Ask HN: Are there software engineers in big tech who use XMonad day to day?

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    Trying to build the perfect system (by willbush)

  • komorebi

    A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

  • I use and maintain my own tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi), which I was forced to write after migrating from macOS to Windows after years of heavy yabai use. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am probably incapable of using a computer for any extended period of time, for any non-trivial task, regardless of operating system, without a tiling window manager anymore.

    I tend to have Firefox, Beeper, Windows Terminal and maybe IntelliJ open at any given time. I rarely use more than one workspace. The key to this being possible, imo, is avoiding as many of the unnecessary Electron apps as I can. I have pinned tabs for Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Spotify and Discord on Firefox, and I can jump to them quickly with Ctrl+1/2/3 etc. This frees up a lot of screen space and I feel like the performance of all of these things in the browser is a lot better compared to running them in Electron wrappers.

    Beeper is great to have all my personal chats from all my chat networks (Signal, WhatsApp, Instagram etc.) in a single list/inbox in a single app. I will often minimize this when I need more space on my primary workspace.

    I'm able to do maybe 50% of my work in Neovim on WSL, but I will switch to IntelliJ when doing more complex tasks, big refactors etc. This means again that I only really open it when I need it so it's not taking up space 100% of the time.

    I recently released a feature (with a little GUI generator: https://lgug2z.github.io/komorebi-custom-layout-generator)th... allows people to make define custom layouts that work better for them and utilize screen real estate better than the usual fibonacci layout, especially on ultrawide monitors, this has also been a game changer for me in a lot of ways. The basic idea is that you can define the bounds for columns and rows within those columns across your screen as you see fit, and the final column will expand "infinitely" to try and accommodate extra windows that are spawned.

  • InfluxDB

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