Alex Potenza

@apotenza
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I'm not much of a blogger but I've been reading / listening to you all for a very long time. Thanks for everything.

This is my detailed criticism of macOS (in market context of the Neo), and the many paper cuts Apple needs to fix to catch up.

https://blog.apotenza.com/the-neo-cannot-scale-with-macos-behind-on-the-basics

Would be a dream if this somehow reached a wider audience or someone real at Apple. Pass onto Federighi, Ternus, and Joz please šŸ˜…

@gruber @atpfm @viticci @upgrade @relay @Pschiller @stroughtonsmith

The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics

I’m a lifelong Apple and Mac user in Australia.

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I’ve never made a Mac app. Within a few days using Codex I have 2. I didn’t open Xcode once. Free open source. Still a few bugs but I’m amazed.

Green button to maximise:
https://apotenza92.github.io/macsimize/

Do more things from dock icons:
https://apotenza92.github.io/docktor/

You can just build stuff.
@stroughtonsmith @siracusa @gruber @marcoarment @caseyliss @viticci

Download Macsimize

Download Macsimize for macOS. Macsimize turns the green window button into Maximize instead of Full Screen. It also overrides title-bar double-click to use the same maximize behavior. Use Maximize All and Restore All from the Macsimize menu bar icon for the windows in your current space.

Alan Dye to someone probably: "No, let's have the descriptive text only appear below halfway and make it change state while the user is sliding as well." @siracusa @gruber

@atpfm @siracusa Re. E679 macOS 'Save As' vs 'Duplicate'.

I was thinking how modern cloud documents with version history, comments and live collaboration (think Google Drive, SharePoint) arguably make ā€œSave Asā€ less relevant. I don’t want someone creating a forked copy, even myself! I'd rather a canonical document with versioning and track changes.

Having worked in many offices, I'm tired of FINAL_final_ACTUAL_v7.docx.

But yes, macOS UI is still silly, and 'Duplicate' is dumb.

@rafa Hi Rafa, I love HiDock (particularly nostalgia mode). Is there any chance of it working for Stage Manager and the Menu Bar as well? Not sure if this is impossible or not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/s/0lf8O1Gzcy

Can anyone on Tahoe confirm if this is real? Is Bartender Sherlocked? @siracusa @viticci @stroughtonsmith

@siracusa would still love to hear your opinion on this as a window management follow up. Would be fun to get insider episodes of Marco and Casey’s workflows too so you can all roast each other. @atpfm

@atpfm this is stable enough that @siracusa should give it a go.

https://github.com/ejbills/DockDoor

GitHub - ejbills/DockDoor: Window peeking, alt-tab and other enhancements for macOS

Window peeking, alt-tab and other enhancements for macOS - ejbills/DockDoor

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