Knowing what the development language is as well would help a lot - but the first thing you want to do is get some instrumentation on both your 32 Core AMD box and your M1 and compare the two.
The M1 is very fast at doing certain things and your application may just be making good use of the M1 instruction set... both without knowing a bit more its difficult to tell.
This looks awesome (beautiful looking app) but wow... its expensive!
I've been using Boop (free) for the same purpose
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop/id1518425043?mt=12 and really wouldn't mind paying for devutils (I've tried the demo and liked it) but $49.95 for the standard edition seems a little on the steep side for what it is...
In the event of a decent price reduction this would have me purchase for sure.
Edit: "This is a perpetual license and includes one year’s worth of updates." - yeah, I'll pass thanks.
Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you like DevUtils! I just want to drop a quick comment about the license terms.
"This is a perpetual license and includes one year’s worth of updates"
In the last 12 months, I added 10+ major upgrades[1] with a lot of new tools, bug fixes, and improvements.
I think the 1-year upgrades term is the best way to keep me motivated and keep improving the app.
This license type is the same as seen in many other popular apps like JetBrains IDE, Sketch, TablePlus, Parallels Desktop, etc.
I hope you understand.
I do offer student discounts and special discounts if you are from a country with a low-income level. Feel free to hit me up anytime (email in my profile).
No need to apologize to anyone. Your pricing is a steal for the convenience. It takes time to maintain and develop new features and it would be crazy for people to expect all of this for free…
Expensive? Not really. I was an early purchaser of DevUtils, and in the intervening time, the author has released a steady plethora of improvements and enhancements. Not to mention develop a bunch of other unrelated useful utilities.
He kind of reminds me of myself 25 years ago, when I used to write utility app after utility app for DOS, early Windows systems, Unix systems etc. Hundreds of long forgotten tools that were used by either just myself, or large corporations and government departments for a modest fee. Had there been a Stripe or easy way of monetising decades ago, I could have made some serious coin. But eventually I burnt out and started a 'boring' consulting business to pay the bills.
I just loved creating, and I wish that someone had paid me enough to just keep experimenting and creating them because who knows where it could have gone. I paid for a DevUtils licence because I wanted Tony to continue to be encouraged to create more without feeling unappreciated, and I don't want him to end up an old, jaded programmer like me. ;) I can either pay $25 over the next week to buy coffees that I will pee down the drain, or I can help a young indie programmer create something new...
This is why developers constantly choose to go for an ad based revenue model over just charging users. The amount that can be made by not respecting user privacy and getting a million users greatly exceeds the amount that can be made by charging a fraction of those users. Everyone pays lip service to the idea that they are willing to pay for a no ad experience but it's just that, lip service.
It is expensive for me, personally, but just in the that it is just enough of a price point to encourage me to automate and script these things myself, relative to my income. But I'm surprised to hear that sentiment on here more broadly, don't y'all all have fancy jobs? Also its an osx app, y'all already have macbooks, and $25 is too much?
25 dollars is expensive? Should I remind you that you're complaining about the cost of a few beers while typing your complaint on a >$1000-dollar device.
The value is in the convenience of NOT having to spend the time researching, bookmarking, and remembering all those tools you use. That is the calling of software developers right? To abstract complexity so the other person doesnt have to worry about "this"? All businesses are born out of creating convenience for someone else who values time more than experience (in that particular thing).
$25 for this app might save you hours of work, hundreds or thousands. Just like $25 for a half tank of gas will save you a few hours from getting to where you want to go.
Read as much as you can about assembly. Debuggers are your best friend. Pick a target (app, iPhone, xbox, whatever). Attach debugger and step through the code and learn possible entry vectors (buffer overflow, loading for arbitrary file i.e. pdfs, so forth). Once you have an entry vector you essentially have an exploit, the rest is developing that exploit to do something "useful".
Sorry for the shortness of this response, if people are interested I can throw together a couple of blog posts.
That would be really nice. I actually started learning programming so I could become a better "h4x0r" (I was a kid). But then I discovered I liked making things a lot more. I'd be really fun to go back and learn the things that inspired me to play with a computer in the first place.
This is ancient; and Fravia is dead, so updates are unlikely. Fravia was also Italian and the writing is, uh, sometimes hard to follow. But I include it because it gives insight to the frame of mind that is needed, and is comprehensive about the tools that used to be used.
Anyone else frequent http://freaky.staticusers.net/ back in the day? I always found their forums full of goodies [esp if you were interested in hacking from or into osx / os9] - pity it seems to have been taken down! [google still has some of it though].
I too grew up reading Fravia and absolutely loved his tutorials. One nostalgic evening several months ago I went googling for his tutorials and was saddened to see he had passed.
I've been very curious ever since to know what he wrote in his last post, but unfortunately I can't read Italian and the online translation service I've tried seem to fail horribly. Are there any Italian speakers able to translate this for the rest of us?
I'd like to add an example from the old days: "Ralf Brown's Interrupt List" [link]. It's a list of interrupts used by various software packages with documented weaknesses (typically register range checks). Whenever I'd write an ISR I'd check the list to avoid collisions with other software. Others would use it for writing exploits, the list contains a plethora of attack vectors.
The M1 is very fast at doing certain things and your application may just be making good use of the M1 instruction set... both without knowing a bit more its difficult to tell.