
| mild lower back pain show up over 10 years ago and bought a
| chair without a backrest that, after 3-4 weeks of struggling,
| trained me to sit up straight. Now I have some random cheap
| office chair with a backrest, but I rarely lean back to it.
| Funnily, I was going to give up using that "backrestless"
| chair after 2 weeks of inconvenience, but decided to give it
| one more week and then the magic happened :-) Mild lower back
| pain automatically gone.
| hn8726 wrote:
| Care to share an example of this backrestless chair? Is it
| like a regular chair just without the backrest, or has some
| other differences? Does it have armrests for example, and
| if not - does it bother you?
| tanelpoder wrote:
| I went with an overkill approach at first (as I often do
| :-) and bought some expensive nicely designed "active
| chair" / stool that was adjustable high enough so that I
| could lean on it even when using my desk as a standing
| desk. It was interesting, but not a game changer at all
| for me. I don't use standing desks now at all.
|
| But what I have now is this:
|
| https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FL3LY4
|
| Just don't assemble the backrest at first. If sitting up
| straight, I just lean wrists on my keyboard wristpad and
| part of forearms on the desk, no armrests needed either.
|
| Edit: I still use my height-adjustable standing desk, but
| now it's value is that I could adjust it for the perfect
| height for my sitting-up-straight position (so no chair
| armrests needed) and it's been fixed at that height for
| the last 7 years...
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| Not sure which one the parent was referring to but
| personalizing I've been using one of these for more than
| a decade at this point (I'm sitting on it right now)
| https://www.varierfurniture.com/en/products
|
| The one I have does have a backrest but because of the
| way it's shaped you don't actually use it to slouch. It's
| more there to support when you lean back and want to take
| a break from typing or something like that.
| amelius wrote:
| Why use a proprietary stack for building this when there is a far
| more capable open ecosystem available at your fingertips?
|
| https://huggingface.co/models?other=human-pose-estimation
|
| https://huggingface.co/models?other=3d-human-mesh-recovery
| kazen44 wrote:
| do any more open applications like this exist? The idea seems
| great
| p0w3n3d wrote:
| Great, now I'll get sick eyes too
|
| * laughs histerically
| VadimPR wrote:
| How can you tell if a short person is slouching? Or a tall
| person?
| kccqzy wrote:
| If you assume a person's chair height and desk height are both
| set optimally, then I guess the person's height doesn't matter
| for this detection.
| gcanyon wrote:
| I'm not the author, but I assume it benchmarks the highest
| height of your head, blurs from there, and updates its baseline
| if you ever appear higher.
|
| Meaning that the way to have "perfect posture" is never to sit
| up straight in the first place :-)
| lokar wrote:
| It has a calibration step
| blauditore wrote:
| Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct
| posture? I can't.
| hashmap wrote:
| if im not sitting on my right foot with left knee under my chin
| my thinking takes a hit, but i also have to constantly switch
| how im sitting so i dont get annoyed. its hard not to
| slouch/melt into whatever im sitting on and i think the only
| way to offset all that is the gym.
| louthy wrote:
| Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In
| my case it's a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me
| getting into a bad position (it's not impossible, it just
| encourages good posture).
|
| [1]
| https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...
| esskay wrote:
| Totally a tangent here but it amazes me how a company as big
| as Herman Miller could screw a product page up so much by not
| even having a picture of the damn product.
| hypeatei wrote:
| Something might be wrong with your client (ad-blocker,
| NoScript maybe?) because there a ton of pictures on that
| page.
| esskay wrote:
| Ha, yep you're right. How bizarre, wasn't a browser ad
| block, it was adguard dns blocking a ton of tracking
| scripts needed to show the images.
| StilesCrisis wrote:
| It's the first thing on the page. Your browser is doing
| something funky.
| amelius wrote:
| I had the same problem.
| mrbluecoat wrote:
| It's there, you just have to slouch to see it.
| emptybits wrote:
| Lol, I see the image fine but if I click the red "Buy Now"
| button, I get a 404.
|
| Fortunately, I type this, sitting in my wonderful 15 year
| old Embody chair so I don't actually need to buy now.
