Скачать или смотреть SqueezeBar - macOS Menu Bar File Compression (Demo)

Like many developers, I found myself constantly compressing files. Need to submit a scanned document for administrative stuff? Compress it. Want to attach a demo video to a Pull Request? Compress it. File too large for an email? You guessed it, compress it.

At first, I was using those online compression websites. You know the drill: upload your file, wait for it to process, download it back, rename it, move it to the right folder... It works, but it's slow and kind of annoying when you're doing it multiple times a day. Plus, uploading sensitive documents to random websites always felt a bit sketchy.

So I thought, "Hey, I'm a developer. I can probably build something for this." And that's how SqueezeBar was born.

SqueezeBar is this little macOS app that sits in your menu bar and makes your files smaller. It's written in Swift and SwiftUI, and honestly, I learned a lot by making a bunch of mistakes and then fixing them (classic developer move, right?).

This is basically me writing down everything I figured out while building it. If you're learning macOS development or just curious about how these things work, hopefully this helps. I'll try to explain things in a way that doesn't require a PhD in Computer Science.