my notes on using Alfred

Give every website its own address on your domain, receive it all in 1 mailbox, and reply from the alias the sender used. Setup for the provider, DNS and each mail client.

A native menu bar app I built with Claude Code to replace Trickster. 1 hotkey copies the path of the file I just saved and opens my recent files.

keeping track of apps I currently use, have used and on my radar

current snapshot

a great deal for Mac power users

joining the community of home office enthusiasts.

From the Claude app to terminal windows, to herdr, to my own macOS command centre for about 50 Claude Code sessions. Every feature, screenshots and a performance review.

netcup, the Karlsruhe hosting company behind some of the cheapest KVM servers in Europe: products, prices, locations and trade-offs.

A native macOS music player I had my AI agent build to replace Audirvana: bit-perfect local playback, ReplayGain on every track, my Sonos speakers as 1 group, Apple Music for discovery, and 5x less memory.

Autonomous' $299 square touchscreen shows every Claude Code, Codex or Cursor session on every machine, and takes the next task by voice. It runs on the free, open-source Harness app.

Skill graphs link agent skills with typed edges (depends on, specialises, conflicts with) so retrieval brings the prerequisites too. What the 2026 research shows, and where it doesn't help.

The original 295 USD Blackmagic switcher I ran from 2020 to October 2026, what it did, what it never got, and why software on my Mac replaced it.

A native Mac recorder with OBS-style scenes: 1 Stream Deck key sets up the screen, the camera and the mic, and records. It replaces OBS, which I used for more than 10 years, and my agents can drive every part of it. Built with Claude Code.

Theo Browne's free, MIT-licensed GUI for the coding agents already on your machine: threads, branches, diffs and PRs in 1 place, on desktop, web and phone.

A native text editor that replaces TextMate as my clipboard scratchpad. Against TextMate, CotEditor, Sublime Text and TextEdit, it wins 12 of 16 speed and memory measures.

Paper Instruments' model for finance, legal and consulting work: GLM-5.3 Flash plus reinforcement learning on rubric-graded tasks, at $0.13 a task. Works in Claude Code.

A native Mac app that keys my green wall in real time, follows the daylight all day, keeps me solid even with green on my glasses, and shows up in any call app as a camera called Webcamee. It replaces the ATEM Mini on my desk. Built with Claude Code.

Caps Lock to talk, a live transcript while I speak, clean text pasted where the cursor is. Everything runs on my Mac Studio. Built with Claude Code in 22 prompts.

A native, keyboard-first, dual-pane file manager I built with Claude Code to replace Path Finder. Now open source on GitHub, under the MIT licence.

Free, open-source macOS automation scripted in Lua. The glue behind my keyboard-first Mac: dictation, copy and paste keys, audio, screens and window rules.

A tiling window manager I built in 1 day with Claude Code, in Lua inside Hammerspoon. It replaces Amethyst and tiles a new window in 0.1 s instead of 9 s.

A tiling window manager for macOS. I used it for 2 years and retired it on 13th October 2026 for Tilee, my own tiler in Hammerspoon.

Open-source Chromium browsers from a YC startup: BrowserOS neo, a second browser your Claude Code or Codex agents drive with your real logins, and BrowserOS, an AI browser for humans.

Mole's free GPL CLI (mo) cleans caches, uninstalls apps with their leftovers, analyses the disk and shows live system status. It replaced CleanMyMac for me on day 1.