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Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by sephoric »

Greetings fellow hackers! Author of Autumn here!

I've been writing Autumn on and off for a few months, because there's something really satisfying and rewarding about automating something you do often, and then using that to automate more, and building upward in a cycle.

That, plus I wanted to see how close to building a "legit IDE" I could get while completely faking it with WKWebViews. So Autumn kind of grew from those two principles and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I'd be glad to answer any questions, I'll be here for a few more hours. (I don't have internet at home so I use the library's wifi for stuff like this, and it closes early today.)

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by sephoric »

sephoric wrote: post #2

Greetings fellow hackers! Author of Autumn here! I've been writing Autumn on and off for a few months, because there's something really satisfying and rewarding about automating something you do often, and then using that to automate more, and building upward in a cycle. That, plus I wanted to see how close to building a "legit IDE" I could get while completely faking it with WKWebViews. So Autumn kind of grew from t…

Also, sorry for the terrible website. Web design is not my forte, I'm an app guy, and this was the quickest thing I could hack together in a couple days. Also I'm aware of the issues with the video demo, I'm uploading the file to YouTube so it should be fixed soon!

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by zsprackett »

sephoric wrote: post #3
sephoric wrote: post #2

Greetings fellow hackers! Author of Autumn here! I've been writing Autumn on and off for a few months, because there's something really satisfying and rewarding about automating something you do often, and then using that to automate more, and building upward in a cycle. That, plus I wanted to see how close to building a "legit IDE" I could get while completely faking it with WKWebViews. So Autumn kind of grew from t…

Also, sorry for the terrible website. Web design is not my forte, I'm an app guy, and this was the quickest thing I could hack together in a couple days. Also I'm aware of the issues with the video demo, I'm uploading the file to YouTube so it should be fixed soon!

Chrome throws up a warning on download. Autumn.zip is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous. Discard.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/pV...

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by sephoric »

zsprackett wrote: post #5
sephoric wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, sorry for the terrible website. Web design is not my forte, I'm an app guy, and this was the quickest thing I could hack together in a couple days. Also I'm aware of the issues with the video demo, I'm uploading the file to YouTube so it should be fixed soon!

Chrome throws up a warning on download. Autumn.zip is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous. Discard. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/pV...

Whoa I got that too! I usually use Safari or Firefox (Google creeps me out) but I have tested the whole site in all three browsers, except this one button in Chrome I guess :D I'll check it out, thank you!

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by sephoric »

sneak wrote: post #7

see also: Slate window manager, configured with javascript. https://github.com/jigish/slate

Slate is great, it was one of the first window managers I ever tried. In fact Slate inspired a good portion of the early versions of Autumn. You can almost think of Autumn as Slate with an embedded IDE, built-in documentation, developer console, and an API designed with TypeScript in mind.

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by armitron »

Some more macOS window managers, all free and opensource:

Spectacle, Slate, Phoenix (similar to Slate)

And by far my personal favorite:

Mjolnir which is extensible in Lua! Also, Hammerspoon its continuation.

[1] https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

[2] https://github.com/jigish/slate

[3] https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix

[4] https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir/

[5] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Re: Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

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Post by kiliancs »

sephoric wrote: post #3
sephoric wrote: post #2

Greetings fellow hackers! Author of Autumn here! I've been writing Autumn on and off for a few months, because there's something really satisfying and rewarding about automating something you do often, and then using that to automate more, and building upward in a cycle. That, plus I wanted to see how close to building a "legit IDE" I could get while completely faking it with WKWebViews. So Autumn kind of grew from t…

Also, sorry for the terrible website. Web design is not my forte, I'm an app guy, and this was the quickest thing I could hack together in a couple days. Also I'm aware of the issues with the video demo, I'm uploading the file to YouTube so it should be fixed soon!

Nothing terrible about the website, in my opinion. It gets the job done without getting in your way. And you can always improve based on experience and feedback.

Things I noticed right a way:

- The logo and the title font. There's nothing wrong about them, but they don't reflect much about the application - Scrolling, there are a few elements that appear over the header bar

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