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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 gumboshoes »

ffsm8 wrote: post #103

> MacBook Air. A little off topic, but were you aware that you'll never be able to use more then 1 monitor with that before your purchase? I use a MacBook pro for work. I would've preferred the air variant to, but the artificial segmentation forced me to go for the heavier Pro

Also, DisplayLink makes hardware that will allow adding more monitors to Macs and PCs that don't usually allow them. I have their addons for both Mac and Dell laptops at home. https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics

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

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Post by xcubic »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #201
NaOH wrote: post #27

Keyboard Maestro allows you to simplify or automate nearly any task. No words here can capture its capabilities. Additional perks are its stability, no subscriptions (and discounted upgrade pricing for existing users), and a helpful support forum.

I really like Keyboard Maestro but I found myself gravitating back to Hammerspoon after a while and just building out a library of scripts for everything I used Keyboard Maestro for (and quite a bit more). For someone using neither of these tools yet, Keyboard Maestro is probably the nicer one to start with to give you a taste for how useful some of those automations can be! Both are pretty powerful.

Funny, I did the opposite because at some point I wanted to do something that was straightforward with KM but non-trivial with hammerspoon.

I do miss it's simplicity in pulling info from the system.

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

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Post by mystickphoenix »

schmeichel wrote: post #9

If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation ( https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon ) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement ( https://w…

I use Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst in my day to day. Slightly different management philosophy but one that works well for me.

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

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Post by theedwood »

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

TIL there is a built in utility. I switched from Caffeinate to Amphetamine a while back and never bothered to look for a built-in solution. Great to know!

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

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Post by theedwood »

While I try to stick with cross platform utilities whenever possible, the list below contains both MacOS-only and cross platform tools I use daily and could not live without:

# GUI Tools

  - Alacritty -- Cross platform, lightweight terminal emulator
  - Rancher Desktop -- Better Docker desktop experience
  - Alfred -- Replaces spotlight for me
  - Amphetamine -- Keep laptop awake
  - Rectangle -- Window snapping
  - `notunes` -- Prevents iTunes from popping up (brew install notunes)
#CLI Tools

  - Homebrew -- package manager
  - `lazyvim` -- neovim with a lot of stuff pre-configured.
  - `tmux` -- terminal multiplexer
  - PagerDuty CLI - https://github.com/martindstone/pagerduty-cli
  - Silver Searcher `ag` -- faster grep (brew intall the_silver_searcher)
  - Github cli -- `gh` (brew install gh)
  - `fzf` -- fuzzy finder (brew install fzf)
  - `jq` and `yq` -- Parse json and yaml respectively (brew install jq yq)

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

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Post by yamilg »

mathisd wrote: post #16

- Arc Browser - Typora : a markdown editor - Flux : screen color temperature adjuster - Rectangle : window management - Transmission : torrent downloader - Pika : color picker - IINA : video player - Quickshade : to go below minimal luminosity - The Unarchiver : for unsupported compressed file

I'm very happy with qBittorrent, in case you want to try something different.

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

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Post by soraminazuki »

cassianoleal wrote: post #207
lemonwaterlime wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Pretty ridiculous controversy. Opt-in feature, disabled until you paste your own OpenAI API key on it.

Not to mention that you need to interact with it every time you use it, sheesh.

The Mastodon mobs who brigaded the issue tracker were squarely in the fringe, frowned upon by pretty much everyone else...

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