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A free menu bar app that hides your Mac's Desktop icons in one click, all of them or only the types you choose.
Bare vs HiddenMe vs One Switch: Mac Desktop icon tools compared
Compare Bare, HiddenMe, One Switch, and macOS settings for hiding Desktop icons. A sourced comparison of scope, cost, selective hiding, and where each option fits.
How to hide Desktop icons on Mac: settings, Bare, and Terminal
Hide Mac Desktop icons without deleting files. Compare built-in settings, Bare's menu bar toggle, Finder's disk settings, and Terminal, with steps to show everything again.
How Bare hides Mac Desktop icons with file flags
Inside Bare: UF_HIDDEN, symlink-safe flag changes, selective hiding, filename-based restoration, a debounced directory watcher, and the edge cases tested against its source.
How to restore hidden Desktop icons on Mac after using Bare
Bring back Desktop icons after using Bare. Check the app's Show command, hidden-file mode, macOS settings, and disk icons before changing individual file flags.
How to hide screenshots on your Mac Desktop and keep folders visible
Keep Mac screenshots out of sight without hiding your project folders. Use Bare's screenshot-only preset, change the save location, or capture to the Clipboard.
The Training Set Was a Text File a Client Wrote by Hand
Four hundred client-written examples in a plain text file became the entire specification for a model's voice. The parser, the category-resolution hack I am not proud of, the refusal to machine-translate, and the three numbers that show where the dataset is still weak.