maestral
hammerspoon
Our great sponsors
maestral | hammerspoon | |
---|---|---|
15 | 114 | |
2,998 | 11,479 | |
- | 1.4% | |
9.0 | 7.3 | |
7 days ago | 20 days ago | |
Python | Objective-C | |
MIT License | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
maestral
-
Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
maestral is an open source Mac/Linux client. Just one example, I’m sure there are others.
-
New Dropbox client moves files from –/ to –/Library
Worth mention the open source project Maestral: https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
(an unofficial Dropbox client)
-
If you're archiving stuff to a cloud-synced folder, you NEED a strategy for ensuring ongoing integrity.
Sometime late last fall, my NAS rebooted and my ZFS pools didn't come back online automatically, but Docker did automatically restart the Maestral client. In so doing, it detected an empty folder...and...promptly deleted EVERYTHING in my Dropbox, assuming I'd just deleted everything locally. It's an issue that has had at least a few bug reports and which as of yet still hasn't been addressed - basically, the client needs but does not have a way to say "a bunch of stuff is changing, are you sure?" before doing it - especially on a restart of the client.
-
Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu
>- Debug apps which don't opt into debugging, using gdb/lldb, without disabling SIP. It's my computer, I should be root, I should be able to introspect how processes execute on it. Not being able to do so prevented me from debugging https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/597, since I had to disable SIP, which required rebooting, which stopped the bug from happening.
Another option is to re-sign the application with the entitlements necessary for debugging.
e.g:
https://gist.github.com/talaviram/1f21e141a137744c89e81b58f7...
-
Dropbox Client or 3rd party client for Mac Mini M1?
there is a native build as beta, but I found Maestral much better :) https://github.com/samschott/maestral
-
Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon
3) No support for extended file attributes (so you cannot sync .app bundles)
[1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral/issues/443
-
Nine Raspberry Pis power this entire office
If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks.
Other commentators mentioned pihole/DNS, WireGuard, and music streaming, but you can also use them for a (slow) NFS server, persistent Syncthing node, Maestral host[1] (third-party Dropbox client written in Python (that can actually run on the Raspberry Pi, unlike the official Dropbox client)), or device that maintains a connection to a distributed network (e.g. Hyporborea/cjdns).
[1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
-
First new ThinkPad in awhile: An x270 I nabbed for cheap & installed my first Linux on :)
I'd been reading up on Linux for the last little bit, learning about different distros and what things to look out for - so when this thing arrived I jumped onto the latest Fedora release & am really enjoying it. I've tweaked some Gnome extensions, gotten my favorite writing app downloaded, set up the awesome Maestral open-source Dropbox client, and set up a decent little undervolt using intel-undervolt, mprime, cinebench, and glmark2 :)
-
Hacker News top posts: Aug 12, 2021
Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support\ (147 comments)
- Maestral - A light-weight and open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux
hammerspoon
-
Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
-
Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
For basic window tiling, I stumbled across Hammerspoon and the MiroWindowsManager spoon.
https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
-
[Hammer Control] Hammerspoon + SelfControl = Scheduling SelfControl
I use hammerspoon a lot and it seemed like scheduling SelfControl could be done using it so I created Hammer Control. Check it out!
-
A collection of useful Mac Apps
Hammerspoon - Price: Free Desktop automation tool for macOS that allows you to write Lua scripts to control your Mac.
- Needed: Automation extension that can repeat movements/clicks in a browser
-
getting current desktop to show on lockscreen? (MacOS Ventura)
Assuming no one has a cut-and-dried solution that just works, would something like this be possible with say, AppleScript or another scripting tool like Hammerspoon? I've not used either of these tools before, but would be open to seeking out a scripting solution on my own if it's viable. Or am I going to run into insurmountable security restrictions?
- Ask HN: Scrolling Window Manager for macOS?
-
Fastest way to open Messages?
Spark (not the email app). There are others like Hotkey and Hammerspoon.
-
Window Management & Snapping
I have tried different tools for this including Rectangle, but I've finally settled with hammerspoon. It solves the problem of window-management but you can also use it to create custom keyboard shortcuts and much more.
What are some alternatives?
onedrive - OneDrive Client for Linux
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
assembler - A modern UI framework
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
darts - A python library for user-friendly forecasting and anomaly detection on time series.
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
Mosh - Mobile Shell
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
openmtp - OpenMTP - Advanced Android File Transfer Application for macOS
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
kivy - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
ShockEmu - Keyboard support for Dualshock emulation for PS Remote Play (macOS)