Rice Docs — macOS Developer Environment

Overview

A 5,000-line Markdown knowledge base documenting an entire keyboard-driven macOS developer environment — written to be LLM-editable with explicit instructions like "tell Claude to apply it." The X-Type 4-layer Karabiner architecture maps every symbol and WM action to home-row reach across 43 manipulators. SketchyBar subscribes to OmniWM IPC events, Neovim mode changes, and a CoreAudio CATapDescription HAL tap for an FFT visualiser item.

Tech

Karabiner-Elements intercepts physical key codes at the IOKit layer with named-variable symbol modifier layers. OmniWM provides Niri scrolling-column layout with five named workspaces and built-in quake terminal. SketchyBar renders workspace indicators, focused app name, Neovim mode, and system stats via Bash plugin scripts subscribed to system events. A Swift helper implements the CATapDescription CoreAudio tap for the cava FFT visualiser.