I’m indulging in undirected tinkering, computation navel gazing, on the Mac this weekend. I’ve been thinking about the way I work, the tools that I use, and testing out some new ones.

Quicksilver has finally managed to unseat the reigning champion Launchbar as my application launcher etc. It’s come a long way since the last time I looked at it, and its Trigger mechanism also manages to replace the hotkey functionality of Keyboard Maestro. It does what I want, and as a bonus Quicksilver is a deep program (I’m fond of the way it can interact with the Finder). Sadly the documentation is shallow, so plumbing into the mysteries of advanced functionality will have to wait a while.