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Window Sweaters

nickswalker

Comments (67)

  • lnrd
    Not necessarily related to this or the author, but with all the supply chain attacks going on this year I sadly lost all trust in running something from a new GitHub repo that doesn't come from some trusted person/entity.Love the idea btw, reminds me of a similar app that added xmas light to the dock.
  • gordic_sara
    heeey, I'm the author of this! can’t believe this made it to Hacker News lol. thank you for posting it!a bit of context: I’m a product designer, and this was my very first open source project. I made it purely for fun, here’s where it started: https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219screenshots: I added the little video now; you can see many more screenshots on X, a lot of ppl shared their owntrust: totally fair; if you’d rather not run my binary you can build it yourself with the steps in the README.the “send it to your coding agent” install line: that’s for ppl like me :DI’ve learned a tooon by open sourcing this; thank you all for the feedback!!
  • jjuel
    Things like this used to be a lot cooler before LLMs. It used to show someone actually spent time and worked hard on something mostly pointless. Now you can just point an LLM to it, and be done. Projects like this have lost their magic.
  • focusedone
    I misread the title and was expecting a collection of windows-themed sweaters like Microsoft (used to?) put out every year.
  • StilesCrisis
    Feels like a weird omission to show zero screenshots of what it actually looks like. All the images are synthetic empty windows in a void.
  • gourneau
    These are cute, it pairs well with my app for macOS that turns your menu bar into an Aurora :)https://aurora.radiantmachines.com/
  • AlotOfReading
    This is very cute. I set up my Android UI with a [conceptually] similar thread border and colored fabric tiles [0]. I've been wondering if it's worth extending the skeuomorphism to my desktop environment.[0] https://ibb.co/HfdX61Mv
  • hmokiguess
    I stopped using JankyBorders because of a limitation it has with Stage Manager which I somehow got used to using it.Looks like there's no way to support Stage Manager without creating some strange ghost border thing due the way it captures and records the application window.
  • anon
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  • dumberquestions
    Just in time for winter.
  • gumby
    I hope it still works in six months when the southern hemisphere winter begins. Brr!
  • lowonkarma
    Just imagine getting your computer compromised by these cute sweaters
  • jahala
    All my life, never did I know, that I was missing "window sweaters"! This looks fun!Whats next? Folder mittens?
  • alex_c
    Thanks, I hate it!Jokes aside - this produced a visceral reaction in that I would never want this anywhere near my own desktop. While at the same time making me so happy that something this silly exists for the people who do enjoy it!
  • Scharkenberg
    It would be nice if the title mentioned it's for macOS... Cute anyhow :)
  • Kwpolska
  • kraig911
    I love this. All I'm going to say.
  • aymenfurter
    These are beautiful. Such a great idea!
  • SrslyJosh
    > You can just send this repo to your coding agent and ask it to install Window Sweaters for youLazy and wasteful. Why do this when the process is running two commands?> brew trust saragordic/tap > brew install --cask saragordic/tap/window-sweatersWhat is the point here? This just seems like virtue signaling.
  • verandaguy
    Is it just me or do the install steps really seem a bit silly? Who's using an agent to automate a brew two-liner?