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Alex Spaulding

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Computer Science student at Eastern Washington University. Founder of Wawona, a native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android. Also build macOS and iOS runtime tooling, reverse-engineering tools, and Nix infrastructure. Seeking internships or full-time as a Systems Software Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Developer Tools Engineer.

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  • Founder and Lead Engineer, Wawona

    2025-present

    • Native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android (200+ stars): Rust core, Metal and Vulkan, UniFFI, Nix toolchain, TestFlight.
    • On-device shell and userland, Wayland graphics compatibility (GBM, EGL, ANGLE), Waypipe remote apps.
  • Assembly Technician, Sunburst Sensors

    2022-2025

    • Built and calibrated pCO2 and pH instruments; PCB soldering, firmware updates for 1,000+ microcontrollers, hydrostatic testing.
  • Wawona nesting a KDE Plasma Linux desktop session on macOS

    Wawona

    2025-present

    231 stars

    Native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android: nested Linux desktops, Waypipe, and on-device shell.

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  • macOS windows with apple-sharpener applying custom corner radii beside the default Liquid Glass look

    apple-sharpener

    2024-present

    305 stars

    macOS Ammonia tweak for arbitrary window corner radii (including square and squircles). Widely used after Liquid Glass pushed system radii much larger.

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  • Whisperer Apple Watch home screen with slate glow theme

    Whisperer

    2024-present

    Voice ChatGPT client for Apple Watch: Whisper transcription, streaming replies, TTS, OCR, and image generation.

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Also see: ModernOrange Band / Sentinel High School Computer Building Club

Core: Objective-C, Swift, Rust, C, Nix, macOS and iOS internals, Wayland, Metal, reverse engineering, continuous integration

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  • Shell7.1%
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  • JavaScript5.8%
  • TypeScript4.9%
  • Rust3.1%
  • Other8%

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apple-sharpener

2024-present

305 stars

apple-sharpener is a macOS Ammonia injection tweak that controls application window corner radius, including sharp square corners. It uses Objective-C runtime hooks and early injection, keeps system UI (menus, popovers, HUDs) intact, and exposes live CLI control with persisted state via notifyd.

Universal builds cover Intel and Apple Silicon. It is one of the more widely used projects in the modern macOS tweak ecosystem (300+ GitHub stars).

Interest jumped in 2026 when Apple shipped Liquid Glass and raised the default window corner radius to roughly 35 (from about 12). Users who disliked the new look, or the inconsistent radii across apps, turned to apple-sharpener for a fix. You can set any radius you want, including squircles for near-circular windows. Dock corner radius is configurable too, in a Hyprland-like spirit: edit ~/.config/sharpener/config.toml and keep going.

It pairs especially well with tiling window managers such as yabai and Aerospace, where side-by-side BSP and autotiling layouts favor square windows and every pixel of usable space counts.

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