Blog post pointing out the right way to setup your JDK for Android Studio.

Letter 3

Blog post explaining a reliable way to use the Option key on macOS for keyboard shortcuts instead of special characters.

My second letter.

Toggle window resizing, moving or snapping with these Keyboard Maestro macros

Here’s a blog post demonstrating how to stream audio from your Mac to multiple Airpods or Bluetooth headphones using the software Loopback (though not required).

Note on replacing TextExpander with Keyboard Maestro

A nifty fish shell script that allows you to just hit enter and get useful directory information like git status or directory list.

A bunch of useful cli commands for converting & editing images & PDF files

A quick macOS tip on how to remove Terminal.app (or any app) from your Alfred & Spotlight search results

tl;dr: brew install yqrashawn/goku/goku mkdir -p ~/.config && cd ~/.config touch karabiner/karabiner.json touch karabiner.edn # update your edn file with a sample from here https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo/blob/master/tutorial.md # or mine: https://gist.github.com/kaushikgopal/ff7a92bbc887e59699c804b59074a126 goku Background I’ve been messing with mechanical keyboards recently.1 There was one in particular which is a 60% layout that I fell in love with. The trouble with 60% keyboards though is that they can be pretty constraining for some basic operations (like navigation).

I use a 13" MacBook Pro at work these days. Android Studio frequently sent my machine into a tailspin. Over time, I’ve had to tweak and update my AS settings to make AS work well on the 13". I figured I should post them here for posterity and the benefit of other AndroidDevs battling with deathly slow AS experiences. I’m posting the abridged instructions and linking to the blog posts that led me to these settings, if you care for the details.

I’m a little troubled that I love these kind of lifehack videos.