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Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

yen223 wrote: post #80

I highly recommend reading this list of built-in macOS terminal commands: https://ss64.com/mac/ Some commands I use often: - `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` to copy and paste data via the clipboard - `date -u` to give the date in UTC - `networkQuality` is speedtest but built-in to macOS - `caffeinate` prevents your computer from going to sleep (it's the same as the old Caffeinate program, but built-in now) - `open ...` to ope…

> caffeinate

https://keepingyouawake.app/ I use this for a "GUI" version

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by bigsweatshirt »

pmarreck wrote: post #105
afloatboat wrote: post #22

Raycast - Replaces Spotlight for opening applications - Replaces Magnet for window management, same features but don’t have to run a separate app now. - keeps a clipboard history - allows me to convert colours and units - integrates with my calendar to show me upcoming meetings, shows them in my menu bar and lets me join them with one click - allows me to prevent my Mac from sleeping (for certain durations) with caff…

Link?

raycast.com

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by ogou »

- MacJournal

- Inkscape

- Reaper

- iA Writer

- Transmit

- LocalSend

- homebrew/cli: ffmpeg, imagemagick, pyenv, nvm

- Sublime, but I'm using it less and less. I tried so hard to support it and have bought multiple upgrades. But, the plugin system and environment handling is terrible. I dread setting it up on new installs or machines.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by TillE »

yen223 wrote: post #80

I highly recommend reading this list of built-in macOS terminal commands: https://ss64.com/mac/ Some commands I use often: - `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` to copy and paste data via the clipboard - `date -u` to give the date in UTC - `networkQuality` is speedtest but built-in to macOS - `caffeinate` prevents your computer from going to sleep (it's the same as the old Caffeinate program, but built-in now) - `open ...` to ope…

`xattr -cr` is a wonderfully quick way to bypass the security quarantine of unsigned binaries.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by rrrix1 »

veidr wrote: post #159

iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

Seriously! I think I spend most of my time in iTerm over any other single app.

Plus, it's open source and the developer continues to improve it, so many years later.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by lemonwaterlime »

veidr wrote: post #159

iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

The reason is that there was a recent controversy[0]. Many people have moved to alacritty/kitty/wezterm.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432446

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by veidr »

rrrix1 wrote: post #166
veidr wrote: post #159

iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

Seriously! I think I spend most of my time in iTerm over any other single app. Plus, it's open source and the developer continues to improve it, so many years later.

Yeah. I realized it was so important when I noticed that my main daytime use of my Mac was to operate my Linux machine via iTerm2.

Like any time I need to do something complicated, like a process that I might want to document after the fact... iTerm never loses history, you can get timestamps on every command after the fact. It's automatable, you can easily tell it to open 10 terminals, replaying a different CLI command sequence in each... I could go on and on and on, but I can't think of any other example of an app that has so thoroughly dominated its category.

I mean maybe like Microsoft Excel for Windows, but that is from a whole other angle (that is not software excellence haha)...

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