content: 2026-07-13 capture run — 28 finds across 12 productive sources

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+name: "A Better Route Planner"
+subtitle: "Routes off your EV's actual battery state, not a guess"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://abetterrouteplanner.com/"
+linkText: "abetterrouteplanner.com"
+source: "TidBITS"
+topics: [travel-and-places, web-tools]
+tags: [ev, road-trip, obd2, route-planning]
+description: "An EV road-trip planner that, paired with a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle, reads your car's live battery telemetry and recomputes charging stops as you drive."
+---
+
+Pair A Better Route Planner (ABRP) with a cheap Bluetooth Low Energy OBD-II dongle and it reads your car's live state of charge and real consumption straight off the vehicle, then recalculates charging stops on the fly if you're using more energy than expected. That's the difference from a generic range estimate: the route adapts to how your specific car, cargo, and driving style are actually performing that day, not a manufacturer's spec-sheet number.
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+---
+name: "Everywhere Mini Pocket"
+subtitle: "A hand-sewn 0.25L zip pocket from a Hood River workshop"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://alpineseaco.com/products/everywhere-mini-pocket"
+linkText: "alpineseaco.com"
+source: "Carryology"
+topics: [carry-and-wear]
+tags: [edc, small-batch, carabiner, collab, giftable]
+description: "A hand-sewn 0.25L zip organizer with an aluminum carabiner, made in small batches in Hood River, Oregon."
+---
+
+A 0.25L zip organizer with an aluminum carabiner, hand-sewn in small batches in a Hood River, Oregon workshop by a husband-and-wife duo (ex-Rip Curl/Vans/Dakine). Part of a Carryology collaboration, it sits in the gap between a wallet and a sling — the load you'd otherwise just hold in one hand.
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+---
+name: "Bananarr"
+subtitle: "Fingerprints a site's tech stack without phoning home"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://bananarr.com/"
+linkText: "bananarr.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [web-tools]
+tags: [chrome-extension, dev-tools, privacy]
+description: "A Chrome extension that detects any site's framework, analytics, and CDN entirely client-side, with no browsing history sent to a server."
+---
+
+Bananarr inspects the page you're already on and reports its framework, analytics tags, and CDN, the same job Wappalyzer and BuiltWith do — except the detection runs entirely in the extension, client-side, rather than shipping the URLs you visit off to a server to be matched against a database. Nothing about your browsing history leaves the tab.
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+---
+name: "bHive Filer"
+subtitle: "Semantic search across the files you already have"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://bhive.software"
+linkText: "bhive.software"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
+tags: [file-search, semantic-search, offline, privacy]
+description: "A free, fully offline Mac file manager that indexes documents on-device and searches by what they're about, not just their filenames."
+---
+
+bHive Filer reads and indexes documents directly on your Mac, so a search like "summarizes the quarter" surfaces the right PDF even if its filename is "Q3 Report Draft 2.pdf" — no exact keyword match needed. Files stay exactly where they are; there's no import step into a proprietary library, no account, and no upload, and the app is free and notarized by Apple.
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+---
+name: "Displace"
+subtitle: "Fixes macOS's long-standing multi-monitor bugs"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://displaceapp.com"
+linkText: "displaceapp.com"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [multi-monitor, utility, free]
+description: "A Mac utility targeting specific multi-monitor bugs — the Dock jumping to the wrong display, hot corners breaking, the cursor getting stranded on a powered-off display."
+---
+
+Displace goes after a specific list of long-standing macOS multi-monitor annoyances rather than a general "monitor manager" pitch: the Dock jumping to whichever screen your mouse last touched, hot corners that stop firing once multiple displays are in play, and the cursor getting stranded on a display that's been powered off. It lets you pin the Dock to one display and define how the cursor crosses between screens, and it ships free with a $10 Pro tier for the deeper controls.
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+---
+name: "DockFlow"
+subtitle: "Save multiple Dock layouts and switch between them by context"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://dockflowapp.io"
+linkText: "dockflowapp.io"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
+tags: [dock, workflow, utility]
+description: "A Mac app that saves multiple complete Dock layouts — a work Dock, a focus Dock, a design Dock — and switches between them with a hotkey instead of hand-rearranging icons."
