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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS 488 by a-ve | 279 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. The main thing I missed was a simple taskbar that shows the windows in the current workspace instead of a Dock that mixes everything together. I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock. It shows only the windows in the current Space, lets you switch Spaces by scrolling on the bar, and adds a desktop switcher so you can jump directly to any Space. You can also hide the system Dock, pin apps, preview windows with thumbnails, and launch apps from a searchable menu (I keep Spotlight disabled because for some reason it uses a lot of system resources on my machine). I’ve been dogfooding it for a few months now, and it final...

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs 540 by ramkarthikk | 148 comments on Hacker News. With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://ift.tt/sdDOaPy Non-minimal: https://ift.tt/XcHjIWU If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.