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You know Node Preview, the paid add-on? I made a free & open source one

hey blender users, you know Node Preview, the paid add-on? I built my own take on it, free & open source (yes).

Node Peek: live rendered previews above your shader nodes, following your selection (or all of them, your call).

And yes, I used AI: the code is Claude's, the idea, the UX and the testing are mine. Everything is GPL and open. Hope It will help!

Find it here: https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/node-peek/ or in your Get extensions menu in Blender :) (and Github: https://github.com/mlstr0m/node-peek )

Feedback and reports bugs welcome!! :)

u/mlstr0m — 17 hours ago
▲ 0 r/MacOSBeta

Beta 6 issue - External monitor are not recognized anymore.

Edit: It's working again! Finally after hours of using my MBP after the update, I tried to connect it to my monitor again and It works. Strange issue...

Did someone have the same issue? I can't work on a external monitor because It's not recognized by my Macbook Pro. I'm on a M5 Pro 48gb by the way

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u/mlstr0m — 1 day ago
▲ 9 r/macgaming

First working macOS bluetooth bridge for the Switch 2 Pro Controller — open source, BLE-based

The Switch 2 Pro Controller (PID 0x2069) doesn't work natively on macOS — USB is blocked by the controller's firmware and Bluetooth Classic discovery never finds it. I reverse-engineered the BLE side enough to read inputs and built a small menubar app that translates them to keypresses (Ryujinx-ready by default, fully remappable for anything else).

What works

  • All buttons (face, shoulders, triggers, +/-, Home, Capture, LS/RS, GL/GR)
  • User-editable JSON mapping, supports single-char keys and <up>, <space>, <cmd> etc.
  • Menubar app with Connect / Disconnect / Edit mappings / Reload mappings
  • Logs for diagnostics

What doesn't (yet)

  • LED control & rumble — output BLE characteristic doesn't respond, likely needs a Joy-Con-style handshake I haven't reversed yet
  • Motion / gyro — bytes are in the report but not decoded
  • True analog — would need a virtual HID device via DriverKit, out of scope for now

Not a driver. It won't show up in System Preferences and won't work with native games. It's a BLE → keyboard translation layer.

Heads-up: the DMG is unsigned (no Apple Developer account), so Gatekeeper refuses the first launch. Right-click → Open, or "Open Anyway" in Privacy settings.

Repo + release: https://github.com/mlstr0m/switch2bridge-macos/releases/tag/v1.0.0

I tested the BLE protocol and the build, but I no longer have the controller so I can't validate end-to-end. Feedback welcome — especially whether the sticks feel right, if disconnect is clean when you power off the controller, and if the "Controller not found" error shows correctly.

Let me know what you think! :)

u/mlstr0m — 3 months ago