Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon, the Mac automation tool that lets you script your computer like a choose‑your‑own‑adventure, dropped into the spotlight and the community instantly turned it into a keybinding custody battle. One user pitched it as a “superset” that should replace fancy window managers like Aerospace, arguing it’s better to have “one tool to rule the keys.” Another proudly showed off a one‑hotkey setup—hit Ctrl‑D, pop up a window grid, type a couple letters, boom—sparking a mini‑cult of simple beats clever. Meanwhile, the productivity crowd lit up the thread with a plea for a global Teams mute button, because who hasn’t panicked hunting for the mute icon mid‑meeting? Enter a dev promising a “Spoon” (Hammerspoon’s plugin) to auto‑detect meetings across Zoom, Teams, Huddle, and Google Meet and let you mute, toggle video, and share screens like a boss. Drama alert: someone asked why this was even shared, then flexed their in‑progress mega‑mute project. Elsewhere, folks reported PaperWM jitter—cue the jitter vs. just‑use‑grid debate. For newcomers, Hammerspoon does nothing until you script it, but power users swear that’s the magic. If you want the rabbit hole, the official site is here: Hammerspoon.