+---
+
+DockFlow lets you build several complete Dock presets — apps, folders, files, web links — and jump between them with a hotkey, an Apple Shortcut, or automatically when a macOS Focus mode activates, instead of dragging icons around every time your context changes. Unlike Dock-replacement utilities that draw their own dock over the system one, it works with the native macOS Dock, so it needs no special permissions and doesn't risk breaking on a macOS update. A separate "Lock Dock" feature anchors the Dock to a chosen display so it stops jumping when your mouse crosses to another monitor.
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+---
+name: "Etenwolf Air 3"
+subtitle: "A rechargeable pump that inflates, deflates, and lights the campsite"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://etenwolf.com/products/air-3-air-pump-for-inflatables"
+linkText: "etenwolf.com"
+source: "The Awesomer"
+topics: [gadgets-and-toys, outdoors-and-nature]
+tags: [camping, rechargeable, inflator, giftable]
+description: "A rechargeable inflator that also deflates vacuum storage bags and doubles as a 600-lumen camping light."
+---
+
+A rechargeable air pump that both inflates and deflates — so it also collapses vacuum storage bags, not just pool toys and mattresses — with a 600-lumen lantern mode built into the same body. Its 2,600mAh battery recharges fully via USB-C in about an hour and, running at 96 gallons/minute, inflates an air mattress in roughly sixty seconds.
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+---
+name: "The First Herculaneum Scroll, Read"
+subtitle: "A 2,000-year-old scroll read in full without ever being opened"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll"
+linkText: "scrollprize.org"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics: [history-and-archives, ai]
+tags: [archive, ancient-history, machine-learning, papyrology]
+description: "The Vesuvius Challenge has virtually unwrapped and read an entire Herculaneum scroll, PHerc. 1667, for the first time in two thousand years."
+---
+
+PHerc. 1667 — a carbonized papyrus scroll sealed by Vesuvius in 79 AD and too fragile to physically unroll — has been read end to end for the first time, virtually unwrapped with X-ray CT scanning and machine learning by the Vesuvius Challenge. The page itself is the primary source: a scrollable, zoomable image of the actual unwrapped writing surface, with translated excerpts from the Stoic ethics treatise (it names Aristocreon, nephew of the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus) that nobody has read in two thousand years.
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+---
+name: "The HTML Review, Issue 05"
+subtitle: "A free annual journal of literature that can only exist on the web"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://thehtml.review/05/"
+linkText: "thehtml.review"
+source: "Things Magazine"
+topics: [web-tools, design-and-art, writing-and-notes]
+tags: [literary-journal, css-art, interactive-fiction]
+description: "A free annual journal of web-native literature — poems, essays, and interactive pieces that only work as living web pages."
+---
+
+The HTML Review is a free annual journal of writing built to exist on the web rather than be printed from it. Issue 05 (Spring 2026) runs sixteen pieces deep, including "Intersymmetric: Connect," a multiplayer music system by James Bradbury, Rian Treanor, and Mark Fell that turns visitors' inputs into a shared audio survey, and "carecore," a piece of generative CSS botany by Raphaël Bastide dedicated to caregivers. There's also a CSS webtoon, a folktale, and poems that lean on the page itself as part of the text — the kind of work that would lose something if you tried to put it on paper.
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+---
+name: "Ariana Venti"
+subtitle: "A dad joke about coffee sizes"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [pun, coffee, dad-joke]
+description: "A pun about who's bigger than Ariana Grande, from r/dadjokes."
+---
+
+Who is bigger than Ariana Grande? Ariana Venti.
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+---
+name: "Tutus"
+subtitle: "A dad joke about ballerinas and math"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [pun, math, dad-joke]
+description: "A pun about why ballerinas love the number four, from r/dadjokes."
+---
+
+Why do ballerinas love the number four? Tutus.
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+---
+name: "Fed-Up"
+subtitle: "A dad joke about shipping company mergers"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [pun, dad-joke, business]
+description: "A pun about a fictional FedEx-UPS merger, from icanhazdadjoke."
+---
+
+Did you hear FedEx and UPS are merging? They're going to go by the name Fed-Up from now on.
