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by dmix 2722 days ago
Your Autumn app looks pretty sweet by the way. I've been looking for a simple WM on Mac. The other ones are always needlessly complicated (looking at you Hammerspoon). Especially after using the beautifully minimal bspwm [1] + sxhkd on Linux for years.

But re: zero analytics, aren't you curious how many people use the app at a minimum?

[1] https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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sephoric 2722 days ago
Yeah, I sometimes wonder about those statistics. But I'm not curious enough to invade people's privacy or use any of the other modern marketing manipulations to boost sales. I think if you make a thing and pour love into it, people will love using it, and maybe even want to give you a little money. I've seen this first hand many times and been on both sides of it. That's why I like Show HN, and give apps like JournalBook an honest look, especially when it's clearly a passion project by a single person.

Edit: Thanks for the bspwm link btw, I've been wanting to add a class to Autumn called TileWM (to complement the existing GridWM) but I couldn't wrap my head around binary space partitioning, although I knew that's what tiling WMs usually use. The page you linked to describes and visualizes it really well and now I think I understand it well enough to finally implement it. Although, given the nature of Autumn, someone could probably implement this feature sooner using Autumn itself :D

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voltaireodactyl 2721 days ago
Just wanted to say — I’ve been using Autumn for about a week and it may just be the perfect window manager. And I’ve tried them all.

BST Hammerspoon Moom Flexiglass Layouts Alfred Div MaxSnap Spectacle Magnet SizeWell Etc etc

All of them. So thank you for the hard work.

And I can’t tell you how delighted I was to find THIS point of view from you out in the wild. Agreed entirely.

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sephoric 2721 days ago
Really glad to hear that you enjoy my app that much! I put a ton of hard work into it and honestly yours is the first feedback I've heard about it at all, beside a close friend who beta tested it briefly. If you have any thoughts on features or APIs you'd like to see in Autumn, please don't hesitate to use the in-app Feedback form :) In particular, if you wouldn't mind sending me a copy of your current script, I'd love to see how you're using Autumn!
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grounded042 2722 days ago
Have you checked out chunkwm[1]?

[1] https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/index.html

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dmix 2721 days ago
No I haven't yet, thanks for the link
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