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Apps/CLIs/configs I use on macOS/iOS. Fish, Karabiner, Cursor..

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• config - Apps/CLIs/configs I use on macOS/iOS. Fish, Karabiner, Cursor..
• org
  • learn-anything
    • learn-anything.xyz - Organize world's knowledge, explore connections and curate learning paths
    • tasks - Tasks done exposed as library functions or HTTP endpoints
  • kuskus - Food/drink sharing app
• sites
  • nikiv.dev - Personal website
  • ui - Solid, Expo components/utils
• ts - TS libraries and other code
  • packages
    • ts-utils - Utils of all kind
• rust - Rust crates and other code
  • crates
    • log_macro - Macro to print variable(s) with values nicely
• python - Python libraries and other code
• go - Go libraries and other code
• swift - Swift libraries and other code
• new - Start new projects, create files quickly
  • new-app - New Solid/Grafbase/EdgeDB/Tauri app

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config's Issues

iTerm alternative

iTerm is the most competitive terminal emulator on macOS. It's of tons of functionalities. I use it since the day I start using macbook.

Recently found two terminal emulator that both using OpenGL for rendering, which make them really fast. I thought you may want to try.

Alacritty(https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) written in rust. Use yaml file for configuration. The default configuration file can be checked here. https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/blob/master/alacritty.yml

Kitty(https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty) written in c. Use .conf file for configuration. Can check out here https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/kitty/kitty.conf

They are all faster than iTerm but with less functionality (iTerm's really good at this).
I'm trying alacritty right now, cause kitty can't display Chinese character easily. And alacritty's author is currently using it on macOS while kitty aiming more on linux.

Think you may want to try.

Recommendation: Franz

A very nice list!

As you use Slack and Telegram separately you might be interested in Franz - you just need one app and you can switch between messenger platforms.

Quiver The Programmer's Notebook

I use Evernote for 90% of the time, but Quiver is really good at taking notes with code.
It supports GitHub fenced code blocks, syntax highlighting, tables, and when all else fails, HTML.
Checkout it http://happenapps.com/

update: Just found out Snippetslab does pretty much the same thing 😄 . Nice.

Password Manager

What made you choose 1Password as your password manager?
I'm currently looking into changing from the default Keychain for various reasons towards an actual password manager. I'm testing out 1Password and Enpass right now, and they seem very similar, apart from some UI differences. However, 1Password uses a subscription model while Enpass costs "$9.99 / platform". Did you try out other password managers?

SF Command

Your Desktop Screenshot shows an sf command that lists some of your mac configurations. Is that a custom script?

recommend: spectacle

can't really do much better than this app for tiling window management.
every alternative i've found is not gratis.

VS Code question

Hi @nikitavoloboev

Thanks for compiling this great list. I have a question about VS Code. Unlike Atom, VS Code won't let you add multiple project folders in the same window.

Have you worked around this issue, or is this not an issue for you at all?

Regards!

Recommendation: Charles

In addition to Paw to test your web requests, Charles (https://www.charlesproxy.com) is a must-have complement to monitor what's going on. Can't live without it.

Update command line tools with tools I use

Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo

I agree with almost all your recommendations. There are only two great alternatives (or complements) to Sketch and Pixelmator that you can try:

• Affinity Designer (for vector / UI design) — https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
• Affinity Photo (photo editing) — https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

There were some apps I didn't know of — Thank you very much for this initiative!

Recommendation: TextBar

Great list, thank you. You might be interested in my app TextBar too. Happy to give you a free license if you would like.

http://richsomerfield.com/apps/textbar/

Remove Spotifree recommendation

I'd like to have a discussion about the Spotifree recommendation.

Dislike ads and Spotify Membership although very useful does not give me a reason to switch from free version

I too dislike ads. I love Reddit. I could easely block ads on Reddit. Instead, they provide me with the option to buy "Gold" and remove ads. And that's what I do. I buy reddit gold to remove ads I don't like having.

Same goes for Spotify. They provide a way to remove advertisment. I don't find ethical to recommend people to bypass the system instead.

For personal reasons one might not be able to afford the Spotify membership, just like one might not be able to afford Reddit Gold. All I'm saying is maybe to avoid recommending people to do the same.

sVimrc link broken

Thought you would want to know :)

https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/ba7fe2b3424db340dbcf012722f6915f

Add stronghold?

I wanted to suggest adding a MacOS CLI security tool I developed to the list.

Check it out, and let me know if I should open a PR with the suggested changes!

https://github.com/alichtman/stronghold

Pixave backup to imgur - Automation ?

Do you prefer any tools to upload Pixave images to imgur ?

What do you use to write to NTFS partitions?

I come from a relentless search for tools (preferably free or opensource) to mount/read/write to NTFS partitions.

The best I've found so far was Mounty for NTFS. (but I see people saying about the fragility and loss of data)

Do you recommend any solutions?

Bee application Discontinued

Seems unfortunately Bee has been discontinued by the author.
https://www.neat.io/blog/bee-is-discontinued/

Write script to automatically sort the list.

In case I want to move an app up or down the list. It should be a painless thing to do.

Recommendation for BitBar

Must say your works great. Found lots of useful apps here.

