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2,701 | 1,364 | |
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7.4 | 9.6 | |
21 days ago | 8 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Quicksilver
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The Largest Money-Printing Element Ever Made
Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.
[1] https://nicholas.jitkoff.com/
[2] https://qsapp.com/
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Should I worry about using Raycast on MacOS?
There are these open source alternatives, I haven’t checked their privacy policies or their code Maybe try and report back? https://www.cerebroapp.com https://qsapp.com https://ueli.app https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Verve
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Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).
The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.
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The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs
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Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
Spotlight-esque apps for enhanced keyboard driven productivity (pick one): Raycast Alfred Quicksilver
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Why is Spotlight garbage these days?
Quicksilver
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Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary
For a browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).
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Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
This is great. Reminds me of QuickSilver[1]. I'm evaluating HomeRow[2] for a VIM driving the Mac OS, will try this as well.
I love how:
a. accessibility features are making the OS more accessible for everyone through automation
b. good the accessibility implementation is on the Mac that most applications are inherently compatible with solutions like this.
[1]: https://qsapp.com/
[2]: https://www.homerow.app/
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Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
Good to see something like this, don't forget there is already an open source alternative (pre-existing) for Alfred and Raycast. It's called Quicksilver - https://qsapp.com
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Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io
Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/
I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)
murex
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Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
This is how murex works too https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/config/defaults/p...
- Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
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The Bun Shell
I agree. I’ve written about this before but this is what murex (1) does. It reimplements some of coreutils where there are benefits in doing so (eg sed, grep etc -like parsing of lists that are in formats other than flat lines of text. Such as JSON arrays)
Mutex does this by having these utilities named slightly different to their POSIX counterparts. So you can use all of the existing CLI tools completely but additionally have a bunch of new stuff too.
Far too many alt shells these days try to replace coreutils and that just creates friction in my opinion.
1. https://murex.rocks
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
This is exactly what Murex shell does. It has lots of builtin tools for querying structured data (of varying formats) but also supports POSIX pipes for using existing tools like `jq` et al seamlessly too.
https://murex.rocks
- Murex rocks v5 is out
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The Case for Nushell
Stable is a problem because a lot of these shells don’t offer any guarantees for breaking changes.
My own shell, https://github.com/lmorg/murex is committed to backwards compatibility but even here, there are occasional changes made that might break backwards compatibility. Though I do push back on such changes as much as possible, to the extent that most of my scripts from 5 years ago still run unmodified.
- Murex
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 June 2023
- Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
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Nushell.sh ls – where size > 10mb – –sort-by modified
This is similar to how my shell works. It still just passes bytes around but additionally passes information about how those bytes could be interpreted. A schema if you will. So it works as cleanly with POSIX / GNU / et al tools as it does with fancy JSON, YAML, CSV and other document formats.
It basically sits somewhere between Powershell and Bash: typed pipelines like Powershell but without sacrificing familiarity with all the CLI commands you already use day in and day out.
https://github.com/lmorg/murex
As an aside, I’m about to drop a massive update in the next few days that will make the shell even more intuitive to use.
What are some alternatives?
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
elvish - Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell
alfred-shortcuts
nushell - A new type of shell
photon - ⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library
tidy-viewer - 📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs
fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor
sol - MacOS launcher & command palette
jc - CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
KE-complex_modifications - Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules
xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.