Sunday Tool Scrutiny

A consistent by-product of periods of intense building (software, a book, a team) — really anything where I am heads-down focusing on the craft — is that all the utilities and habits surrounding building said craft get scrutiny. Why? Because small imperfections or inefficiencies stand out when my brain is in build-it mode. Put simply, and as one example: Two keystrokes are vastly less than three over a long period of time. RAYCAST By far, the most investment has gone into Raycast. I was a fervent LaunchBar enthusiast, but you can smell when an application is no longer supported, and LaunchBar has been in that state for years. Raycast is way too much in terms of attempting to be an everything app, but on its journey there, it’s made itself quite configurable in every possible way you can imagine, which is good news for my fingers. The one feature to rule them all, for me, is Hyper Key. The idea is simple: pick a key on your keyboard that is infrequently used — in my case, CAPS LOCK1.…