One Thing
Put a single task or goal in your [macOS] menu bar.
Add a line of text to the menu bar, automate updates using a command line app, Shortcuts integration or the custom URL scheme.
One Thing Well
A weblog about simple, useful software.
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Cilicon
Cilicon is a macOS App that leverages Apple’s Virtualization Framework to create, provision and run ephemeral virtual machines with minimal setup or maintenance effort.
Companion apps for Apple Music
Control Music on macOS with modern recreations of the iTunes 10 MiniPlayer, the Mac OS X Tiger iTunes Dashboard widget, or the mostly-forgotten Music Player from the first Mac OS X Public Beta.
(Amusingly, I can’t try them out because my Macbook Pro is too old.)
SketchyBar
This bar project aims to create a highly flexible, customizable, fast and powerful [macOS] status bar replacement for people that like playing with shell scripts.
Datasette
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API.
Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments, scientists, researchers and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world. It is part of a wider ecosystem of 40 tools and 102 plugins dedicated to making working with structured data as productive as possible.
Bunch
Bunch is a little macOS utility that sits in your Dock (or your Menu Bar). It doesn’t have any windows. When you right/ctrl-click the Dock icon (or click the menu item), it gives you a list of “Bunches” you can select from, each one launching a group of applications that you configure.
Bunches are just easily-edited text files which can be configured to open apps, specific files in an app, and even web pages in your default browser. For the Power Users, It also allows advanced scripting, system commands, and integration via URL handler.
Rectangle
Rectangle is a window management app [for macOS] based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
ToothFairy
Connect AirPods (or other Bluetooth headphones) to your Mac with a single click or keypress.
Go64
Quickly scan your [macOS] disk for applications, see which ones are 32-bit, and find upgrade information with the click of a button.
Kakoune
Kakoune is a code editor that implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model. As it’s also a modal editor, it is somewhat similar to the Vim editor (after which Kakoune was originally inspired).
From Gregory Chamberlain’s intro to Kakoune:
Whereas vi’s keystroke language follows verb-object order, Kakoune inverts that by following object-verb order. In real terms, that means you make a selection (object) before deciding what to do (verb) with it. The object might be a character, word, sentence, paragraph, parenthetical, regular expression, you name it; the verb might be delete, yank (copy), change, indent, or even transformative operations like lint, format, uppercase, etc. In Kakoune, it is with this reversed grammar, this postfix notation, that you interactively sweep up a group or groups of characters before acting on them. That way if your object isn’t quite right, you can immediately correct it without having to undo and redo your verb.
See also:
- Kakoune, the Text Editor I Didn’t Know I Needed (including tips on setting up Kakoune on macOS)
- Why Kakoune, by developer Maxime Coste.
TenFourFox
A fork of Mozilla Firefox… for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC.
Mini vMac
The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers to run software made for early Macintosh computers, the computers that Apple sold from 1984 to 1996 based upon Motorola’s 680x0 microprocessors. The first member of this collection emulates the Macintosh Plus.