So last night I decided I was going to try using Safari/Webkit DevTools. I asked myself: What is Firefox Developer Edition/Chrome DevTools giving me that Safari DevTools isn’t? I thought I’d try it out for a couple of weeks…
I also asked myself the same thing about iTerm2, so I also decided to try out the basic macOS Terminal application.
But of course I’m a stickler for UI consistency. It took a while for me to get VSCode to look like Webkit DevTools, but I have to say I really like it!
Updates
August 5, 2024
iTerm is back as my Terminal. Why: Panes. I just didn’t like how Terminal.app did panes, and I had a few cases where I wanted to use panes. E.g. I was using a command to transcribe some audio to text using whisper but I also needed to watch htop because it was really eating at my CPU. I needed a Pane…
Native unless I have a need
So my philosophy on this has been to ask myself if a native macOS app provides what I need. As soon as I need something I cannot get a native app to provide me, I’ll move on to alternatives.
Like Raycast, it turned out I only used 3% of Raycast—Spotlight has been just fine since I switched.
Jul 15, 2024
Ditched Raycast
I’ve also ditched Raycast. I, again, asked myself if I really use it. I don’t think I do. I could, sure, but in reality I only use about 10% of it. So I disabled it (still going to use the AI features I paid for). Installed a snippet and clipboard history tool, enabled Spotlight, and have moved on.
Jun 11, 2024
So far I am still using the baked-in macOS Terminal and Webkit.
Terminal
I have had a few times where it acted wonky, but I always load up what I’m doing in iTerm and it almost always turned out it also happened in iTerm.
Things that I have had to settle on though
iTerm let’s you remap right ⌘ to CTRL, I can’t do that in Terminal, that’s fine with me, just remaped alt-s in micro and called it a day
No panes (but panes are a pain 😉 anyway), fine I will use tabs
But so far, that’s it… still waiting for a gotcha.
Jun 3, 2024
I have also been moving all my todos (yes, even for work) to Reminders and using Notes more… I’m really enjoying the feeling of less… Less apps, less organizing!