​​Clipboard manager for #macos which does one job - keep your copy history at hand. Lightweight. Open source and free. No fluff. https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy

And as an #apple software developer, I live through the Summer beta periods. On my secondary machine. And, in recent years, within virtual machines that allow me to do more intricate testing. I’ve seen easy-going mostly spit and polish releases as well more substantial user-facing and under-the-hood ones.

But Catalina has been different in two particularly gruesome ways that get even worse when combined.

The first, is purely from a stability and functional standpoint. The early betas of Catalina were really, really broken. But that’s OK! That’s what betas are for. And while I can only speak for myself, I think most developers are more than happy to offer input to Apple and report bugs. So I’m totally fine using a wonky OS for a few months on a spare machine while I test my own software in addition to Apple’s.

But here’s the bad part ...

#macos

​​Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar!

The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it's completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them.

https://getbitbar.com/

#swift #macos

​​Awesome tool to compliment recent BitBar utility: Hidden Bar lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

#macos #swift

​​Secretive is an app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave. It is inspired by the sekey project, but rewritten in Swift with no external dependencies and with a handy native management app.

- Safer Storage: The most common setup for SSH keys is just keeping them on disk, guarded by proper permissions. This is fine in most cases, but it's not super hard for malicious users or malware to copy your private key. If you store your keys in the Secure Enclave, it's impossible to export them, by design.

- Access Control: If your Mac has a Secure Enclave, it also has support for strong access controls like Touch ID, or authentication with Apple Watch. You can configure your key so that they require Touch ID (or Watch) authentication before they're accessed.

- Notifications: Secretive also notifies you whenever your keys are acceessed, so you're never caught off guard.

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

#swift #macos

​​Homebrew, but with #docker images.

Whalebrew creates aliases for Docker images so you can run them as if they were native commands. It's like Homebrew, but with Docker images.

Docker works well for packaging up development environments, but there are lots of tools that aren't tied to a particular project: awscli for managing your AWS account, ffmpeg for converting video, wget for downloading files, and so on. Whalebrew makes those things work with Docker, too.

https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew

#macos #devops