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Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
yeonsh 4 days ago [-]
Great tool — the auto-tiling grid and repo-based grouping are exactly what I've wanted. As smcleod mentioned, publishing the source would go a long way. A terminal has access to files, environment variables, and credentials by nature, so open source is often a prerequisite for adoption in developer workflows. Even a read-only mirror would help. Thanks for building and sharing this!
olleeolleeollee 3 days ago [-]
Thanks! Appreciate it :-)

Sure, that makes sense. I’ll get it sorted and let you know.

smcleod 4 days ago [-]
I like the tiling concept but I don't see the source code linked, is this closed source? There's no way I'd run a terminal that didn't have publicly inspectable source, there's just too much that could go wrong.
olleeolleeollee 4 days ago [-]
Fair! I certainly could publish the source. It’s more or less just a wrapper for Miguel de Icaza‘s SwiftTerm:

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm

SeriousM 4 days ago [-]
I'm on Windows and I would love to see such a easy solution for the windows terminal.
olleeolleeollee 4 days ago [-]
This is just something to scratch my own itch, I’m afraid, so no plans to build for any other platforms sorry!
replwoacause 5 days ago [-]
Looks really nice! Super clean site too. How did you make the animation at the top?
olleeolleeollee 5 days ago [-]
Thanks! Glad you like! The logo animation is an SVG with CSS keyframe animations.
LimeLimestone 5 days ago [-]
omg, the DMG weighs 3MB and the installed app is only 9MB. Amazing
olleeolleeollee 4 days ago [-]
Thanks for noticing
olleeolleeollee 4 days ago [-]
Emoji got stomped, so ;-)
jamesgresql 5 days ago [-]
This is great, no more lost terminal screens!
olleeolleeollee 5 days ago [-]
Thanks! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to make it more useful. I thought in the next update I’d work on custom key bindings but if there’s anything more glaring, I’d love to hear it.
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throwaway290 5 days ago [-]
> Honestly, if you live in tmux, this probably isn't for you but it's really helped to speed up my workflow.

Fresh honesty, nice.

olleeolleeollee 5 days ago [-]
Haha, I mean ever since launching this I’m learning of a zillion alternatives I should have probably tried earlier but for me the auto tiling is really the main thing and, as far as I can see, no other alternatives really do that for some reason? Maybe there’s a good reason but it suits my workflow anyway
Yizen 4 days ago [-]
Tried it, lean and elegant, amazing tool ! I like the "omarchy/wayland" auto focus of the tab when moving the mouse over, saves a click, this could be added as an option.
olleeolleeollee 4 days ago [-]
Thanks for giving it a shot! We do track hover state already but it's just visual right now — not wired up to actually focus the terminal. Focus-follows-mouse is a great idea though, should be easy enough to add in. Will explore.
Yizen 3 days ago [-]
Thanks ! Another nice to have would be window reordering, but so far, really enjoying it as-is :)
olleeolleeollee 2 days ago [-]
Window re-ordering and mouse focusing added in latest release, should be available fairly imminently. Thanks for the suggestions!
Yizen 2 hours ago [-]
Saw that ! Super useful, thank you !
billylo 5 days ago [-]
love this. thanks for sharing!
olleeolleeollee 5 days ago [-]
Thank you! Give me a shout if there’s anything I can add or change that would make it more useful for you.
rrojas-nexus 5 days ago [-]
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