Top all-time · #19193
Kent Sutherland
Personal blog · ksuther.comprogramming
Kent Sutherland's personal blog at ksuther.com covers programming. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Automating iOS App Store screenshots”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked page appears in an Ask HN thread on essential Mac apps, but the comments do not discuss its writing. They only name other Mac apps such as MegaZoomer, SteerMouse, SizeUp and Miro.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mac and iOS development and possibly other miscellaneous things
Most-linked posts?
- Automating iOS App Store screenshots2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-24
What Hacker News says?
I'm going to be a fuddy-duddy and say: most of these apps are not essential for the Mac. Lots of them are nice, but you can skip them entirely when you're just getting started. Here are the ones I consider absolute essentials for my daily work: MegaZoomer - http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html - lets you full-screen zoom any application. That mixed with TextEdit gives you the best word processor you'll ever need.…
Comment linking /chax/
on “Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?”Submitted Automating iOS App Store screenshots as a story · 2 points
HN discussion1.) SteerMouse - tweak the mouse acceleration curve. If you're coming from a PC and you feel like your mouse doesn't move right, this will help. 2.) SizeUp - size and and position windows with hotkeys. For example, quickly set two windows to use exactly one-half of the screen each. 3.) Expandrive - mount S3 buckets, ftp sites, sftp sites as network drives. (Works great with textmate) 4.) Miro - excellent video playe…
Comment linking /warp/
on “Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?”Submitted Automating iOS App Store screenshots as a story · 2 points
HN discussion