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I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far:

https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal

https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

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KeepingYouAwake is nice (and I'm not about to pretend the following solution is good for everyone), however, I've found on the last couple of McBook fresh installs using caffeinate [1] from the terminal is sufficient.

I usually have a terminal open anyway and `caffeinate -d -t 999999` usually does what I want (stay awake until I come back and tell you to go to sleep). Usually it's two keystrokes away (up arrow, enter), if not, that's quick enough to type for my purposes. That said, it's a bad approach if you want to suggest it as a tool for someone's workflow who _doesn't_ have a terminal open all of the time.

[1] https://ss64.com/osx/caffeinate.html

You can omit the -t and it will run forever.

I tend to use caffeinate to wrap scripts only. I want it to go to sleep and stop eating all my electricity when it’s done.

you can throw an alias in your .bashrc or .zshrc and have it even easier...

alias caffeine="caffeinate -d -t 999999"

I'm a huge, huge fan of hammerspoon. It's replaced so many other small utilities for me.

When I started using a Mac for work, the fact that so much functionality which is available free on Linux was now locked behind a paywall in the App Store was frustrating.

Hammerspoon gave me basically all of it back, in a scriptable form which makes it much better suited to what I want. It’s truly great software.

Yah I’ve been able to implement so many different features, and I love doing it myself not just because I don’t have to spend money on software (I’m perfectly willing to do that). I just hate having a myriad of single use third party utilities scattered around my hard drive and cluttering up my OS. I don’t know if I’ve just become more aware, or apps have gotten worse, but so many apps have opaque and undesirable behaviours / scopes nowadays.

Along the same vein, this was posted a little while back on HN which lists a few other ones that I have found useful.

https://onethingwell.org/

I've been using CyberDuck since PowerPC 10.5. I don't open it much any more because sftp feels like it takes less effort (despite the lack of autocomplete on Mac) but I do keep it installed. I can also vouch for ItsyCal, another one of the first things I install on a fresh Mac.

Thanks for this! I was going to mention Spectacle[0], but I'll see that it's no longer maintained. I'll have to check out Rectangle :)

EDIT: I see Rectangle is based on Spectacle!

[0] https://www.spectacleapp.com/

I also used to run Spectacle and was worried about it no longer working at some point (like after a macOS upgrade).

Rectangle is all that Spectacle was – same default key bindings – and more.

I would like to add stats[0] to the list, which is a great open source replacement for iStat Menus

[0] - https://github.com/exelban/stats

It's not open source but this is one of my favorites: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/IPinmenubar.shtm...

Related tip: if you hold Option and you click on the WiFi menu icon it'll show a detailed view which includes your local IP.

This can be done using xbar, trivially.

CyberDuck is amazing! (MountainDuck also) Thanks for recommending mate

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