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+---
+name: "Juicy"
+subtitle: "Custom battery alerts at any percentage, not just Apple's low-battery warning"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://getjuicy.app"
+linkText: "getjuicy.app"
+source: "Product Hunt"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [menu-bar, battery, utility]
+description: "A menu-bar Mac battery app that lets you set custom charge-level alerts at any percentage, alongside battery health and temperature tracking."
+---
+
+Juicy sits in the Menu Bar and lets you set alerts at whatever percentage you actually care about — "tell me at 80% so I can unplug" — instead of only Apple's fixed low-battery warning. Alongside that it surfaces battery health, cycle count, temperature, and live power draw (wattage, voltage, current) in one panel, the kind of detail otherwise buried across several System Settings screens.
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+---
+name: "lidwatch"
+subtitle: "Sleeps a docked MacBook when you close the lid"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://github.com/KristijanKocev/lidwatch"
+linkText: "GitHub"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [macos-apps, cli-and-automation]
+tags: [open-source, background-service, utility]
+description: "A lightweight background service that overrides macOS's default clamshell behavior so a MacBook with an external display actually sleeps when the lid closes."
+---
+
+macOS deliberately stays awake in clamshell mode whenever an external display is connected and power is plugged in — lidwatch overrides exactly that one behavior, sending the Mac to sleep when the lid closes regardless. It runs as a `brew services` background daemon rather than a menu-bar app, by design: the author wanted something you enable once and forget, not another icon competing for space. It reacts to native macOS lid-state, power, and display-connection events directly instead of polling every few seconds, which is what caused a competing tool to occasionally sleep the Mac with the lid still open.
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+---
+name: "Maxpedition Tactical Can Case"
+subtitle: "A round ballistic-nylon pouch sized for a food can"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.maxpedition.com/products/tactical-can-case"
+linkText: "maxpedition.com"
+source: "The Awesomer"
+amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J27ULPQ"
+topics: [carry-and-wear]
+tags: [edc, tactical, molle, ballistic-nylon, giftable]
+description: "A 3.5-inch round ballistic-nylon hard case built to hold a food can, with PALS webbing so it mounts to the outside of a pack."
+---
+
+A 3.5" round ballistic-nylon hard case sized for a food can, with PALS webbing so it mounts to the outside of a pack. In practice the EDC crowd uses it for the thing its shape actually solves: a rigid, round, crush-proof home for tools, spare parts, or a tin — a niche flat pouches can't fill.
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+---
+name: "MCP2000"
+subtitle: "Type a prompt, get a 16-pad drum bank to sequence and chop"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.mcp2000.com/"
+linkText: "mcp2000.com"
+source: "Things Magazine"
+topics: [music-and-sound, ai, web-tools]
+tags: [generative, browser-toy, sampler]
+description: "A browser-based sampler and step sequencer that generates 16-pad drum banks and loops from a text prompt, styled after classic hardware samplers."
+---
+
+MCP2000 is a sampler and step sequencer, styled after classic hardware like the MPC2000, that runs entirely in the browser. Type a prompt — "Bollywood strings meets trap hi-hats," "utopian, otherworldly bird songs" — and it generates a full 16-pad drum bank or a loop to chop up, which you then arrange on the step sequencer and shape with a waveform editor and effects like beat-synced delay and bit-crushing. What you control is the prompt and the arrangement; the sounds themselves come out of the generator each time.
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+---
+name: "MinuteFile"
+subtitle: "Transcribes local meeting recordings without a bot or an upload"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://motionobj.com/minutefile/"
+linkText: "motionobj.com"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps, ai]
+tags: [transcription, privacy, on-device-ai, utility]
+description: "A Mac app that points at a folder of local meeting recordings and transcribes them into searchable text entirely on-device, with no bot joining the call and nothing uploaded."
+---
+
+MinuteFile watches a folder of local recordings — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, whatever your setup already saves — and transcribes them into searchable, speaker-labeled text entirely on-device. The contrast with Otter, Fireflies, or Granola is the whole pitch: no bot has to join the call, no audio leaves the Mac, there's no account, and no subscription — just a folder MinuteFile already knows to check.
