I moved from Keyboard Maestro to Alfred for this, using their visual workflow builder to define simple app switching rules. This has gone through several iterations through the years. If you bounce back and forth between two or three programs on a regular basis, I highly recommend investing in something like this.
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At the time, I was a software developer working mostly on the front-end, so the ability to instantly switch from my editor to the browser shortened my OODA loop and allowed me to iterate very quickly.
I haven't used the ⌘+TAB app switcher regularly for nearly eight years now… my fingers just open the browser with HYPER+k, and that is How Computers Should Work TM. It's hard to overstate the impact of this hack on my computing style. Losh's exact setup for quite a long time: Use KeyRemap4Macbook 1 to map a key to the "hyper", and use Keyboard Maestro to listen for that chord and fire off automations, primarily switching between applications. This enables the user to set a custom keyboard shortcut that will not override a standard keyboard shortcut… effectively a layer of shortcuts that's all your own. No OS X app uses that crazy chord, but most will let you use it as modifiers for a keyboard shortcut. Initially, the Hyper key is a "magic" hack for keyboard shortcut lovers where it assigns a single keypress to the unreachable modifier chord of ⌘⌥⇧⌃. This was hugely impactful and I've pretty much tried everything on it (the shift-key training wheels were frustrating but helped my typing!) and I started playing around with all those tricks, especially the Hyper key.
In 2012, I read the Modern Space Cadet article by Steve Losh.
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