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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

TrafficWeaver, the per-app proxy switchboard for macOS

trafficweaver.app ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A macOS utility that routes selected applications through SOCKS5 or HTTPS proxies while leaving the rest of the system untouched.

Why it surfaced

TrafficWeaver tackles a precise networking problem with application, host, port, protocol, and network rules, plus a rule simulator and connection log. Its unusually candid documentation covers proxy chains, UDP behavior, encrypted DNS, hardcoded addresses, and the fact that users must supply their own proxy servers.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.