Things I worked out while building these apps — window layouts, quick files, and chasing powder days on a Mac.
Rectangle, Magnet, Moom, Amethyst and Staged manage Mac windows in very different ways. Which to pick by how you actually work, from the maker of one of them.
Read →OpenSnow, Snow-Forecast, Windy and Powder Alert answer will it dump in different ways. What each is good at on a Mac, from the maker of one of them.
Read →Every developer needs a throwaway file ten times a day: a JSON blob, a curl response, a snippet. How to stop opening a heavy editor for a two-line paste.
Read →Subscription fatigue is real. Mac utilities that still sell a one-time licence, why the model is getting rarer, and the questions to ask before you buy one.
Read →Resort snow reports do not cover your trailhead. How to monitor snowfall at exact backcountry coordinates on a Mac, and what a forecast alert cannot tell you.
Read →Stage Manager parks your apps in a side strip and leaves the rest of a big display empty. Here is how to fill that space properly, by hand or in one click.
Read →Rectangle moves one window at a time; Staged arranges all of them at once. A straight comparison of what each does well, from the person who built one of them.
Read →macOS has no New Text File command in Finder. Four ways to make one fast: TextEdit, Terminal, a Finder Quick Action, and a menu bar app that skips the ceremony.
Read →Pasting JSON into an online formatter uploads it to someone else server. Four offline ways to pretty-print JSON on macOS, from a one-line pipe to one click.
Read →Stop refreshing resort snow reports every morning. How to set up automatic powder day alerts on a Mac, from a free DIY script to an app that watches for you.
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