This $600 Keyboard's Best Feature Is Also Its Biggest Flaw I always felt like my keyboard was missing something. First, it was the ergonomic split that my wrists craved. Then, when I got my Moonlander, it was the awkward reach for crucial keys (what's up with that thumb cluster ZSA?). Until one day, I stumbled upon a keyboard that seems similar, but is very much different: the Dygma Defy, a keyboard that promised to turn my thumbs into power users. The Defy arrived like a treasure chest....
11 days ago • 3 min read
THIS Is The Terminal For People Who Just Want Things To Work Picture this: You're watching a skilled developer, one that you value their skills, repeatedly hitting the up arrow key, hunting for that command they used yesterday. Then, another senior, pops up three different default terminal windows just to show you their process running, while sending requests from the other, instead of simply splitting their terminal screen. Sound familiar? That's the reality for the vast majority of terminal...
25 days ago • 2 min read
I Just Unlocked MacOS GOD MODE With Hammerspoon Ever felt like your Mac is an overprotective parent, constantly limiting what you can do? Can't open any downloaded app, can't control your own notifications, can't do anything that isn't strictly within the boundaries dictated by Apple... I just discovered a power tool that hands you the keys to the kingdom – Hammerspoon, a decade-old but criminally underrated Mac automation tool that lets you bend macOS to your will with simple Lua scripting....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Why I'm Ditching Nix Home ManagerAnd What I'm Using Instead This issue is brought to you by: Ready to Take Your Testing to the Next Level? Don’t let complex testing slow you down! With Squish, you can automate your entire UI testing process across multiple platforms, ensuring both speed and accuracy. Take a tour to see Squish for yourself! For the longest time, my dotfiles felt like a junk drawer: essential, but keeping them in order is a constant battle. Like many developers, I've been...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
One Neovim Plugin, 10x Quality of Life This issue is brought to you by: Ready to Take Your Testing to the Next Level? Don’t let complex testing slow you down! With Squish, you can automate your entire UI testing process across multiple platforms, ensuring both speed and accuracy. Take a tour to see Squish for yourself! Ever found yourself drowning in a sea of Neovim plugins, each promising to solve one small problem but collectively creating a configuration nightmare? You're not alone. Today,...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
I Was Wrong About Nushell (I Finally Get It Now) This issue is brought to you by: Ready to Take Your Testing to the Next Level? Don’t let complex testing slow you down! With Squish, you can automate your entire UI testing process across multiple platforms, ensuring both speed and accuracy. Take a tour to see Squish for yourself! There's a moment when you realize you've been looking at something all wrong. That happened to me with Nushell. I initially approached it as "just another shell,"...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Aerospace Is Probably The Best MacOS Tiling Manager I’ve Ever Used This issue is brought to you by: Ready to Take Your Testing to the Next Level? Don’t let complex testing slow you down! With Squish, you can automate your entire UI testing process across multiple platforms, ensuring both speed and accuracy. Take a tour to see Squish for yourself! Managing multiple windows on a Mac can feel like playing a never-ending game of Tetris - constantly dragging, resizing, and hunting for that one...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
I Found My Productivity MACHINE After a Decade of Keyboards This issue is brought to you by: Ready to Take Your Testing to the Next Level? Don’t let complex testing slow you down! With Squish, you can automate your entire UI testing process across multiple platforms, ensuring both speed and accuracy. Take a tour to see Squish for yourself! “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” - John Culkin, SJ, a Professor of Communication at Fordham University,...
2 months ago • 4 min read
The Cursor Experience, With Neovim's Magic This issue is brought to you by: Auth0 lets you authenticate25,000 users for free! Get Started Here! The line between human and AI-assisted coding is becoming increasingly blurred. While VS Code (oh my god I mentioned it) users have been enjoying AI assistance through GitHub Copilot or better yet, “switching” to it’s popular fork - Cursor AI, which creates an “immersive” coding experience by literally having a conversation with the code base. With...
2 months ago • 2 min read