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Notes from the launcher
Product updates, deep dives into keyboard-first workflows, and the occasional rant about Spotlight. Written by the CmdSpace team.
Why Spotlight is hostile to developers (and what to replace it with)
Spotlight was designed to find your photos, your Mail messages, and the occasional Numbers spreadsheet. It was not designed to coexist with a developer's home directory. After ten years of yearly macOS updates, that design mismatch has har…
A keyboard-only macOS terminal launcher workflow
If you spend your day in iTerm, Ghostty, or Terminal.app, the ergonomic gap between "I need a terminal" and "I am typing into one" matters more than for any other app. Three seconds of friction per terminal-open, ten times a day, is 30 sec…
A keyboard-only macOS dev setup that survives every Tahoe update
Every macOS update is a small earthquake for developer machines. Spotlight forgets your exclusions. Some shortcut you relied on stops working. A signed launcher you trusted needs a fresh permission grant. The setup you spent a weekend tuni…
The lsof port cheatsheet for macOS developers
lsof is the standard tool for answering "what is using this port" on macOS. It is also one of the most cryptic command-line tools you will use this week. The man page is 300 lines of options, most of which you will never touch. This post i…