Hammerspoon

“I can mostly ignore the problems with Karabiner, Hammerspoon and Rectangle.”

“I never had a problem with the windowing system ever since I built my own customization scripts”

“Hammerspoon is amazing, and LLMs are very good at writing configuration for it.”

“Hammerspoon (Mac) is much better. It's basically Lua, with access to all the MacOS automation APIs.”

“I can interactively poke through elements of my WM through Hammerspoon on Mac, and that's just bananas.”

“Hammerspoon [0] is a free option that can handle arbitrary key mappings/macros”

“exposes an nrepl endpoint - I can directly inspect any UI element of any app”

“you can push much further if you don't mind writing more glue code”

“I finally found hammerspoon and scripted an option that consistently works.”

“my "tiling manager" is about 6-7 custom functions I wrote in hammerspoon”

“I have a few hammerspoon customization for me to choose and open the applications I have.”

“A combination of https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and Hammerspoon automation and you can lock yourself out of pretty much everything.”

“I also found it useful to have Hammerspoon flip a virtual switch in, well, Hubitat for me”

“all of that could be accomplished with it instead of Bash”

“I vibecoded a local whisper replacement with claude and hammerspoon”

“there are lots of things about the Lua APIs that I don't like”

“Hammerspoon isn't targeted at programmers because it's abstracting hard things (interfacing with macOS system libraries, etc.) into easier ones”

“I wanted to bind a keyboard shortcut to an option from a menu bar app which doesn’t support keybinding”

“I'll have a hell of a time rewriting everything into Lua”

“I'm now happy with hotkeys in Hammerspoon that reposition and resize the current window”

“once you've got some stuff going, it's easier to hook into Hammerspoon”

“Saved my life, was going crazy click-clicking to nab the right window.”

“only hs had the ability to render custom panes over maximized windows”

“Personally, it's having to figure out Lua is what's kept me away from it”

“I love Hammerspoon!! here's my one handed shortcuts for window control across multiple monitors”

“I did enjoy having an excuse to explore the language in Hammerspoon”

“Thank you for your work on Hammerspoon! I've been using it for years.”

“Thank you so much for doing what Apple's neglected to do for many years!”

“Hammerspoon is basically my only reason to write Lua”

“I pretty much only use it for two (related) things these days”

“Hammerspoon's window management performance is not nearly as good as Aerospace's”

“Insanely easier to use, way better programming language, a kitchen sink of macOS APIs”

“I was able to put together a hammerspoon script that does the job decently enough for my purposes”

“I only use Hammerspoon for this and a couple tiny things, but it's completely worth it for this alone.”

“I use it to map double CMD to swap between the terminal and the browser.”

“dotfile headaches stack up with Hammerspoon and Lua”

“I have a slightly more elaborate setup that allows me to resize from one or another side”

“As I use hammerspoon with hotkeys to resize and move the apps between displays.”

“it comes with a lot of macOS integrations out of the box”

“I finally caved and used hammerspoon to write everything I needed myself”