| Everyone is different and I never raved much about Aerons
| but the Embody has been very good to me, whether my posture
| is textbook "good" or "badly" slouched and reclined ... it
| supports and makes me want to sit and work. :-)
| hexbin010 wrote:
| The embodiment of overpriced and mediocre
| cluckindan wrote:
| Word of warning: the Embody chair does not have front-to-back
| adjustments for the armrests. They will be pretty useless
| unless you like having your keyboard close to the edge of
| your desk.
| apt-apt-apt-apt wrote:
| I ditched all my HM chairs for a standard wooden chair. They
| just never felt right (maybe the non-forward-adjustable
| armrests had something to do with it), but boy are they good
| at selling you an expensive fantasy.
| oarfish wrote:
| Luckily there is no such thing as "correct posture".
| eeixlk wrote:
| Satire i hope
| Raed667 wrote:
| I would love this but for detecting when I'm not wearing my
| glasses!
| dhosek wrote:
| If I'm not wearing my glasses the screen blurs organically.
| dmurray wrote:
| Doesn't the screen already go blurry when you're not wearing
| your glasses?
| Raed667 wrote:
| It's a spectrum I'm trying to avoid it getting that bad
| ngruhn wrote:
| I think he's joking
| Raed667 wrote:
| I wish
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| "If only the world had some way to remind be to wear my glasses
| ... like going all blurry or something."
|
| I get you - but making it absurd is where my brain went
| immediately. >.<
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| I'm not sure how you can use a laptop with good posture. An
| external monitor at the right height seems like a necessity.
|
| I'm also optimistic about monitors in the form of glasses- even
| less effort needed to set yourself up for perfect posture. But
| the sweet spot problem is still very much a thing from what I've
| seen- can't wait until it's normal for them to have eye tracking,
| foveated rendering and streaming, and be wireless.
| duckruu wrote:
| My Apple Vision Pro has all that, and it's perfect for posture
| when using a MacBook.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Yeah- this and the upcoming steam frame seem like the best
| options today.
|
| There's something very attractive for me personally about the
| sunglasses form factor.
|
| Safer in public, draws less attention, more portable, less
| headset fatigue, etc.
|
| But obviously trading quality and features.
|
| Also AVP is like $3k, steam frame will probably be $800+,
| xreal are like half that
| duckruu wrote:
| > But obviously trading quality and features.
|
| For me it's like settling for a CRT after trying a 4k TV in
| terms of visuals, but with the form factors reversed.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Except the form factors are swapped, but yes.
| vunderba wrote:
| Isn't the Vision Pro rather front loaded in terms of its
| weight distribution? Seems like you might just be trading one
| ergonomic problem for another.
| duckruu wrote:
| It's not really, with the new dual band which changes the
| weight distribution. If you lean back a lot it's obviously
| going to rest on your face then, but that's a good way to
| avoid bad posture too.
|
| Still, it's not for everyone. I use it with my AirPods Max
| comfortably, I have a sturdy neck. I don't think my wife
| could pull it off.
| MengerSponge wrote:
| My dog could, but a person with adult proportions probably
| can't. For long-term use, a stand+KB is the only solution I
| know of
|
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/86285180/the-roost-savi...
|
| It's too bad that nobody on the Surface team has managed to
| crack this! I'd be much more interested in one if they had.
| physicles wrote:
| I use the Nexstand K2 (well, the Chinese knockoff I got for
| $5), and I bent some coat hangers to attach to the top of the
| stand and tilt the laptop forward. I'm a tall guy, and the
| top of the screen is even with my eyes. Bonus is that with an
| X1 Carbon, the Lenovo M14 or M14d fits perfectly over the top
| of the keyboard.
|
| The whole setup fits into a drawstring gym bag.
|
| https://nexstand.io/
| eastbound wrote:
| Laptop work is clearly not OSHA-compliant. I'm in France so
| it's probably regulated a little bit more, but having a
| screen at eye height and a keyboard slightly under elbow
| height is the first line on the security analysis document
| (le DUERP), at least for tertiary workers. And far above
| "Floor must be non-slippery" and "The right to disconnect
| after 6pm".
| MengerSponge wrote:
| Your last sentence is something in quotes that just shows
| up as "The right to ***** *** **". Doesn't look like
| anything to me.
