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kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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BetterDisplay
Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!
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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.
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selfcontrol
:skull: Mac app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.
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- Hammerspoon: Powerful Automation of macOS
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Key, in sight [Creative uses of keyboard shortcuts and macros]
Two notes:
For buying new keys, there are many inexpensive (non-mechanical) USB number pads you can get for $10 or less. It's a good way to get started before committing to something more expensive.
For software, Hammerspoon [0] is a free option that can handle arbitrary key mappings/macros; however, you'll have to program it yourself, it's more of a hacker's tool than something with a friendly UI.
0: https://www.hammerspoon.org/
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Hammerspoon: The macOS Automation Powerhouse You're Not Using (But Should Be)
# Using Homebrew (recommended) brew install --cask hammerspoon # Or download from https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/releases
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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I think for preexisting solutions, the "best" one is Rectangle Pro, but it isn't free, so maybe that doesn't count. That said, eventually I realized I don't even want the whole "window split" stuff and I'd prefer to just have a few keybinds that throw windows into specific coords on my screens, so I installed Hammerspoon (free) and wrote a screen's worth of Lua to do this for myself. It is written for my two adjacent 1440p monitors and personal preferences, but the code is really obvious so if you're comfortable with making your own bespoke solution, this is pretty nice, and free.
* https://www.hammerspoon.org/
* https://gist.github.com/joedrago/bfc54f4083b070fe998d519cc6c...
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Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
Use Hammerspoon [0][1], it comes with a lot of macOS integrations out of the box and you write Lua, which takes zero effort to pick up and use. For me a big benefit is that you don't need to touch Xcode at all.
[0] https://www.hammerspoon.org
[1] https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.menubar.html
- Hammerspoon: A tool for powerful automation of OS X
- Hammerspoon: A tool for powerful automation of macOS
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
I don't have a makefile example, but I do functionally the same thing with shell scripts.
I let GitHub actions do things like the initial environment configuration and the post-run formatting/annotation, but all of the actual work is done by my scripts:
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/blob/master/.gith...
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www.saashub.com | 15 Jul 2026
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Hammerspoon/hammerspoon is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of hammerspoon is Objective-C.
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