Changing sides

Due to reasons I'll be completely laying down on Nintendo homebrew development. If I get a WiiU then it'll be an exception as I'll be making at least one homebrew for it.

I decided to compensate for this loss and learn three languages: Python, Swift, and ObjC. Since macOS has so nice standard functionality out of the box (like screen capture natively supported by the Quartz window manager, or in-GUI "vibrancy" as opposed to the window-only "Aero" transparency in Windows' DWM) I decided to poke some of this and see what I can come up with.

So far I find Swift my ideal choice. It's Python-like with its type hinting and the colon usage, but it also allows to poke the standard library classes like the "static operator this" in C# to extend their functionality via "protocols" (or as it's named in more sane languages, "interface").

I'd love to hear a few ideas to make for macOS, as I don't know where to begin with... because a blurred transparent window is not too much fun :P

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@MarcusD Changing the info is pretty easy, I'm just a lazy bastard. If you don't make the tool, it's perfectly fine. Just more motivation for me to learn :P
 
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@TheGrayShow1467 if it's easy then I'm pretty sure I could make a fake "About this Mac" dialog and replace some values with textboxes instead, that should work I guess. I'll look up some more info after school I guess.
 

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