| cosmic_cheese wrote:
| Yeah, most of my computer use is with a properly adjusted desk
| setup with external monitors and while it doesn't bother me to
| use a laptop to jot down some notes or for a short study
| session, if I try to do "real" work at all I quickly become
| uncomfortable. A cheap folding laptop stand (which elevates the
| laptop enough that the middle of its screen is eye level) and
| wireless KB+mouse dramatically improves comfort (and
| productivity) but the tradeoff is that you need a table or
| other sizable, stable flat surface.
|
| The exception is if there happens to be a reclined-position
| chair (IKEA POANG or similar) around; this gives back support
| and reduces neck craning enough to make longer sessions more
| viable, but it's far from a given that this kind of seating
| will be available.
| lanstin wrote:
| If you have interesting enough work, nothing else matters. I
| have written big complex systems while car pooling on a
| laptop in the passenger seat.
|
| The reason for this app is not productivity but for posture.
| rectang wrote:
| When working at a desk I put my 16-inch MacBook Pro on a stand
| and use an external keyboard and trackpad.
|
| I don't like adapting my monitor layout when moving between
| working environments.
|
| Instead of an extra monitor, I have an iPad Pro on a stand.
| iammrpayments wrote:
| Staying in upright posture for too long is also not good for you.
| PlatoIsADisease wrote:
| Anyone want to vibe code this to work on linux or M$
| borzi wrote:
| Great contrarian indicator for when people say that vibe coding
| is not "real development work" or economically viable/a job in
| the future - here is someone asking if another person can vibe
| code something for them that is single file of swift, the
| prompt could be as simple as "convert this to linux".
| hungryhobbit wrote:
| I don't think Linux has an equivalent of Apple's vision API,
| and if it does I guarantee it's not as robust and isn't
| baked-in to every Linux distro (the way Vision is baked-in to
| every Mac released after X date).
|
| That alone will likely prevent this from just being a
| "convert to Linux" vibe session ... which is unfortunate, as
| I would LOVE to have this on Linux.
| PlatoIsADisease wrote:
| Yep, this is the bottleneck. Otherwise I would have done
| the prompt myself.
| lcnmrn wrote:
| Install a pull up bar in your room. It will fix your back better
| than anything else.
| winrid wrote:
| 1 min plank in the morning is a big help too
| avalys wrote:
| You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am.
|
| Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture?
| I'm doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to
| change the system highlight color.
|
| Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my
| butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I'm
| building the next iPhone and it'll be done by 2 AM.
| digitaltinfoil wrote:
| this is the way
| collingreen wrote:
| This is how things get built for me as well. I have a standing
| desk and like using it occasionally but if you see me standing
| at it you can bet I'm doing something typical like emails or
| chat and not thinking deeply.
| dgxyz wrote:
| My productivity is generally measured in how much time I sit on
| the porcelain thinking throne first.
| jacobkranz wrote:
| Truer words have never been spoken. That and planning out
| your day & thinking through problems in the shower.
| codyb wrote:
| If you delete social media, and leave your phone away from
| your person all day with notifications turned off, you can
| have these moments all the time it turns out.
|
| Considering how much more productive these moments are for
| me than the bullshit I used to do on my phone and social
| media, it was an easy decision to make.
| saagarjha wrote:
| How do you simulate the warm water?
| codyb wrote:
| With a faucet my good friend!
| codyb wrote:
| Oh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the
| silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower
| thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself.
|
| Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes,
| walking places, etc can also give rise to them. Not
| having a device in your hand to constantly steal your
| attention really helps though.
| lanstin wrote:
| I find pacing to be helpful. As long as there's not a lot
| of poles to walk into accidentally. So while outside
| walks can be more focused you do get the odd head bang.
| pfannkuchen wrote:
| Showers are generally considered to be relaxing
| separately from the "shower thoughts" phenomenon.
|
| Couldn't the relaxation be a factor in generating shower
| thoughts?
|
| I suspect that essentially none of our non-ancestors were
| predated in a hot spring, unlike walking etc, so there
| may be an environmental cue driven induced relaxation
| that doesn't exist for many other activities.
| codyb wrote:
| Yea, you relax, and then your brain produces random
| thoughts about things.
|
| I suspect it's just about getting the space to relax,
| which is why I frequently have thoughts when staring at
| the wall, or taking a walk, or washing dishes, or doing
| any other myriad activities which are relatively easy on
| brain processing.
| j45 wrote:
| Solitude is extremely powerful.
| j45 wrote:
| Play it on a speaker.
| jjp wrote:
| Walking the dog is my go to for thinking through problems.
| The dog really loves the hard problems as they get a longer
| walk.
| rr808 wrote:
| I never understood this. Is this why the cubicles are always
| full in the office? WTF I go in there take a dump and leave
| while the people on each side are just silent the whole time.
| I can think of much better places to think.
| chongli wrote:
| My neck is screaming in empathetic pain for your future neck!
