Casey Liss

But like I said, the Quicksilver developer came back and he fixed some bug in something. And the Quicksilver wasn't crashing anymore. And by the way, Quicksilver was only crashing on my computer, but not on my wife's computer. But she has a different catalog set than I do. But for a while, it was freezing on her computer. And she was complaining about Quicksilver.

And I'm like, I'm going to have to take her off Quicksilver. Maybe I'll put her onto Spotlight. And just it's made me think about like how... such a small part of my computing life can throw everything else into chaos, right? It's kind of like if, like, the right button on your mouse only works sometimes. It's not a big deal, but it's like... Oh, that's a big deal.

And I'm like, I'm going to have to take her off Quicksilver. Maybe I'll put her onto Spotlight. And just it's made me think about like how... such a small part of my computing life can throw everything else into chaos, right? It's kind of like if, like, the right button on your mouse only works sometimes. It's not a big deal, but it's like... Oh, that's a big deal.

It doesn't realize how often you're doing that. Like, there's a quick workaround. Just click it again or something, right? And then, you know, the workaround to Quicksilver, like, launch it with Spotlight or whatever, but it's just been a mess. Anyway, right now, I'm running Quicksilver again, and it's no longer crashing and no longer freezing. It's scanning my catalog, so fingers crossed, but...

It doesn't realize how often you're doing that. Like, there's a quick workaround. Just click it again or something, right? And then, you know, the workaround to Quicksilver, like, launch it with Spotlight or whatever, but it's just been a mess. Anyway, right now, I'm running Quicksilver again, and it's no longer crashing and no longer freezing. It's scanning my catalog, so fingers crossed, but...

I'm not going to write myself a Quicksilver replacement, and like I said, I can't even get Quicksilver to build due to things that are above my pay grade in Xcode, causing it just not to build. Or maybe it will build, but it won't let me attach a debugger, because I want it to catch where the crash was or whatever, and LDB gives me some error and I want to attach to it. But anyway, that's all.

I'm not going to write myself a Quicksilver replacement, and like I said, I can't even get Quicksilver to build due to things that are above my pay grade in Xcode, causing it just not to build. Or maybe it will build, but it won't let me attach a debugger, because I want it to catch where the crash was or whatever, and LDB gives me some error and I want to attach to it. But anyway, that's all.

I just wanted to complain about Quicksilver, which has been such a fixture in my computing life, and I'm sure everyone's going to send me all their alternatives. Like I said, I probably already own all of them. And some of them are really good. And some of them are really cool. And some of them, you know, tons of them do things that Quicksilver couldn't even dream of.

I just wanted to complain about Quicksilver, which has been such a fixture in my computing life, and I'm sure everyone's going to send me all their alternatives. Like I said, I probably already own all of them. And some of them are really good. And some of them are really cool. And some of them, you know, tons of them do things that Quicksilver couldn't even dream of.

But I'm just so used to Quicksilver. I just wish it would, like, continue to work the way it used to work. And I would be happy with it. I don't need any new features. I don't need anything. I just need it to stay the same as it is forever. But unfortunately, that's not the way computers work.

But I'm just so used to Quicksilver. I just wish it would, like, continue to work the way it used to work. And I would be happy with it. I don't need any new features. I don't need anything. I just need it to stay the same as it is forever. But unfortunately, that's not the way computers work.

It's like changing your shell, which is another thing that I've been resisting doing since 1993 because I still use an ancient shell, and I've complained about this a couple times online. If you do anything with Unix stuff, they're like, oh, and sure, just copy and paste this, and it will do what you want. And it's always for Bash, or these days you'll see it's for Bash or Phish.

It's like changing your shell, which is another thing that I've been resisting doing since 1993 because I still use an ancient shell, and I've complained about this a couple times online. If you do anything with Unix stuff, they're like, oh, and sure, just copy and paste this, and it will do what you want. And it's always for Bash, or these days you'll see it's for Bash or Phish.

There's just so much open-source software that just assumes, well, of course everybody uses Bash or Phish or ZSH. Those are the only shells, right? Like, no, that's not my shell. And all shells are not the same. And I can't copy and paste that because it won't work in my shell. So yeah, changing launchers like changing shells in that, oh, I could change shells real easily.

There's just so much open-source software that just assumes, well, of course everybody uses Bash or Phish or ZSH. Those are the only shells, right? Like, no, that's not my shell. And all shells are not the same. And I can't copy and paste that because it won't work in my shell. So yeah, changing launchers like changing shells in that, oh, I could change shells real easily.

But now I got to take everything that I built up since 1993 in my shell, which is TCSH, which is ancient and nobody should use it. Do not use the shell. But anyway, I would have to take all that stuff and reproduce it in my new shell. And it's exactly the same with Quicksilver, although it's a smaller number of things. So you want to use Alfred. Can I...

But now I got to take everything that I built up since 1993 in my shell, which is TCSH, which is ancient and nobody should use it. Do not use the shell. But anyway, I would have to take all that stuff and reproduce it in my new shell. And it's exactly the same with Quicksilver, although it's a smaller number of things. So you want to use Alfred. Can I...

essentially port all the things that I was doing in Quicksilver and have them be the same keyboard shortcut so it just looks different but works the same and the answer is yes I could do that and did do that after some pain but in the end it didn't quite look the same and it's like well what do you care it looks slightly different it's fine like who cares I'm like I just kind of like the way Quicksilver works so yeah Alfred is my fallback I have Alfred's app to do pretty much everything Quicksilver not everything everything that I care about that Quicksilver does there's some other stuff like I think Quicksilver does large text a little bit differently and

essentially port all the things that I was doing in Quicksilver and have them be the same keyboard shortcut so it just looks different but works the same and the answer is yes I could do that and did do that after some pain but in the end it didn't quite look the same and it's like well what do you care it looks slightly different it's fine like who cares I'm like I just kind of like the way Quicksilver works so yeah Alfred is my fallback I have Alfred's app to do pretty much everything Quicksilver not everything everything that I care about that Quicksilver does there's some other stuff like I think Quicksilver does large text a little bit differently and

some other slight differences in searching and tabbing and typing. Like there's still differences, but I can get by with Alfred. That is my choice, my personal choice for replacement. But the time spent sort of porting your world from one thing to another very much reminded me of what it will be like someday when I'm forced to port my world from TCSH to another shell.