#28

And it might be. I think this is a workflow thing. I, for one, havenā€™t looked back since making the switch. (Actually, hey, maybe I should ā€” itā€™s possible, like spotlight, that the gap has been narrowed in the years since!)

This may well be a topic for another thread but my 2 cents is that this is overly cautionary and throws the baby out with the bathwater for most people. Honestly, writing open source software is my day job and Iā€™d be happy NEVER to have to build another dependency from source again. Regrettably, I have to sometimes but Iā€™ll take what I can get to keep that at a minimum!

(Sorry if it seems like Iā€™m trolling. Cheers @mzero! )

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#29

I have. Also tried Slate, Moom and Hammerspoon. KWM is more like a real tiled window manager like XMonad or Awesome. Havent setup shortcuts yet. Mainly use alt+cmd+h for full screening stuff, the rest is being taken care of :slight_smile:

Coded a complete window manager with Hammerspoon and added some shortcuts/modals for external api requests (of my Logitech Media Server). Lua is a cute programming language. Have to say I need to install it again after my reinstall :slight_smile:

Using Cog (brew cask install cog) myself, probably it works with the itunes lib as it play everything. It hasnt been updated in years though.

I found that vim-mode-plus has the nicest vim emulation

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#30

I use Logitech Media Server too, weā€™ve got a few of the pre-Logitech Squeezeboxes dotted around our house.

Not sure if youā€™re aware, but itā€™s possible to use your computer as an LMS client with squeezelite, this is what I do on my computer instead of bothering with iTunes et al.

#31

Nah, weā€™re all good! :grinning:

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#32

The question seemed to be asked by someone looking to use a Mac for development, and given that: yes, I would recommend brew to all developers unhesitatingly.

Issues around distribution, however, are complex when expecting resources to be available on a system, and in general, thereā€™s a reason compiled executables are good things (and why, though I donā€™t write it, I greatly like Goā€™s approach to making binaries). The built-in versions of (most open-source libraries) vary so wildly between OSX versions (especially when it comes to things like Perl, Apache, Ruby, etc) that I long stopped trusting the idea the built-in version would work. I think the only built-in open source product I use with regularity is the Apache install, and I got bit when they bumped it from 2.2 to 2.4.

I should caveat that: I only tend to program for either a) myself, b) hosted environments I will be in control of or able to specify and c) other developers. But as a developer, brew is a vital tool, and life is too short for me to be compiling Imagemagick or Elasticsearch from source.

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#33

Seconding thisā€¦ Iā€™ve got my music needs pretty well handled by Spotify and an old laptop that I leave plugged in to my stereo. I can just remote control it over the network.

For me, Alfred just seems like MORE complexity. Kind of loving how OSX has robust enough utilities that I only need to replace what ACTUALLY bothers me.

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#34

Iā€™m a fan of Autojump, for quickly navigating directories (or opening Finder windows) from the terminal.

Anyone else using Fish? :grin:

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#35

yeah, I am very fond of j.

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#36

fellow fish shell and fish editor user here :wink:

autojump seems like a more feature rich version of z, will check out!

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#37

Completely off-topic, but I make it a point to thank everyone I meet who was on that team. Thank you for making our world a better place.

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#38

This is so wonderful! Also, I actually completely agree on regular Terminal (so far) but iTerm2ā€™s Hotkey Window and not wanting to have two terminal emulators open all the time has kind of forced my hand.
The font recommendation is also swell! Iā€™ve been using PT Mono and am ready for a change.

I read through your argument against and jasonw22ā€™s argument for brew and am thankful to have all this in the back of my mind now. Iā€™m a student and package managers are what drew me to Linux because it saved me so much time. I think Iā€™m going to stick with homebrew for now, but itā€™s valuable to know about that other reality out there!

Man, I wish. But I spend so much time SSHā€™d in to headless machines that Iā€™m gonna keep working at some serious vim chops.

#39

its not either/or for vi and sublime textā€¦ use both :slight_smile:

vi is perfect for quick edits or as you say remote edits, but whilst you can ā€˜navigateā€™ with it (via ctags etc)ā€¦ its not as intuitive.

I resisted (since Ive used it for so long ;)) using anything other than vi (and various IDEs) for quite a while, but the great thing about sublime is not only is it extremely fast, but you can also run in on mac/windows/linuxā€¦

sure, on the PI/BBB I use vi for small edits, whilst doing my main edits on mac/linux and syncing via git/rsync.

oh, also remember you can push X displays to macOS (ssh -X) , so you can get X apps on the PI (or whatever) back to your mac. (best over a decent ethernet connection)

homebrew, I use sparinglyā€¦ but its useful.
if your releasing projects, then sure could be an issue, but its best to test on (an old ) mac that has no dev software, or a vm.

vmware (or parallels), is the one bit of software id struggle to do without.

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#40

Ok, THAT is really useful. Wow.

I just want to thank everyone in this thread AGAIN. This place is so great.

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#41

Apropos of nothing, Iā€™ll just throw in that Audio Hijack is one of Earthā€™s best pieces of software.

Also: Lumen!

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#42

I donā€™t actually use that many; but the things I use all the time that Spotlight doesnā€™t do are (a) navigated around Finder with the keyboard; (b) restart and Ā© eject drive

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#43

Man. Where has this been all my life? SO AWESOME.

Thanks a million for turning me on!

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#44

A humble vote in favour of Homebrew here. Iā€™ve compiled enough software from source to know dependency hell and love how Homebrew takes that pain away. Also with Xcodeā€™s ā€œownershipā€ of command-line tools these days, sometimes I really canā€™t be bothered ./configure-make-install-ing things. I didnā€™t like Homebrew at first but it has matured.

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#45

This is a really key point. There was much pain in the early days. I havenā€™t encountered any in a good while though.

#46

Just setup a new mac and remembered this thread. A few things to add/reemphasize:

  • bartender is great for taking back your menu bar
  • since I last posted, Iā€™ve fallen in love with alfred for application launching (and more)
  • Iā€™m a big fan of 1password for password management

More generally, anyone on a unix system who uses git should consider these git completion scripts; so awesome.

#47

For all the people using Better Touch Tool on Mac OSX, I have a question about monitor volume control with a UA Apollo audio interface. (BTW this app is a godsend for me).

So, I own an Apollo x6 audio interface hooked up to my MacBook Pro (w/ touchbar), and itā€™s kind of inconvenient to control the monitor volume from the hardware because itā€™s a bit far from the computer. As far as I know the only way one can control the volume independently of the hardware is the key command āŒ˜ + F11/12. Right now I have BTT configured to control the monitor volume by tapping the top right (vol. up) & bottom right (vol. down) of my touchpad mapped to those key commands, this works great but I wonder if there is a way to control the volume by sliding my finger up and down the right side of the touchpad? I imagine this may be possible with a script, since BTT supports writing in your own script? Or maybe use the built in midi configuration triggers?