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Sounds like you're literally the target audience for this app.
| amelius wrote:
| Not if there is a hard positive correlation between
| productivity and slouching, like they say.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Gamer lean is when it gets really serious.
| jaccola wrote:
| Funny, I'm the same. I also like taking walks to think but I've
| found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down
| (I.e. looking at my feet). It's also how I stand thinking in
| the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck. Maybe
| something beneficial about that position of the neck, or maybe
| just habit!
|
| I will also have conversations in my head during my walk, I've
| done this my whole life and I'm not sure to this day whether my
| lips move during these or not. In any case, I must get some
| funny looks with head bolted to the ground mumbling to
| myself...
| j45 wrote:
| Wear earbuds like you're on call or recording something
| soulofmischief wrote:
| I've fully embraced looking insane in public. Try it some
| time; you won't go back.
| j45 wrote:
| haha, sounds good.
| wowzaa wrote:
| In my case, though walks help declutter my mind somewhat, for
| deeper thoughts, I have to write it down sitting or laying in
| the bed in the worst of positions. Thinking too deeply while
| walking only leaves me anxious in the end as I tend to get
| sidetracked a lot in conversation and always have to restart
| the conversation over and over again.
| sublinear wrote:
| Let's not forget the people who work from bed with AR glasses
| and a projector pointed at the ceiling.
| simsla wrote:
| This was me, and now I have horrific back pain almost every
| week. Fix what's broken before it breaks you.
| globile wrote:
| It would be much more interesting that the system blur when it
| finds we drift from being "in the zone".
|
| "I'm going to quickly shift from my terminal to this chrome tab
| to check this documentation but while it loads I'll get a
| dopamine hit from X."
|
| Blur the screen and help me get back on track...
| quinnjh wrote:
| it will be interesting to see as these tools emerge to what
| extent the undercontrolled behavior is a piece of a larger
| cycle of attention and context mgmt, or if all of that time
| can be nudged back into the zone
| bahmboo wrote:
| That's funny, but this is about physical health not
| productivity. I'm guessing you are relatively young. Desk jobs
| are tough on the body!
| aa_is_op wrote:
| Plz make a Windows version :)))
| kneel wrote:
| This is cool, I built something similar a while back. I
| originally wanted the screen to dim when I slouched but I
| couldn't get access to dimming on OSX. I ended up just playing a
| noise when I slouched. It became so distracting I stopped using
| it.
|
| The blurring of the screen is a much better idea.
| incanus77 wrote:
| Anyone else with progressive lenses just think "I already have
| this"?
| wkjagt wrote:
| I'm due for new glasses, so any laptop use is now a careful
| equilibrium between "text is burry" and "text is too small".
| rossdavidh wrote:
| Yes, absolutely. One of the first things I noticed when I
| changed from two pairs of glasses to progressive lenses. The
| other thing was that, because I don't have to switch glasses to
| look away from the screen, I remember to focus on a distant
| object every so often.
| iandanforth wrote:
| While this seems to detect posture fairly well, the screen
| blurring doesn't work for me despite allowing what appear to be
| the relevant permissions. (macOS 15.1)
| wklm wrote:
| I had the exact same issue and have fixed it here:
| https://github.com/wklm/posturr
| tjohnell wrote:
| I added compatibility mode that incorporates the public API.
| Give it a shot please. I welcome any feedback.
| tjohnell wrote:
| I've released 1.0.3 with compatibility mode to use public APIs.
| The blur isn't as good, but better than nothing!
| tjohnell wrote:
| 1.0.4 is release with better descriptions.
| rdslw wrote:
| Congrats on the app.
|
| I'm seeing that "great-ai-unlock" is happening. I see in last
| month a lot of new software being codeveloped with
| claude/codex/gemini/you-name it.
