First off, I have never liked using Google Chrome for development. The only reason I DEV in it is because it’s a popular browser. That’s it…

Recently I have had a bit of a paradigm shift in how I manage windows and tabs on my Mac. I use spaces now. I am preferring windows over tabs (but not spaces over tabs, that’s evil, and wrong)…

All this to say that one little annoyance, related to this, has me switching back to Firefox DE (Developer Edition) for my development browser.

You remember when I said I preferred windows over tabs? Well, let’s say I have a Chrome window on Space A doing Work X… and I have one on Space B doing Work Y…and I need to open a link on Space C to do Work Z… Well, if I click that link I get a new tab on random Space X, Y, or Z (probably the last window I used).

That’s not what I want. I’ve tried every hack to make sure a new link opens a new window on Space C (my current space) in Chrome, but, like Google does, there just isn’t a reasonable way.

To my surprise, Firefox DE (and Firefox itself) on MacOS follows the behavior I have setup on Mac.

This setting should dictate everything. Most apps follow the rules here, not Google Chrome. But, like I said, FFDE seems to like to follow the rules I set on my own computer.

So what I want is for external links to just go to my clipboard! Then I can decide what to do with the URL. But, with Choosy and Shareful I can do so much more. I can copy the URL to my clipboard (just like I wanted) and I can also send that URL to other apps like Messages, Mail, Notes, and more!

Checkout the video on this post on how I did it. You will need to install Choosy and Shareful to accomplish it.

Note, I updated my Rule in Choosy to this (which is a bit different than the video):

Ever since macOS added dark mode I have been a user. Using dark mode in the OS, my text editor (Sublime), Github, etc.

But today I tinkered around with what using light mode might look like for me:

As you can see I would have to compromise a little with Sublime and iTerm, I just can’t find a good enough color scheme that is all-white or off-white, so I went with a theme I’ve used in the past and enjoyed.

I’ve always felt a bit of nostalgia using light themes, so I often wonder if I’d ever use one. But for now back to dark mode…

1. Set your avatar to the cat one
2. Goto /Users/.../Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Avatars
3. Replace avatarorigamicat.png with the custom avatar you want

Even though it shows as the cat icon:

…and in tools like Choosy:

If, like me, you find yourself trying to use shellcheck to lint .zsh files with #!/bin/zsh but it keeps telling you:

shellcheck: error
error 
ShellCheck only supports sh/bash/dash/ksh scripts. 
Sorry! [SC1071]

What I was able to do is pass the --shell=bash argument to shellcheck and then it would lint my files.

In my case this was configured in my SublimeLinter config, like so:

{
    "linters": {
        "shellcheck": {
            "args": [
                "--shell=bash"
            ]
        },
    }
}

…just in case you are using Sublime Text!