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+---
+name: "Misgellar"
+subtitle: "Gives digitized film scans the EXIF they never had"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/misgellar-film-photos-notes/id6772962857"
+linkText: "App Store"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [ios-apps, design-and-art]
+tags: [film-photography, metadata, ios, free]
+description: "A free iOS app that logs camera, lens, and film-stock settings per frame while you shoot, then matches and writes that metadata into your scanned negatives."
+---
+
+Misgellar logs aperture, shutter speed, film stock, and location per frame as you shoot a roll, then — once the lab hands back scans with no EXIF at all — matches each frame to its recorded shot and writes that metadata back into the image file. It's solving a problem digital-first photo apps never have to think about, since a digital camera embeds that data automatically; film scans arrive blank. Free, with support for color, black-and-white, and redscale rolls.
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+---
+name: "Pitch Trail"
+subtitle: "Ear training for kids disguised as a color game"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://pitchtrail.app/"
+linkText: "pitchtrail.app"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [music-and-sound, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [ear-training, kids, free, music-education]
+description: "A free web-based ear-training game for kids that maps each color to a chord, training pitch recognition over repeated play."
+---
+
+Pitch Trail replaces the music-theory worksheet with a grid of colored tiles: tap one, hear its chord, and repetition trains pitch recognition without a single staff notation in sight. It's free, supports separate profiles per child, and syncs progress across devices, so the drilling is actually a game a kid returns to instead of homework.
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+---
+name: "Pixel Skylines"
+subtitle: "The video-game backgrounds you scrolled past and never looked at"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://pixelskylines.tumblr.com/"
+linkText: "pixelskylines.tumblr.com"
+source: "Things Magazine"
+topics: [design-and-art, gadgets-and-toys]
+tags: [pixel-art, video-games, archive]
+description: "A running Tumblr archive of pixel-art city backgrounds lifted from old video games."
+---
+
+Pixel Skylines is a running collection of urban background art pulled from old video games — the parallax cityscapes and coastlines that scrolled behind the action while you were busy paying attention to something else. Isolated and stilled, they turn out to be small, deliberate pieces of landscape painting: a Rio-style skyline with its mountain and statue rendered in a few hundred careful pixels is a good example of what's in the archive. Worth a scroll if you like seeing background art get promoted to foreground.
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+---
+name: "The 'five-minute conversation' quote isn't Churchill's"
+subtitle: "Quote Investigator finds no trace of it in his writings"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/10/democracy-five/"
+linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com"
+source: "Quote Investigator"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [misattribution, churchill, research]
+description: "Quote Investigator traces the famous Churchill line about democracy and the average voter to an unsourced 1992 Usenet post, not to Churchill."
+---
+
+"The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" is near-universally credited to Winston Churchill. Quote Investigator finds no trace of it anywhere in his writings or recorded speeches: the earliest known appearance is a 1992 Usenet post that already attributed a version of the line to Churchill, with no source given — 27 years after his death. Who actually wrote it remains unknown.
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+---
+name: "Wole Soyinka on silence"
+subtitle: "A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today, on his birthday"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/arete.html"
+linkText: "wordsmith.org"
+source: "A.Word.A.Day"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [quote, birthday, nobel-laureate]
+description: "A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today, marking playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's birthday."
+---
+
+"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." — Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, born 13 July 1934. It ran as A.Word.A.Day's "Thought for Today" on his birthday, tucked at the bottom of the day's word entry.
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+---
+name: "SoundPipe"
+subtitle: "Route any app's audio into any other app, one-click install"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://soundpipe.app"
+linkText: "soundpipe.app"
+source: "Product Hunt"
+topics: [macos-apps, music-and-sound]
+tags: [audio-routing, virtual-audio, utility]
+description: "Virtual audio routing for macOS that sends any app's audio, or the mic, into any other app, with per-channel volume and under 15ms of latency."
+---
+
+SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices that let you wire any app's output, or a microphone, into any other app's input — system audio into a recorder, a mic into a DAW, several sources mixed into one video call. What separates it from BlackHole or Loopback, tools in this category that are normally either fiddly to configure or expensive, is that installing the audio driver is a single click with no Terminal or Audio MIDI Setup involved, and routing runs under 15ms of latency with per-channel volume sliders on a visual wiring diagram. It's a $10 one-time purchase, usable on up to 3 Macs.