|
| Before, it was too costly to do sth like the Posture app: here,
| you would have to know Swift and apple apis to write such tool.
| Would you be C# (very good) programmer with free weekend, and an
| idea: no cookie for ya.
|
| These days, due to "great-ai-unlock" your skills can be easily
| transferred and used to cross platforms boundary and code such
| useful app in a weekend or so.
|
| Jevons paradox is indeed working
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox).
| tjohnell wrote:
| Thanks rdslw. I mentioned something similar on my blog post
| about this app here: https://tomjohnell.com/posturr-a-macos-
| app-that-blurs-your-s...
|
| I love coming up with fun ideas and only having to worry about
| the fun part - not the toil. I would never have made this app
| without llm support.
| victor106 wrote:
| Neat app. Any tips on how you used Claude Code to develop
| this?
| tjohnell wrote:
| My first prompt was:
|
| "Help me develop a MacOS app that blurs my screen the
| closer my mouse is to the top of the monitor"
|
| That was my PoC to see if there's APIs Claude could find
| that would make this easy to do. Once I proved that worked,
| I asked it to instead help me devise a way to adjust that
| blur based on my posture. It suggested the vision framework
| and measuring head height.
|
| Just kept iterating, one step at a time. Any toil I
| experienced, I asked it to remove or automate.
| jama211 wrote:
| Sounds like a good idea but "good posture" meaning being upright
| is just such an outdated and incorrect thing. Be comfortable,
| relax in your chairs, it's fine.
| byproxy wrote:
| A good video on this: https://youtu.be/n7h8H4nGeMw
| byteflip wrote:
| Would be cool to see integration with something like Upright Go
| or other sensors you place on your back that detect tilt etc.
| taf2 wrote:
| Love it - I did something like this for when codex is done - a
| script runs to detect if I'm at my computer or not and then
| notify my phone if I walked away that it's done - mostly so I can
| get back to slouching ;)
| hackernj wrote:
| Black Mirror is nearly here.
| zsoltkacsandi wrote:
| One thing I learned from my physio: in your spine, everything is
| connected.
|
| For example, even if you sit perfectly upright, if you have
| anterior pelvic tilt, it can change the whole dynamics of your
| spine, that the cervical segment takes a lot of load that it
| isn't supposed to do.
|
| Or with bad habits you can reprogram your neuromuscular system
| that it uses the wrong muscles to maintain posture, that can lead
| a series of problems long term.
|
| If you have back/neck pain or tension that does not resolve in
| 1-2 weeks, go to a physio.
| sahiljagtapyc wrote:
| I wonder if this is less about "bad posture" and more about how
| people unconsciously optimize for stability when thinking deeply.
| When I'm reasoning through something hard, I tend to lock into
| whatever position minimizes micro-adjustments - even if it looks
| terrible ergonomically.
| fatliverfreddy wrote:
| Guzzles my CPU, cool though! Would use if it didn't eat up half a
| core to boot.
| tjohnell wrote:
| I reduced the vision processing to about 10 fps as well as
| reduced camera resolution. I saw about an 80% reduction in CPU!
| Thanks for the feedback.
| avhception wrote:
| So now I gotta squint while I slouch!
| altern8 wrote:
| I can't seem to open it. It keeps saying "Apple could not verify
| "Posturr.app" is free of malware that may harm your Mac or
| compromise your privacy.".
|
| I tried opening by right-cliking on the app file, holding option,
| etc.
|
| I'm on Sequoia 15.7.3 (24G419)
| peesem wrote:
| you have to go into your Privacy & Security settings and scroll
| down until you see something like "Posturr.app was blocked to
| protect your Mac." and then press "Open Anyway"
| altern8 wrote:
| Ohhh... Thank you!
|
| Is this new? In previous version I could just right-click and
| it would open it.
| tom_ wrote:
| Looks like this changed for Sequoia:
| https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-
| help/mh40616/15.0/...
|
| And looks like Sonoma was the last version to support the
| right click menu: https://support.apple.com/en-
| gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/14.0/...
| lasgawe wrote:
| Is there anyone out there who's productive and sitting upright?
| Asking for me..
| didip wrote:
| lol, whenever I am hacking intensely, I am lying down on my bed
| with laptop tilted with the perfect angle.
