Going Mouseless

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  • vimari

    Safari port of vimium

  • I do similar but on mac and using Safari. https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari is great for this.

    So is Karabiner (https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macos/macos-apps/karabiner) to map opening apps to two keys.

  • vimac

    Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

  • If you're using MacOS and are looking for system-wide Vimium, checkout out Vimac[1]. Works really well!

    [1]: https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • sway

    i3-compatible Wayland compositor

  • i3

    A tiling window manager for X11

  • If you're on linux, consider trying a tiling wm like i3 [0] or sway (wayland) [1]. Windows automatically place themselves in a nice place, and it's extremely (if not entirely) keyboard driven & pretty configurable.

    [0]: https://i3wm.org/

  • SlickCursor

    A mouse emulator with vision

  • My attempt to make a practical keyboard-driven cursor app for Windows:

    https://github.com/ndandoulakis/SlickCursor

  • typer

    Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

  • As pointed out in another comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068986 ), the people who know sed and vim are likely to be power users, which are a really small part of the populace.

    Sure, there are text replace tools within most programs, but that doesn't mean that even half of the people using computers will know how to use them, or will ever bother to learn, when there are alternatives available. To that end, it makes sense to optimize for either of the easiest approaches, be it either using basic keyboard commands or the mouse.

    That's also why GUIs are more popular for personal computing, as opposed to CLIs, or TUIs. Of course, CLIs could also be improved ( think tar vs docker UX, which can be achieved with something like https://typer.tiangolo.com/ ) and TUIs are also somewhat underused (nmtui, ncdu and many others are great pieces of software).

    As for the actual amount of money spent - that is indeed a "yikes", how does someone even spend so much?

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