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by vladvasiliu 1054 days ago
Well, it does a little more than that. You can type yourservice.local instead of 192.168.0.12:1234.

I don't know that I'd buy this if I still had a mac, but I do think that paying for quality of life improvements can be worthwhile. For example, I do pay for a license of IntelliJ idea, even though VSCode costs $0, and I'm not even a full-time software dev.
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evanelias 1054 days ago
Sure, but there are also excellent FOSS solutions for this, such as https://github.com/peterldowns/localias which has the benefit of being cross-platform.
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lxgr 1054 days ago
Multiple, different solutions to the same problem, some paid, others free and/or open source? Inconceivable!
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EspressoGPT 1054 days ago
I do have a MacBook and I do have a JetBrains All-Products license, yet I'm not going to pay for a service that does something existing tools can do for free today (see Puma, Caddy etc.) – and that $19 isn't even a one-time purchase since you'll only get updates for a year.
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