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jaywcjlove
awesome-mac
Swift2016–2023
jaywcjlove / awesome-mac

awesome-mac

 This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.

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What it is

 This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-08-21 13:27:00 UTC to 2023-08-23 15:18:57 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
ransackdev·Aug 23, 2023
A large number of extremely talented engineers might beg to differ. Everything you listed as an issue has a solution. Like any operating system, you have to spend the time to learn the intricacies of how it works and to customize it to your liking. For me, must haves are Alfred to replace spotlight, my dotfiles which change a ton of defaults in various apps like finder, the dock, etc, setup key repeat, iterm2 colors and profile, etc. divvy and magnet for window management. Caffeine to prevent sleep. Stats open source menu monitors to replace istatmenus I’m sure there are newer equivalents to what I’ve listed. I’ve been using those programs for years. Some jumping off points https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/cask-install/30d/
In macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits
torqu3e·Aug 17, 2022
$ brew list -1 ==> Formulae bash bash-completion bat flyctl kubectx kubernetes-cli mosh ripgrep # way better grep starship # awesome terminal prompt wget ==> Casks aldente # stop your mac from charging beyond a configurable charge level bitwarden brave-browser ears # switch audio source/output quickly kitty # awesome terminal raycast # spotlight/alfred replacement rectangle # window manager (successor to the unmaintained spectacle) shottr # screenshotting app signal spotify stats # hardware stats in the menu bar visual-studio-code vlc zoom https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac is a list of all the cool stuff you could need on a new mac organized by category.
In Ask HN: Must have tools for a new MacBook

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