Ikroop Singh Kalsi

software (@letsblinkit) / art / general nonsense

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

Say hello to Puu! #characterdesign

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@kartikwhatever amazing

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@Apple why can’t this be a simple fucking toggle in the settings

[Valerian Saliou @valeriansaliou]

I'm using macOS for more than 14 years now, in a single laptop screen setup with lots of windows open, and I'm using macOS spaces everyday to organize my windows. Switching between spaces is easy: I hit CTRL+arrow left/right, it takes no time. What takes time however, is this macOS-native transition animation that takes a bit less than 1 second, for every single space switch.

I've checked everywhere in macOS settings, asked friends with the same problem, and there's just no setting to disable this effect (even with Reduced Motion ON in Accessibility settings).

This UX choice from Apple alone costs me days of my time every year, as I'm working non-stop on my SaaS business for 10h a day 5-6 days a week (Crisp for those who know about it!).

I calculated that with my daily use of macOS spaces, in 6 months I'd perform 100,000 switches, which costs me the same in seconds waiting for the transition to complete. This represents almost 28 hours waiting. In 1 year, I'd have lost 2.4 days just... waiting!

The Hack

Fortunately, some other open-source projects discovered a hack not so long ago, which allows disabling the transition when switching spaces: it involves sending to the system a "fake" trackpad left/right swipe gesture that's faster than what's expected (faster than what a human can input via the Macbook's trackpad). Above some threshold, macOS just perform the space switch with absolutely no transition.

A friend of mine, @yaeeelglx, made a quick prototype in Objective-C, and it magically worked!

The Solution

So, I asked my friend if we could make it a proper macOS app together, in a beautiful minimalist package, and he said yes!

So, we launched Space Rabbit, a tiny 2MB fully native macOS app, that allows you to optimize macOS spaces for productivity! Space Rabbit is a full rewrite of the initial prototype in modern Swift, with a tray menu bar to configure the app, and a settings window, in a macOS app packaging.

Space Rabbit can be downloaded right here: https://t.co/yqaVqu6Zgm

We just released V2 of the app last week, fixing a ton of little bugs, especially for dual screen setups. It's actively maintained to this day as it's my daily driver.

The app is open-source: https://t.co/REKNNevWDi and will always be free, as it's helping improve our productivity in our daily Web Dev tasks for our main businesses. We'll be happy to implement more features from user requests, if you find this app useful and use it daily!

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@DavidOndrej1 couldn’t get a hang the tmux style keyboard shortcuts from herdr :// had to switch to cmux

[Bammy @ayobamiamisu]

COVID really had me saying “ohh shit my mask” in 2020 like i’m Batman or something

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@github hell yeah

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

stuck in a retarded traffic

to be blasted by memories from flash game era was nice. iconic

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Someone asked me for the Armor Games intro I made back in 2008 and it made me curious if @ArmorGames still uses this... YES THEY DO!

Anyway here it is in 4K (or whatever socials compress it to)

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@hadikhantech IN

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

🙏🏼

[julia @juumelo_]

one day you will find a hoe who is actually enchanted by your mild autism

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@championswimmer cursor try karoo, they have cracked the speed to quality balance

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

notifications on iphone suck; pokemaxxing with zero value most of the time
i miss android.

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@funirudh HAHAH

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

What a time we are living in!

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@SamSokolin @NickADobos can’t get past this :(

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@ericzakariasson need multitask in CLI pls, my company has banned cursor due to vulnerabilities in OpenVSX registry ;-;

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

so thankful to the people created passkeys. they are the best and everyone should adopt them at consumer logins.

the apple ecosystem with iCloud’s keychain shines particularly bright in this domain

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/0DyFIXJueI

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

that michael jackson reference in Maniac’s last ep put a smile on my face

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@KuugeNoSaku hell yeah

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@ydmdv this is SO COOL

[Ikroop Singh Kalsi @krispykalsi]

@championswimmer its their harness, you gotta use it know it. debug mode is insane. and asking something about a big codebase w comp 2 is super quick
and also goated autocomplete - sometimes you just gotta write the code yourself in enterprise codebases, it just works