your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

like my new work computer setup I installed Vim with MacVim and Python with their installer

yeah i don't use homebrew python

one of the reasons it's slow is this *insane* default setting:

       HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS
              If set, Homebrew will only check for autoupdates once per this seconds interval.
              Default: 60.

i.e. by default, it does something that takes as long as a few minutes, every time you use it, unless you've used it in the last 60 seconds!

the hell

it's insane that the unit of that setting is even seconds!

typical unix innit?

man, the syncing interface is DUMB. if the music app—which you probably have to open separately if you ever do any tweaking of playlist contents to get them to fit as you change their contents—is open then it gets an item for an attached ipod, and it has an 'eject' menu item that doesn't eject, and in the finder if you try to eject after syncing while the music app is open it won't eject because some of its resources are open for the music app!

are there any hoonja-doonjas that enable a focused-writing-style interface in any text field that gets handled by the os, like textedit windows? i mean the kind of thing that fills the screen, darkens other text but highlights the current line, etc., that are popular now.

i can do this with other apps but i like to do it and it'd be nicer if i could do it when i wanted within normal apps.

TextMate used to have an edit in textmate thing, but I don't know if that still works.

https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose

i am shook

https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/10/8/brew-bundle
https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

understanding the dependencies here gave me a headache

hmmm I guess that would have been useful back when I was breaking work machines every six months

there's a cool-looking native Gmail client called Mimestream

but it requires Catalina so I guess I'll never get to try it

anybody using Brave?

i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh

'volunteer to watch ads in exchange for bitcoin' is certainly a weird USP

Firefox with sync is great these days imo

i like Opera for some reason. i’ve forgotten why.

you like the arts

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility

*holds spectacle so close*

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend

hey what's up rectangleeeee

I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?

i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er

no joke though, i did just install rectangle, and i do appreciate it's added options (especially being able to use + and - to make windows just a tad larger or smaller, which feels intuitive because it's similar to the feeling of using the same keys to zoom in/out in other apps)

its

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

Alt-tab app not great for me. It'll bring up the window previews and tick through them but doesn't focus when I let go.

I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/

so this was like the Mac analogue to Winamp?

Yeah - it had a bewildering amount of skins, and until iTunes came along (it nearly became iTunes) it was probably the best MP3 playing app.

I’m an idiot,
how do I install skins (faces?)
Link in app gives a 404
I downloaded the pack but can’t drag and drop and no installer

File menu -> Open Faces Folder
then copy whatever faces you want, or all of them, into that directory. each face is a directory within their archive zip

then if you go into preferences, they show up in the list

of course they'd already written those directions: they're at the bottom of the README.md on this page:
https://dev.panic.com/panic/audion

https://xbarapp.com/

and https://hmarr.com/blog/vitals/

that looks fun, thanks

will hopefully replace "cmd-tab to terminal, ctl-r pi enter" to ping and "new chrome tab, type weather, erase .com, hit enter" for weather

every few months/years I look into finding a good solution to sync and/or transfer my bookmarks from chrome to safari so I can quit chrome, for a bit, or forever and usually find nothing good. Thought I finally found something with this:

http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookmacster.html

downloaded it and it's literally the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I mean I've barely started using it so maybe it'll be obvious once I do, but this thing is not gonna win any UI/UX contests.

xbar doesn't like me. well, it doesn't like the fact that I'm still on Mojave.

me too

oh not xbar, that other one, vitals.

I guess I'm finally comfortable upgrading to Catalina. Big Sur will have to wait until I get my hands on a 16" M1 MBP.

how many gams?

4 gams

I’m on big sir and honestly it’s very good

dan maybe too easy but worth a shot. the File menu of Safari has this option?

https://i.imgur.com/3PofkiL.png

Yeah but it’s a one time thing that only goes one way.