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Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Love it, this is the most innovative thing in the browser space for a long while. It's baffling to me how boring most 'new' browsers are - most propositions are 'like X but with less friction on these 2 or 3 things'. I hate that it's only for Mac so far, but glad to see others are on the way. I've been thinking about picking up a cheap older mac for development work, though, and this is one more reason in favor.

I love the spatial organization. I, not even five or six hours ago, had made a note on my iPhone describing something just like it (except where you would get to the spatial organization view by dragging down the bar at the top of the window). My thought was that we (humans) can remember spaces quite well, and certainly much better than we can track a tab's location in an ever-expanding list. IMO, spatial organizatio…

> when it makes its way to other operating systems.

know you're referring to browser, but an OS - I think Oberon - had desktop as much larger than screen leading to ability to zoom around and create piles of windows

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Speaking as someone who often communicates before considering whether the people I'm speaking to share my background knowledge... this might be a more effective message if you ask "have you tried ____?"

Sure, I know this sounds like well-actually anyway, but I tried to soften it by not asking "have you not used..."? On any Ubuntu/debian system this is pretty trivial try using apt install. You've i3 which is an old popular program with a big community. You use it with scripts like dmenu. It's definitely more of a "hacker" setup that your parents probably aren't going to want to use, but if what you are doing is focus…

Spectacle has been succeeded by Rectangle: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

I've been using Rectangle for ~1.5 years now, and it's been pretty stable and gets regular updates and patches.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Thinking about how to achieve some of these features in Firefox 1. An extension like Tree Style Tabs, but in a dedicated tab, which is pinned to the first tab, so easily accessible with `Alt+1`. 2. A keyboard shortcut for detaching the tab (via something like Tridactyl) and then resizing it using a tiling window manager. 2 is easy to achieve, if 1 does not yet exist in some form I might build it someday.

And I too prefer Firefox with Tree Style Tabs, been using that for years. In general similar setups are not uncommon on Linux with tiling window managers. Probably the reason this app is available for Mac only. :) Setting up a nice environment takes time, it doesn't come out of the box. So it is good to see people trying to come up with ready solutions.

For Mac, there's yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
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