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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)_/¯
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Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following:
- Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this.
- Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to configure/theme and seems well-documented.
- Hammerspoon[2] for a DIY automation/keybinding/window management sys scriptable via lua. I use a private fork of this config: https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard/tree/main
- Vivid[3] to make my macbook's screen brighter when outdoors on sunny days. This is important for me, since I try to spend as much time outside as possible.
[0] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
[2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/
[3] https://www.getvivid.app/
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MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
* MacPorts: Everything you need to make Apple Unix equivalent to a Linux box, plus more. Works with the Apple OS, not against it. Doesn't put things in weird places or expect to disable SIP etc. Updates the old versions of CLI stuff that is in the standard MacOS (eg bash, GNU utilities etc).
* iTerm2: Awesome terminal.
In terms of MacOS stuff to enhance the out-of-the-box:
* Bartender to control what shows on the menu bar https://www.macbartender.com/ (note, it has recently changed hands and people are suggesting to use "Ice" instead)
* Rectangle: To control windows and screens via the keyboard
* Arq: Better than Time Machine, allows selective backups and supports multiple destinations (OneDrive, NAS, etc)
* Monitor Control: Controls brightness across multi-screen setups https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme
* Stats: Puts various meters in your menu bar (CPU, fans, network etc) https://github.com/exelban/stats
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Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following:
- Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this.
- Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to configure/theme and seems well-documented.
- Hammerspoon[2] for a DIY automation/keybinding/window management sys scriptable via lua. I use a private fork of this config: https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard/tree/main
- Vivid[3] to make my macbook's screen brighter when outdoors on sunny days. This is important for me, since I try to spend as much time outside as possible.
[0] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
[2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/
[3] https://www.getvivid.app/
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MicDrop - Add a global "mute microphone" button in the status bar (https://getmicdrop.com/)
AltTab - Give the same (sane) behaviour to cmd+tab as alt+tab on Windows (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/)
Rectangle - Window snapping (https://rectangleapp.com/)
Maccy - A clipboard history manager (https://maccy.app/)
DropZone - Add a "shelf" zone in the same way as Dropover. It's less good than Dropover, but it's available in Homebrew (whereas Dropover is only available in the app store) (https://aptonic.com/)
Notion Calendar (previously cron) - I love having my next meetings displayed in the status bar, and its notifications are very useful (eg. they have a "join google meet" button)
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- KeepingYouAwake: a small program for the menu bar that wraps around the caffeinate command line utility [https://keepingyouawake.app/]
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If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar
- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
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if i had to recommend 1 app/script that i use daily: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs
`karabiner elements` (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) to disable things like "Apple + Q" -> nothing worse than going to close a single tab and then your whole app quits. also able to re-map caps-lock into escape, ect
`iterm2` for terminal (colored tabs are great; albeit i disable the hell out of many of the options like "clickable urls" ect)
for cli, i try to gnu all-the-things (and i just explode my PATH to the paths `brew` installed dynamically - will try another package manager at a future date)
`sublime text`
`firefox`/`librewolf` + plugins (containers, netmon, request interceptor, dark reader, adnauseam)
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* MacPorts: Everything you need to make Apple Unix equivalent to a Linux box, plus more. Works with the Apple OS, not against it. Doesn't put things in weird places or expect to disable SIP etc. Updates the old versions of CLI stuff that is in the standard MacOS (eg bash, GNU utilities etc).
* iTerm2: Awesome terminal.
In terms of MacOS stuff to enhance the out-of-the-box:
* Bartender to control what shows on the menu bar https://www.macbartender.com/ (note, it has recently changed hands and people are suggesting to use "Ice" instead)
* Rectangle: To control windows and screens via the keyboard
* Arq: Better than Time Machine, allows selective backups and supports multiple destinations (OneDrive, NAS, etc)
* Monitor Control: Controls brightness across multi-screen setups https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme
* Stats: Puts various meters in your menu bar (CPU, fans, network etc) https://github.com/exelban/stats
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yabal requires quite some privileges. Did you check out https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace ?
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Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following:
- Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this.
- Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to configure/theme and seems well-documented.
- Hammerspoon[2] for a DIY automation/keybinding/window management sys scriptable via lua. I use a private fork of this config: https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard/tree/main
- Vivid[3] to make my macbook's screen brighter when outdoors on sunny days. This is important for me, since I try to spend as much time outside as possible.
[0] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
[2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/
[3] https://www.getvivid.app/
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I'll try to point out some things I haven't seen in the list so far:
- https://github.com/zorgiepoo/Komet for Git/Hg/etc commit messages
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/multi-monitor-wallpaper/id5042... for splitting a single (large) wallpaper over multiple displays
- https://proxie.app for network traffic inspection
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/the-clock/id488764545?mt=12 for a multi timezone-aware clock
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id42944... for quickly writing/checking Regular Expressions
- https://tableplus.com for an RDBMS client
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I'll try to point out some things I haven't seen in the list so far:
- https://github.com/zorgiepoo/Komet for Git/Hg/etc commit messages
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/multi-monitor-wallpaper/id5042... for splitting a single (large) wallpaper over multiple displays
- https://proxie.app for network traffic inspection
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/the-clock/id488764545?mt=12 for a multi timezone-aware clock
- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id42944... for quickly writing/checking Regular Expressions
- https://tableplus.com for an RDBMS client
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MicDrop - Add a global "mute microphone" button in the status bar (https://getmicdrop.com/)
AltTab - Give the same (sane) behaviour to cmd+tab as alt+tab on Windows (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/)
Rectangle - Window snapping (https://rectangleapp.com/)
Maccy - A clipboard history manager (https://maccy.app/)
DropZone - Add a "shelf" zone in the same way as Dropover. It's less good than Dropover, but it's available in Homebrew (whereas Dropover is only available in the app store) (https://aptonic.com/)
Notion Calendar (previously cron) - I love having my next meetings displayed in the status bar, and its notifications are very useful (eg. they have a "join google meet" button)
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I use MeetingBar for the menubar calendar... open source. https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar
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zed
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Latest
A small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
Latest is a modern, OSS replacement for Bodega (IIUC). https://github.com/mangerlahn/latest
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Perhaps relevant, I'm working on a repo for indexing IT repair tools (I call it Hacker Tools) for Windows, Mac, Linux. I'm looking for contributions and feedback.
https://github.com/neontomo/hacker-tools
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I use Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst in my day to day. Slightly different management philosophy but one that works well for me.
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