|
| I guess this app won't catch me slouching then.
| russellbeattie wrote:
| That whole "good posture" thing is future physical problems
| waiting to happen. For 25 years, I've always put my feet up on
| the corner of my desk (to the left), set the seat as high as
| possible (or adjust the desk lower) and lean back, arms extended.
| Basically, I'm positioned like an F1 driver in a cockpit.
|
| No back problems as there's no weight on my spine. No carpal
| tunnel issues, as my wrists are always flat. No fatigue from
| holding my body at right angles for hours at a time.
|
| The downside is I look like a total slacker in the office,
| especially to narrow minded image conscious managers who expect
| me "to act professionally."
| einsteinx2 wrote:
| I've had chronic back problems due to computer use and back
| posture for 20+ years. This past year I bought an adjustable
| height desk and an Aeron chair to try and help, but I still
| slouch constantly without realizing it.
|
| I cloned this a few hours ago and started using it and it's
| amazing how effective the blur is! And it's frustrating to learn
| how quickly I start slouching the second I'm not paying
| attention.
|
| I'll echo what I've seen others saying about how cool it is to
| see something come about due to LLM coding that likely wouldn't
| have otherwise. Glad to see you actively working on it, and I'll
| be using it every day!
|
| P.S. I've been an iOS and Mac dev writing Obj-C and then Swift
| for 16 years now, so if you run into any issues that Claude isn't
| sorting out feel free to reach out to me, you can find my contact
| via my GitHub which is in my profile (same username as hear).
| Also as I'll be using this regularly, if I come up with any
| improvements I'll be sure to open a PR!
| RyanShook wrote:
| Works pretty well, probably too resource heavy to just always
| keep on. Suggestion: give the user a shortcut key to close the
| app in case the blur goes haywire on them.
| tjohnell wrote:
| Hi - thanks for the feedback. I've improved CPU usage with the
| latest release. I'll look into a kill switch.
| hk1337 wrote:
| This is a really cool idea. I'm a little put off with the idea
| that my camera is always watching me but the thought behind it is
| really cool.
| cmckn wrote:
| I kind of feel the same way, but I want to try it. I'm pretty
| sure I have a spare webcam lying around, it could be
| interesting to have a "trusted" sensor for this app so that I
| can still keep my main webcam locked down.
| nailer wrote:
| About 20 years ago they was an early XDG /Compiz plugin called
| 'literal focus' - as a joke, it only focused the focused window.
| It's amusing to see this technique being used more practically.
| dottjt wrote:
| It would be great if there was something like this, but for not
| wearing reading glasses.
| yieldcrv wrote:
| .gitignore > # Claude Code > .claude/
|
| Congratulations! I love seeing people express themselves to
| release things that were previously not economically viable to
| prioritize
|
| Forget worrying about a 10x dev, Claude Code with the Opus 4.5
| model has turned me into a 100x developer even in software stacks
| I'm not even familiar with. And with playwright-mcp its
| completely absolved the need for UX designers in my workflow
| because I just point playwright-mcp at an already established and
| A/B tested website for its UX principles. This gives me results
| far beyond what v0, lovable or Claude Code would come up with on
| its own.
| oarfish wrote:
| I guess it's technically cool, but one should be aware that there
| is no such thing as "good posture" or no accepted definition that
| lends itself to good science. slouching isnt bad, remaining in
| the same posture for a long time is, or at least it can lead to
| discomfort. people that sit up straight all the time still get
| back pain. i slouch all the time and i don't. The popular
| attachment to specific configurationa of your joints that look
| aeathetically acceptable os orthorexia, not science.
| lexoj wrote:
| As my doctor used to say: the best posture is the next one.
| iwontberude wrote:
| I spend most of my time at work on a medicine ball switching
| between switching, kneeling and standing. At home I switch
| between reclined, semi-reclined, upright and standing. I think
| its been working great.
| minton wrote:
| Lots of things people might want to monitor for such as nail
| biting.
| netik wrote:
| Great, so now my eyes and back are going to be f'd. Just step
| away from the screen and take regular breaks.
| rekabis wrote:
| Not that I have particularly bad posture, but...
|
| > Posturr uses your Mac's camera
|
| Not all of us have web cams, or are willing to tolerate them from
| a security perspective.
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