Window Sweaters

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/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!!

I misread the title and was expecting a collection of windows-themed sweaters like Microsoft (used to?) put out every year.

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?

This is the cutest thing I've seen in a while, love it! :-)

Brings back memories of the good old whimsical days of mac kaleidoscope

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.

As someone who don't really like everything borderless these days I love this. Well done!

I was just wondering how to keep my little mac windows warm in the wintertime. Thanks for this!

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.

It would be nice if the title mentioned it's for macOS... Cute anyhow :)

These are cute, it pairs well with my app for macOS that turns your menu bar into an Aurora :)

https://aurora.radiantmachines.com/

Haha so silly but I love it. Well done

Just in time for winter.

These are beautiful. Such a great idea!

such a good timing for the sweater weather

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

Installation instructions: "You can just send this repo to your coding agent and ask it to install Window Sweaters for you:"

Please shoot me already, I can't take it anymore. This is three levels more stupid than pipe curl to bash.

This is urgently required on Windows. Windows windows have no borders and you never know where one ends and the other begins.

Just imagine getting your computer compromised by these cute sweaters

All my life, never did I know, that I was missing "window sweaters"! This looks fun!

Whats next? Folder mittens?

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!

I hope it still works in six months when the southern hemisphere winter begins. Brr!

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?

Not to be confused with Windows Sweaters.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2023/11/28/windo...

I love this. All I'm going to say.

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.

On a different note for computers in the winter.

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.

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