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

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Post by tailspin2019 »

xcubic wrote: post #253
tailspin2019 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah I can understand that. I'm not passionate about one vs the other. Sometimes I do like a GUI! Keyboard Maestro is great.

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

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Post by iamsaitam »

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)_/¯

I recommend that you try out WezTerm[1]. I used Warp before switching to WezTerm, but Warp took always a long time to open the first time. WezTerm on the other hand is extremely snappy and easy to configure. After having tried iTerm2, Alacritty, Kitty, Warp and others I might be forgetting, I don't think I'll ever move away from WezTerm. It just works.

[1]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html

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

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Post by brunorsini »

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.

The first thing I install when I get a new mac. Peter ftw.

For everyone recommending Rectangle, for instance... I just have a few Keyboard Maestro macros. KM probably replaces half a dozen other apps for me.

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

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Post by veidr »

iamsaitam wrote: post #262
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)_/¯

I recommend that you try out WezTerm[1]. I used Warp before switching to WezTerm, but Warp took always a long time to open the first time. WezTerm on the other hand is extremely snappy and easy to configure. After having tried iTerm2, Alacritty, Kitty, Warp and others I might be forgetting, I don't think I'll ever move away from WezTerm. It just works. [1]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html

I've tried WezTerm, and it seemed good. But, I didn't see anything better that iTerm. (Aside from the name not being "WezTerm2" :-/ ) And even though I use only maybe 8% of iTems's features, that's still a significant number of great features no other terminal that I know of has.

I've also tried all the others you mention. I actually like Konsole from KDE the second best, I think.

But none of them come even close to iTerm, except... it doesn't run on my main computers, so I have to find a Mac and SSH into my main (Linux) machines.

What I want is iTerm (minus confusing version iTerm 2 v 3.x naming stuff), that work on Linux also. (Extremely unlikely to ever exist, I know... just stating my wants.)

And maybe also with a Termius-style "persist all your bookmarks and saved configs to the cloud so that with one commmand you have them all on any machine".

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