this looks super cute and i'd love to use it... but i'm so afraid of installing anything native on my laptop at this point. especially it's not in the main brew taps, it skips quarantine checks, and needs to use the accessibility access to identify focused window but gives it much broader access.
wish apple had a narrower way to install this stuff. anyway of getting this pushed to the app store?
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.
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.
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!
Thanks I hate it. Here I thought I was coming in and going to see the Windows XP logo duplicate stitched onto a bright blue background as an ugly Christmas sweater. All it is is some Mac OS thing, ugh
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.
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.
I’m from a warm country and winters are, well, cool-fine weather. However, when I had been to countries for work during winter, the worst thing were my hands and the degradation in my typing/mousing agility.
One of the best buy I discovered long back are those Deskmat Keyboard Hand Warmer. Rest your hand when not typing, feel the warmth and remain keyboard agile.
Window Sweaters
(github.com)445 points by nickswalker 5 November 2026 | 132 comments
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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/2098916110787916219
screenshots: I added the little video now; you can see many more screenshots on X, a lot of ppl shared their own
trust: 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 :D
I’ve learned a tooon by open sourcing this; thank you all for the feedback!!
wish apple had a narrower way to install this stuff. anyway of getting this pushed to the app store?
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.
https://aurora.radiantmachines.com/
[0] https://ibb.co/HfdX61Mv
Please shoot me already, I can't take it anymore. This is three levels more stupid than pipe curl to bash.
Whats next? Folder mittens?
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!
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2023/11/28/windo...
Love the idea btw, reminds me of a similar app that added xmas light to the dock.
I’m from a warm country and winters are, well, cool-fine weather. However, when I had been to countries for work during winter, the worst thing were my hands and the degradation in my typing/mousing agility.
One of the best buy I discovered long back are those Deskmat Keyboard Hand Warmer. Rest your hand when not typing, feel the warmth and remain keyboard agile.