KBkbd·Oct 3, 2025
I wonder how much of my Hammerspoon config I could replace with this...
Edit: upon reflection, not much actually: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/2eaeaecf76c22be3ecef5c8563...
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25 sourcesFound a config that seems much cleaner than my lua mess and at a glance it has the key tiling functions[1]. Check set-window-fraction function and its callsites.
[1]: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/main/HOME/.hammerspoon/ini...
In Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customizationTextual trending to a new de-facto basis for cross-platform gui apps is a HUGE improvement from every new app being js and Electron!
Not to mention replacing heavy Java gui apps as well! The myriad DB guis for whatever historical reason have mostly been slow heavy, and paid, Java apps.
I'd actually written a thing that integrated cli db tools(eg [1]) with kitty[2] and visidata to show a query editor and then results underneath in a kitty split pane. Now I've been using Harlequin[3] in my terminal. So nice to have these apps be fast programs that live in a terminal tab instead of their own bloated poorly-keyboard-driven Electron apps.
[1] https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/main/HOME/.config/litecli/...
[2] https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/main/HOME/bin/kw
[3] https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/
In Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminalI moved my Hammerspoon config to Fennel and haven't looked back either. The code becomes much more concise vs Lua.
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.hammerspoon/i...
In Why Fennel?Agree I use fzf extensively in my git aliases:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co...
Perfect example: my "cherry pick" alias:
cp = !git pick-branch | xargs git pick-commits | tac | xargs -t git cherry-pick
Those "pick-" aliases pop up fzf to let me choose a branch, then commits to cherry pick. No more copying hashes anywhere.
Similarly, my alias for git add lets me fzf-select a list of files to stage based on what "git status" reports.
In So you've installed `fzf` – now what?To show off the power of fzf, I should share my fzr ("fzf repl") script:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/bin/fzr
Basically, prefix any jq command (or rg, or anything you can think of) with fzr and it'll give you an interactive interpreter for your query. People have written a number of dedicated jq interactive repls, but not much is needed beyond fzf.
In So you've installed `fzf` – now what?https://github.com/kbd/binrun
I just wrote it today and still need to package it. I was tired of alt+tab + up arrow + enter constantly to execute builds etc. in my terminal. It calls out to a kitty wrapper script I wrote[1] that (eg) queries kitty for its running windows so that when I launch from vscode it can find the right kitty window for the vscode workspace and execute there...
Point is, Kovid Goyal is awesome and the extensibility he wrote into kitty makes all that possible. I didn't know he was also the author of Calibre for a long time.
[1] https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/bin/kw
In New in Calibre 6.0Everything is source-controlled: https://github.com/kbd/setup
In Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?Here’s what I do for that (aliased to ‘p’): https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/d95653da5ab367b1e628b97537...
In Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactivelyThe only part I left out is that as part of my shell config I automatically alias all my short git aliases (as well as a few special cases). So “gcp” -> “git cp” etc.
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/d95653da5ab367b1e628b97537...
In Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactivelyIf anyone cares, I do something similar with my git aliases: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co...
So, "ga" similarly gives a fuzzy finder of files to "git add" that are actually in git status, "gcp" lets me cherry pick one or more commits from a branch where both the branch and commits are picked with fzf, and so on.
In Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactivelyIf anyone cares, here's my config: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.hammerspoon/i...
It shows off a tiny bit of what you can do with Hammerspoon:
- window and app management
- keyboard shortcuts for common apps (eg. hyper+T for text editor, hyper+B for browser, hyper+S for shell)
- if you can code a tiny bit of Lua there's no need for apps like Spectacle, Rectangle, Moom, etc. because it's easy to position apps wherever you want. eg. hyper+L arranges my browser+editor+terminal in a standard layout, and I have other shortcuts to set apps to halves or thirds of the screen, or to another monitor.
- fuzzy-find popups (like Alfred/fzf) are built-in. I use it to choose audio input/output.
- a replacement for Caffeine (menubar icon to keep computer from going to sleep)
I have my "hyper" key bound to caps lock using K
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arabiner Elements (but it still works as a normal caps lock if you hold it for half a second). Here's that config: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/karabi...
I'll put it this way: Nu shell seems perfectly supportive of my philosophy that a shell is basically a REPL for a computer, and they're taking the ergonomics of an interactive REPL along with the programming language that powers that REPL seriously.
The thing is, there's currently NOTHING GOOD for "shell scripting". Shell sucks (yes it does), so for anything more than very short things I'd rather write Python. But Python sucks for shell-like things, parallelization, it has slow startup, and you also can't do things like put environment variables into your session or change the working directory, so you often wind up writing shims (eg. Broot's br alias - https://dystroy.org/broot/install-br/).
Yes I've looked at Xonsh but maybe the additional syntax is offputting to me. Like, I wouldn't use it as a shell over Zsh (how's Xonsh's fzf support
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? I don't know, but I know everything's going to support Zsh), and I dunno if I want to use its syntax extensions over just Python. Though It's always on my list of things to re-explore, and maybe it'll click one day. But it being based in Python makes it feel slow (I wrote my prompt in Zig to get it to be fast...)
This is relevant to mention: I wrote a small Python library (https://github.com/kbd/aush) that's basically a DSL for subprocesses, so it tries to make it more convenient to do shell-like things. I find it preferable to shell or Python alone most of the time. Here's an example of its use in my script that creates a new Python project: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/bin/create-pyt...
I haven't figured out a convenient way to implement shell piping well with Python's pipe operator, or pass through interactive output directly (so things that "update" the display, like poetry and npm don't behave the same as they do interactively) so it's still .9 status, but it works really well for what it is, and you can always write "regular Python" along with it.
Anyway, Nu seems to be an attempt to put a "real" programming language REPL in my shell, from people who have serious language experience, so I'm hopeful it'll be great.
Just sharing my take on that interactive jq (or anything else) repl:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/bin/fzr
It's just an fzf wrapper that sets up temporary files and so on. It works really well; it's amazing all the things one can use fzf for.
In Extracting Objects Recursively with JqSince we're sharing, my dotfiles setup has pretty much reached its final form. I use my symgr[1] to symlink my dotfiles repo into my home dir. Pretty much everything I think about this topic is in its readme, as well as a link to my setup[2] repo with my dotfiles showing how I use symgr.
[1] https://github.com/kbd/symgr
[2] https://github.com/kbd/setup
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