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Mac tools you'll <3

Ever felt the urge to fill up your Mac with functional apps and terminal CLIs? Scroll to find out what we're up to!

cutler / setup your Mac, automagically.

Declaratively put settings, apps, commands and tooling into one single TOML file and let cutler do the rest for you.

Terminal

                            

                        

                    

                


                
                

                    

                        

                            lib + cli
                            

                                defaults-rs / defaults, but
                                open-source.
                            

                            

                                Access and alter your preferences with Machlit's
                                open-source version of the original
                                defaults tool by Apple.
                            

                            
    
                                
  • ✓ Fuzzy-finding
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  • ✓ Native Rust API
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  • ✓ Low to zero dependencies
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  • ✓ Uses CoreFoundation
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                                    Terminal
                                

                                

                            

                        

                    

                


                
                

                    

                        

                            

                                Beautiful tools, just one command away!
                            

                            

                                You can install our apps/tools using your
                                favorite package manager. Homebrew, cargo, mise
                                and self-installing scripts, you name it.

                                

For Homebrew, try this:
                            

                            

                             $ brew tap machlit/tap 
                        


                        

                            

                                
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                                        Lightning-fast
                                    

                                    

                                        Our interfaces are written using
                                        high-performance and type-safe code,
                                        ensuring predictable usage.
                                    

                                

                                

                                    

                                        Highly compatible
                                    

                                    

                                        All of our tools have a default target
                                        of macOS Big Sur 11.0+,
                                        ensuring that your machine always
                                        supports them.
                                    

                                

                                

                                    

                                        Headless (mostly)
                                    

                                    

                                        - ensuring you can even run them in CI.
                                    

                                

                                

                                    

                                        Cute... wait what?
                                    

                                    

                                        Yeah! Our terminal apps are geared
                                        towards people who obsess over syntactic
                                        sugar.
                                    

                                

                            

                        

                    

                


                
                

                    
                    

                        

                            
let pool = unsafe {
  CFAutoreleasePoolNew()
};

                        

                        

                            
CFStringCreateWithCString(
  kCFAllocatorDefault,
  "Hello",
  kCFStringEncodingUTF8
)

                        

                        

                            
CFDictionaryCreateMutable(
  kCFAllocatorDefault,
  0,
  &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks
)

                        

                        

                            
CFRetain(obj);
CFRelease(obj);

                        

                        

                            
CFArrayCreateMutable(
  kCFAllocatorDefault,
  0,
  &kCFTypeArrayCallBacks
)

                        

                        

                            
let type_id =
  CFGetTypeID(value);

                        

                        

                            
CFNumberCreate(
  kCFAllocatorDefault,
  kCFNumberIntType,
  &num
)

                        

                        

                            
let bundled =
  CFBundleGetMainBundle();

                        

                        

                            
CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(
  kCFAllocatorDefault,
  path,
  kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle,
  false
)

                        

                        

                            
unsafe {
  CFRelease(pool);
}

                        

                        

                            
let data =
  CFDataCreateWithBytesNoCopy(
    kCFAllocatorDefault,
    bytes,
    len,
    kCFAllocatorNull
  );

                        

                        

                            
CFComparisonResult::
kCFCompareLessThan

                        

                    


                    

                        

                            
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                                Contributions, issues and discussions happen on
                                GitHub, all-openly. We welcome bug reports, PRs
                                and ideas.