extensions VS Maccy

I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon.

The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples:

- I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs.

- I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensions heap reaches 100 MiB, it just gets killed. That basically made it impossible to just load the matrix-sdk including crypto.

In the end I just didn't want to keep investing time in some proprietary software that doesn't allow me to do what I want to do :)

[0] https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/1544

Raycast creates an open a pull request in their repository, on your behalf!

Check the PR: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/6648

This is the repo: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/abdbd1f0a926fbe7cea5e96f0f2c62f502efa0f3/extensions/mozilla-firefox/

Raycast can do this via an extension: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/c0832985249dcb02164ea6322ca0134ca093e711/extensions/openai-gpt3/

Audit their extensions? This is an Amphethamin extension. Please take a look at the list of dependencies from npm. How much time will it take to audit? https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/34c65c7f190ad172e46c75384600aa938f932e98/extensions/amphetamine/package-lock.json

This is how fancier automations like the Raycast extension (source) are built.

Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see thorough docs and tests https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy

I've been using this: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy

The downloads are on GitHub here: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/releases

Yes. Free and open source. Here. But you can support the developer by getting it from the Mac App Store. It's worth it the price.

With Alfred you can do almost anything efficiently.  Personally, I did get its powerpack to get all of Alfred's features; clipboard history and much more. Though when it comes to clipboard history there's a free alternative: Maccy. Back to Alfred - Alfred can also create workflows that allows you to control apps, make snippets and queries directly to websites that you can customize. Watch this video to learn more.

Yep, for now.

https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/issues/130

Maccy - an open source clipboard manager that I develop got a new version 0.26 yesterday that I'm excited about. The whole changelog is in GitHub and some of the new features are making it a way more powerful tool that needs a bit more explanation, so I've decided to write this post, though I'm not sure if Reddit is the best place for this.

Maccy - Clipboard History

Maccy is an open source app, so you can inspect the source code to make sure there is nothing malicious there - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy. It's also fully sandboxed and doesn't allow outgoing communication so the data it stores never leaves your computer. All the data lives in $HOME/Library/Containers/org.p0deje.Maccy/.

Guess I should add support for iCloud in Maccy. It’s been long due https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/issues/182.