Unicode via Alfred
Something I miss a lot on macOS is a fast way to enter Unicode characters. macOS does a pretty good job of handling
combining keys so that you can type é and ö, and it's got a fancy emoji picker, but if you want to enter ∫ or ⚠, you're
stuck using the terrible character picker window:

Well, no longer. If you, like me, use Alfred 4 on your Mac, you can download the following
Alfred Workflow to get a new "unicode
" Alfred command. This uses a fast index to look up unicode characters by name.
The first time you …
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Alfred + dc
I use Alfred 2 a lot on OS X in order to get things done. It doesn't completely change how
I use the operating system, but it comes close. However, one of my pet peeves about it has always
been that the built-in calculator is pretty terrible (even with the "advanced" equals-sign calculator).
I realized this morning that I could fix this, and, lo, the dc alfred workflow was born.
It just takes its input and runs it through the dc
command-line utility, giving you a fully-programmable
RPN calculator. It's not quite as great as PCalc, but it's just a …
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