Space Command is in playtest. It’s the Mac app that grew out of warped-command, my Obsidian plugin, but it works across all my folders instead of one vault. It reads the plans, TODOs, ideas, and posts I keep in plain text and shows me the one thing to do next. The alpha is running on my own repos, vaults, and Hugo sites now, and I’m finding the rough edges. There’s no public download yet, and it needs macOS 26. ...
The first teaser for Space Command, the Mac sidebar I’m building for the plans and TODOs I already keep in plain text. ...
Your projects already live in plain text. Space Command reads them and shows you the one thing to do next. Space Command is a native macOS sidebar app. It sits at the edge of your screen, a click from the menu bar, and works on your files where they are: Git repos, notes vaults, and Hugo blogs. Nothing to import, no second copy to keep in sync, and nothing leaves your Mac. ...
After thirty-something years of working in terminals, I’ve developed a pretty strong bias toward doing things from the command line. It can be faster for me to navigate around using scripts and shortcuts than clicking through GUI hierarchies. The muscle memory is there, the automation possibilities are endless, and frankly, it just feels more direct. The problem is that GUI applications don’t always want to cooperate with this workflow. You end up breaking your flow to hunt through Spotlight, dig around in Finder, or, worst of all, try to remember the actual executable path buried somewhere deep in an .app bundle. It’s jarring when you’re in the zone. ...
I set up a new dev laptop for myself over the Christmas holidays. I took the opportunity to burn down my old environment and to survey the 2021 tool landscape, which included testing out various terminals and setups, editors, and fonts. This year I discovered Fira Code, a tidy little monospace font that supports ligatures. Ligatures are two or more letters (or graphemes) that can be combined to make a single glyph. The result of combining letters into these ligatures can make complex syntax a bit easier to read, especially if you are familiar with the notations the concepts are based on. ...