prajwalshetty

Dockside can sit next to the Dock or without it as well, btw

Yeah and much more (think all in one), it's a companion app — good for quick temporary drops, but also for keeping important files together and easy to reach throughout. I wrote my thoughts here: https://hachipoo.com/best-mac-file-shelf-dockside

:) hahaha happened to record it when he knocked a great innings!

Dockside is a lightweight file shelf next to the Dock, where you can drag & drop files, folders, apps, and even text for quick access or later use. It also displays recent screenshots and downloads, or your favourite folders or even recent items for easy access. Lightweight and there when you need it, fading away when you don't, Dockside helps you manage frequently used items—all without getting in your way.

The whole idea was to not have a "bank" in between!

I concur on "it sort of made sense to me" in regard to the windows management and I don't think this is due to the fact that I am getting used to the ways of macOS, at least this part.

When I use Windows occasionally, I miss the command+` to switch between windows of the apps, especially when they are far separated out in the Alt+Tab preview.

Good observation

True, I started as a COBOL programmer (did a lot of TELON online screens, JCL, CICS, DB2...) as my first job in 2009, for a biggest retailer - personally it taught me a great deal of software engineering - having a background in electronics engineering helped I guess.

The whole stack, and the complex business built around it over many years makes it so difficult for these large institutions to port their solutions on to a new platform in my experience too.

For a lot of these companies, these backend systems on Mainframes just works and I believe there isn't a proper incentive to move on to a new platform anyway.

The username can be the monitor name perhaps? ;)

Good points, https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-32UN880-B comes to my mind.

Brilliant!

On a different note - GOV.UK in my opinion is one of the most well-designed, practical, and useful public/government sites on the planet.

The rest of the countries needs to take a note on how to design government sites/services

I implemented something like this in bash. I called this status bar sort of implementation as "message bar" to show the ongoing status of the script on a reserved lines on bottom of the screen - I had to implement progress bar one for each task inline (and not on the bottom bar) - and constantly had to switch "states" to save/restore the cursor positions on screen.

This message bar would also become a prompt and take in user inputs on certain events apart from being a static status bar - super useful for the use case.

Cursor positions, scrolling screens, events, progress bar updates, managing child sessions, handling screen resolution changes, taking user inputs...everything had to be catered for in this.

I thoroughly enjoyed developing this and still think it was a bit over the board for what I was developing at the time but I was sent on this path of constant learning so couldn't look back - was worth it.

Here's the project: https://github.com/PrajwalSD/runSAS

+1

I personally keep on eye on new things here - https://tonsky.me

Getting the drivers to work was already a pain, well, this will make it worse it looks like.