PatSnap
From the Remake-the-world-in-windows Dept.
I have started a new job back in Windows land, away from the MacOS Shangri-La of the last 10 years of my career.
I have managed to align a lot of tooling (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Fork Git client, and my own asdf) but I found myself becoming very frustrated by not having a Windows equivalent of Moom.
Moom is a window display manager with lots of flexibility. I now have hotkeys in muscule memory for “full screen”, “move to the left and make 2/3rds wide”, etc.
I am using a KVM to switch between OSX and Windows, and my continual use of Moom hotkeys in Windows feels like a virtual stubbing of my toe.
Some of the toys inside Windows PowerToys were close (e.g. FancyZones), but not close enough. I trialed AutoIt and AutoHotKey.
With generous dollops of AI, I was able to build an AutoHotKey app that was close enough. It’s not a perfect match, but it makes me happy. It doesn’t do everything Moom does - it only does the small subset of how I exactly use Moom.
Like my asdf project, us programmers need to make our own tools, need to remember that we control our work benches.