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I had that complaint about Mail too. Then I realized you can begin dragging an email (from the list view), switch apps with your other hand, and drop it into, say, a todo. Of cours…

Location: Durham, NC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, OCaml, Elixir, Postgres, Elasticsearch, LLVM, ML, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Django, JavaScript, TypeScri…

I can't solve all your problems, but here are a few I can do off the top of my head. I hope they help somebody. Hold keys and click to move a window: https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/20…

I've been doing this for >10 years with https://manytricks.com/butler/ . Works great! You can also bind snippets of text, scripts, etc. I can't overstate how important it is to hav…

Hit command-return to open the folder the file is in.

One good source of Mac mechanicals is Matias, e.g. https://matias.ca/quietpro/mac/ . In fact, it's the only company I've found that makes a true Mac layout: that is, a full symmetr…

Yes, this is why I implemented hash-checking in pip ( https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/repeatable-installs/#ha... ). Running your own server is certainly another way to solve t…

To me, most shortcuts gain nothing by being on mouse rather than the keyboard (which, of course, has much more room). However, when a shortcut modifies a mouse action or otherwise …

Width-based media queries are simply a corrupt idea altogether. In addition to the problem complained noted in the post, they give rise to other pathological behaviors I encounter …

The Mac has provided easy access to symbols since 1984, with nice mnemonics like these: option-= ≠ option- ≥ option-/ ÷ option-o ø option-w ∑ I don't know why other OSes haven't ad…

If you're on a Mac, Moom ( https://manytricks.com/moom/ ) can do this.

Then charge for bug fixes. Charge for updates that make the application run on a new version of the OS. If those things provide sufficient value, users will pay for them. I've been…

Check out https://blog.webmemex.org/ . It serializes pages, inlining their external resources, full-text indexes them, and saves them locally. Browser extensions are available for …

Note that HN formatting ate the single asterisk before and after. You'll need to enter them as well.

I paid $20 for USB Overdrive, an excellent third-party driver, so I could continue using my ancient MS Intellimouse when its drivers took a turn for the worse. You can set speed an…

Nudge and you shall receive! https://github.com/mozilla/popup-urls Thank you for contributing!

iMessages are encrypted, but it's Apple who hands the client one or more public keys with which to encrypt them—and that's each time; there is no key pinning. They could easily han…

A proper Mac keybaord has symmetric modifier keys (3 on each side of the spacebar) and an asterisk key in the upper right of the numpad.

You can set that up only per application, and you can't do anything fast like dragging all your apps into the window. You have to click the + button once for every app on your mach…

Absolutely. The links even resolve on different devices, as long as you have access to the same mail accounts.

Yes. My strategy is to do a daily review. In the first few minutes of the day, I pull maybe 14 tasks out of the big list and into a Today list. Then I see only a manageable number …

Things ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ) does pretty much that. It has a little Quick Entry daemon which lets you press control-option-space in Mail.app to make a new task linke…

iOS won't let an app keep a socket open very long once it's out of the foreground. (In generally backgrounding on iOS is unreliable. It's a double-edged sword: it keeps rogue or ba…

Make sure you have another copy; flash does degrade over time.

Which headphones? And then, when you want to plug them into an (even Apple) laptop, you detach the adaptor and forget to bring it with you.