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skhd
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My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).
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Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) along with skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience.
Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve.
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K).
It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.
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App Switcher on MAC
Try rcmd or skhd.
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i3 Linux -> macOS
What I've done is configure yabai and skhd in a way that somewhat mimics my i3 setup (dotfiles in case it helps) with the help of Karabiner-Elements since Apple wouldn't recognize my keyboard layout properly (or at all...).
- Ask HN: I've run Linux for 13 years. Is it time to switch to a Mac?
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Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
I use NixOS+GNOME+pop-shell for tiling windows on Linux, and I love it!
I am quite frequently on MacOS, and I use Yabai[0] and skhd[1], managed with Nix-Darwin for tiling windows and custom keyboard shortcuts. With how I make my Linux and MacOS builds look and feel identical it's pretty easy for me to forget when I'm on one vs the other.
For anyone curious, here's my repository for deploying my configs[3]. It's awesome to have one source of truth for managing NixOS servers and workstations, MacOS workstations, and other Linux workstations with Nix installed.
[0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
[2] http://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/
[3] https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs
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How to disable CMD+TAB in Terminal
You can install skhd with brew install skhd, and configure it by writing the following lines inside ~/.skhdrc:
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Recommendation for an app to execute a workflow with some hotkey !
I personally use skhd for binding hotkeys to multiple terminal commands. BetterTouchTool can also chain multiple commands, but I find it harder to edit than in an UI, depends on what you're comfortable with.
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Alternatives to Karabiner?
That, combined with skhd (for script hotkeys) and my rcmd app (for app switching) gave me a much better solution than the hard to edit config I had in Karabiner.
macOCR
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I've just released TextShot, a *free* macOS app that makes copying text from images as easy as taking a screenshot
I love using macOCR it is a command line tool though, but I bind it to a keyboard shortcut using BetterTouchTool, although you could also use Raycast, Alfred, etc to run it
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NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
Mac only but I am a happy user and can recommend
https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
Just rediscovered the Shortcuts a couple days ago while installing it on a friend's mac.
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Introducing macOCR - a command line tool that revolutionizes how you capture text on your screen!
With just one command, you can instantly convert any text on your screen into text on your clipboard, making it easy to use in any app or program. Plus, with support for popular launcher apps like Alfred, LaunchBar, and Hammerspoon, it's never been easier to access the power of macOCR.
And if you're feeling really advanced, you can even use it to feed data into an OpenAI large language model for advanced text processing.
Upgrade your text capture game with macOCR today!
Price: $0
MRR: $0
Copy reworked by: GPT
Prompt: “Rewrite for hacker news upvotes:”
URL: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Pretty insane. If you don’t want to use iPhones, I made a while back macOCR which uses the same vision APIs, with a very simple CLI interface. See: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
https://github.com/schappim/macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard
- MacOCR – command line OCR app for macOS
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Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day
And if you want to invoke it from Terminal: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
- Asking Siri to hold a number in memory?
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen[1].
macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.
You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.
[1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #20
schappim/macOCR – Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
What are some alternatives?
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
awesome-mac - Awesome environment for development with mac os.
bitbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
TRex - Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
ossdatabase - Source for ossdatabase.com
simple-bar - A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht
ping-heatmap - A tool for displaying subsecond offset heatmaps of ICMP ping latency