There's a app called BitBar that run scripts, get their stdout message and print them on menu bar. Which I found really useful for monitoring servers, checking mails, maintaining simple todo list or reminder and all other simple stuffs.
It's api is simple and easy to use. Support tons of languages. It's great if we add it into the list and let others to try it.

You can check it out on its home page.

Recommendation: Magnet window manager

I just recently found out about the window manager Magnet and figured I would share it here. (It is not a window manager in the classic sense, just an app that helps snapping windows to locations)
The app is simple in what it does, but does it well and effortless in my opinion.

Suggestion for adding Sourcegraph to application list

Sourcegraph is a really nice chrome plugin that allows for faster and easier code search and browsing. Its available for free for open source projects. It adds high level of code intelligence as well to the code being browsed/searched.
I would suggest using it and if its useful then I could create a PR to add it to your project.

Sourcegraph

Recommended tiling window manager

https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm
https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

I've found these a lot more powerful than bettertouchtool, but they do require a bit of setup and exploration of docs to get working nicely, I'd suggest setting up a hyper key to help find space for some of the window tiling binds

Add all KM macros I have

Recommendation: MoneyWiz 2 (or 3 when it's released)

After trying out a lot of money management app I settled on MoneyWiz, it's simple enough yet can be complex depending on how you want it to work

How much money did you spend on this?

Total cost of all paid appz = ?

UI of Screenshot

Hey there,
at the end you showd a screenshot of your pc Info, i just wondered how you did it so cool

greetings

Write script that will automatically update all km macros

Recommendation: Magnet and Paste

I think these two apps would fit really good in your workflow

Magnet: To keep your workspace windows organised
Paste: Stores everything you copy across all your Macs and extends clipboard capacity up to unlimited.

URL Dragand is broken

Is there an alternative for the Dragand application? Thanks.

Spotify issue

... and Spotify doesn't give any discount to students from Netherlands for some reason so I just use this to get around that

They do for a few months now.

Update km macros

Requires #54

Desktop Wallpaper?

Would you be able to share the desktop wallpaper?

EDIT: And in general more of your Iterm mods. You have ScreenFetch and the external colour sheet, but how do you make it look so clean? i.e. remove top bar, remove most of the text prompts

Thanks!

can you list all the app you are using,

those in the launchpad

Desktop picture~

Where can get your mac's desktop picture?

Recommendation: LICEcap

LICEcap is a (terribly named) macOS tool for capturing an area of your desktop and saving it directly to an animated .GIF

Very handy for when you want to send a quick "video" of your screen via email or on the web. It's something I never thought I needed, but have ended up using a load over the years.

https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

1Password Alternative (and OSS)

This popped up on our internal groups the other week:

https://bitwarden.com/
https://github.com/bitwarden

I've not looked at it much yet, but could be a sound replacement for 1Password.

neofetch

I came across neofetch and it seems to be a lot faster and has more customization.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

Here's a breakdown of Screenfetch vs. Neofetch:

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs-Screenfetch/f07119fb9854f5b2c4e40574aebcb41fa4e14806

Typinator snippets

Do you have a list of your (public) Typinator snippets? I really like the look of your snippets for date/time expansion from your Fantastical article on Medium and was wondering if those were publicly available?

(or did I miss a link to them in the article?)

Similar repo

Hi there, awesome list!

I have a similar repo, maybe you'll find something useful there.
https://github.com/nik-garmash/works-for-me

Update BetterTouchTool to only use gestures and upload config

Homebrew isn't on the list

Your list is broken, if Homebrew isn't on a "nice mac apps" list, then the list is automagically invalidated.

Cakebrew is nice for those who likes gui.

Desktop wallpaper and bash PS1?

Hello I love your desktop wallpaper and the way your terminal look? can you share the terminal theme and are using bash? if so can you share your PS1 as well? :)

add keyboard maestro macros

Extend TouchBar with BTT

• My current Karabiner profile (Either Go/JS/Python/..)
• Input language
• Show event name and time until end of calendar event. Same as Next Meeting app.
• Show coffee cup when I have a break. According to my Focus schedule.

Terminal theme?

Hey,

Thanks for the very thorough guide. I've found some useful apps that I had no idea existed before.

I am, however, mostly stunned by the way your terminal looks. It seems like you're using iTerm 2 and the utility you're using to display that information is screenFetch - but what about the theme? Can you share any config files, settings etc. to achieve that look? I'm jealous, as you can see.

Thanks in advance.

How do you use 2Do?

I see you have a lot of projects in black and one in red, then grouped by DUE and WORKING.

Can you please explain how do you organize your 2Do tasks?

Quickcast no longer available

What the title says. 😉

Decrease the repo size by removing git history of big committed files

Things like KM macros or SnippetsLab library I committed should be removed. Currently the repo size with .git is ~ 65 MB. It should be more like 5 MB.

Question: What's the tool used to show system information on the command line in the screenshot towards the bottom?

Neofetch replacing Screenfetch

Neofetch is quite customizable, and much faster than ScreenFetch. Have tried both and Neofetch is ahead by a decent margin.

See: Neofetch vs Screenfetch

Thoughts?

Thanks!