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+---
+name: "The Syntopicon"
+subtitle: "Mortimer Adler's hand-built index to the Great Ideas"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460726/mode/2up"
+linkText: "archive.org"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics: [learning-and-reference, history-and-archives]
+tags: [archive, public-domain, reference, philosophy]
+description: "Mortimer Adler's 1952 two-volume index cross-references 102 Great Ideas across the Western canon, now scanned on the Internet Archive."
+---
+
+Mortimer Adler's 1952 index to the Great Books of the Western World: an attempt to cross-reference 102 "Great Ideas" — Justice, Time, Beauty — across the entire Western canon, pointing you to every passage where each is argued. This scan is the second of the two volumes (covering "Man" through "World"), fully scanned and page-browsable on the Internet Archive — a search engine built by hand, before search engines.
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+---
+name: "ten(sor)clicker"
+subtitle: "Type an idea, get a clicker game, entirely in your browser"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://tenclicker.com"
+linkText: "tenclicker.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [ai, web-tools]
+tags: [webgpu, local-llm, browser-game, no-server]
+description: "A browser game generator that uses a small language model running locally via WebGPU to build a playable clicker game from any typed idea."
+---
+
+Type a premise — "sentient houseplants," anything — and ten(sor)clicker's in-browser model builds a working clicker game around it: a big clickable button, upgrade tiles, escalating numbers. The distinctive part is where the generation happens: a small LLM runs entirely client-side via WebGPU, so there's no API key, no backend, and nothing you type ever leaves the tab.
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+---
+name: "TimeGauge"
+subtitle: "52% of 2026 is gone, right there in the menu bar"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://timegauge.minilabs.cc"
+linkText: "timegauge.minilabs.cc"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
+tags: [menu-bar, memento-mori, one-time-purchase, no-tracking]
+description: "A macOS menu bar app that renders always-visible progress bars for the day, month, year, custom deadlines, and your estimated lifespan."
+---
+
+TimeGauge turns the day, the month, the year, a custom deadline, and — if you opt in — your estimated remaining lifespan into thin progress bars that sit permanently in the menu bar, no click required to see them. It's a native, sandboxed Swift app with zero tracking and a $5.99 lifetime license, not a subscription. Underneath the memento-mori framing it's just a genuinely glanceable countdown widget.
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+---
+name: "Winstrix"
+subtitle: "A true window-level Alt+Tab for Mac switchers"
+date: 2026-07-13
+link: "https://winstrix.app/"
+linkText: "winstrix.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [windows-switchers, taskbar, utility]
+description: "Gives macOS a window-level Alt+Tab, a Windows-style taskbar and Start menu, window snapping, and clipboard history, aimed at people switching from Windows."
+---
+
+Cmd+Tab natively cycles through apps, not individual windows — Winstrix adds a real window-level Alt+Tab on top, plus a Windows-style taskbar, Start menu, window snapping, and clipboard history. It's aimed squarely at people moving from Windows who never adjusted to the Mac's app-centric switching model, replicating the muscle memory rather than teaching a new one. It's a $24.99 one-time purchase with a 14-day free trial.
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+---
+name: "Zen Mode"
+subtitle: "One global hotkey that zens any Mac app, not just editors"
+date: 2026-07-13
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://github.com/cabeen/zen-mode"
+linkText: "GitHub"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
+tags: [hammerspoon, focus, open-source, utility]
+description: "A Hammerspoon script that adds one global focus hotkey to macOS: the active window centers and grows while the Menu Bar, Dock, and every other window fade to black."
+---
+
+Zen Mode is a Hammerspoon script, not an app: one hotkey (`Option + Cmd + Z`) glides the focused window to center, grows it to full height, and fades the Menu Bar, Dock, and everything else to black. Because it operates at the window-manager level instead of inside a single app, the same keystroke works identically in Terminal, a browser, or a PDF reader — unlike the zen modes built into individual editors, which only ever cover that one app. Press `Esc` or the hotkey again to restore the window to its exact prior position and size.