Witch

I got my first computer around the age of 12. An Apple ][c. Sweet ass green screen, five and a quarter floppy, hex code hacks ripped from the latest copy of Computist never far away.

Yes, I was once a social retard. Yes, I have actually had sex since. Yes, sometimes even with other people.

Around 16 I found a new kind of green, and a few thousand days of gravity bongs and crazy trains obscured my interest in computers. Until around 1997 when I got sick of managing nightclubs and decides that whole dot.com thing actually had some legs. Taught myself enough Web 1.5 lingo to Kei-shuffle my way into a gig with an e-commerce blah blah blah bloo and ended up using Windows for years and years…and years.

Then about 2 years ago, well into my self-education towards the code cowboy you read before you, I rediscovered the wonder of Apple through the beauty of OS X. Better integration of applications. Extra features in the Adobe suite. Scriptable everything. Standards based UI design. And, sweet sweetness, it ran on BSD. 20 years past and I had come full geeky circle home. I still keep a couple of Windows boxes around for gaming and running evil Internet experiments against The Man, but I wholly endorse Mac OS X as the best damn design, development and all purpose entertainment environment ever realized.

Except for one thing.

There’s no standard keyboard shortcut to maximize a window.

What Cupertino fuck ducked the smack with the obvious hammer and forget to include this as a cross-app standard feature? The world may never know.

Anyway, probably an oldie but goodie to some, but I’ve recently started using Many Trick’s Witch, a sweet OS X app carousel replacement that allows maximization of minmizooted + a couple more windows management ninja tricks. It’s done much to abate my, though thinly veiled, ever present computer generated angst. Check it.