Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid
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yeonsh
olleeolleeollee
Thanks! Appreciate it :-)
Sure, that makes sense. I’ll get it sorted and let you know.
smcleod
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
Fair! I certainly could publish the source. It’s more or less just a wrapper for Miguel de Icaza‘s SwiftTerm:
SeriousM
I'm on Windows and I would love to see such a easy solution for the windows terminal.
olleeolleeollee
This is just something to scratch my own itch, I’m afraid, so no plans to build for any other platforms sorry!
replwoacause
Looks really nice! Super clean site too. How did you make the animation at the top?
olleeolleeollee
Thanks! Glad you like! The logo animation is an SVG with CSS keyframe animations.
LimeLimestone
omg, the DMG weighs 3MB and the installed app is only 9MB. Amazing
olleeolleeollee
Thanks for noticing
olleeolleeollee
Emoji got stomped, so ;-)
jamesgresql
This is great, no more lost terminal screens!
olleeolleeollee
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.
throwaway290
> 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
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
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
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
Thanks ! Another nice to have would be window reordering, but so far, really enjoying it as-is :)
olleeolleeollee
Window re-ordering and mouse focusing added in latest release, should be available fairly imminently. Thanks for the suggestions!
billylo
love this. thanks for sharing!
olleeolleeollee
Thank you! Give me a shout if there’s anything I can add or change that would make it more useful for you.
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!