I May Have Gone Overboard with My Keyboard Shortcuts
I live and die by my keyboard. And here are the shortcuts I couldn't do without. (Maybe this post should have been titled "A Love Letter to KeybaordMaestro".)
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How to Set Custom Display Values and Localize NSPredicateEditor
Maybe the documentation has disappeared online, or maybe it was only ever available via word-of-mouth fifteen years ago, but I lost about four hours the other night trying to figure out how to make the dropdown choices in my NSPredicateEditor show user-friendly names instead their actual key paths.
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Quick Access to My Favorite Folders with Keyboard Maestro
So, I did what I almost always do when I face a situation of deep despair on my Mac. I reached for the greatest Swiss Army knife of them all – Keyboard Maestro – and came up with an incredibly lo-fi solution that isn't as feature rich as what those other apps offer or as convenient as Dock folders (when they don't disappear), but it works for me!
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Focus
As apps deviate further and further away from the HIG with custom UI, whether for design reasons or in the pursuit of a mythical, cross-platform code base that management thinks will cost less, we lose the benefits of a well reasoned platform that was formerly easy to work with and a joy to use.
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Running commands remotely on a Mac that you don’t have access to using Hazel and Dropbox
…I'm just glad I'm to the point in my nerd existence where I can be happy applying a fix and not caring about the real underlying issues that don't concern me.
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