Dan Fessler

Dev by day, artist by night / Developer of @TrellisWM / senior engineer at @Roblox / prev. CCO @incite_dev, CVO @CoreGames

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS

Its how the desktop should have always been.

Download at
https://t.co/7bkE5kwfio

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@Gsimone It’s like regex to me. I have to relearn it every time I want to use it.

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@Gsimone @Arvydas_B lol I had the same thought

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

“Retro” … “Diablo 3” …

[Arvy @Arvydas_B]

A good thing abt retro games is - it's difficult to run out of them

I finally got my hands on the Xbox 360 version of Diablo 3, emulated. It plays so well with the controller! As for the game feel and particular UX decisions - it's a standout conversion

And the art direction 💛

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@MaximumADHD lol this is great. Btw you might hate me because I’m about to undo that top squish in the cyclorama so you don’t have to reverse this process in the future haha

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@leoliuym @tldraw @tiptap_editor @trySynara @1weiho @openknowledge So cool! this is amazing!

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

This is by far the coolest thing i've seen use my https://t.co/pvXK5CJktZ library so far.

The app is so well designed and fricken good. Give the guy a follow!

[Leonardo @leoliuym]

Introducing Lattice, a local LaTeX workspace for your research.

A paper is more than a .tex file: the papers you cite, notes, slides, Overleaf co-authors and now an AI agent.

I wanted it all in one app, so I built it.

Free to download, open source:
https://t.co/hnoC9AQ84m

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@SteveJobsRisk Thanks steve, big fan. It’s been much longer than 48, still waiting ;)

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

my god. this would be amazing for animation

[neilson @neilsonks]

spatial outpainting

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

I mean maybe? it would have been much more trouble that it's worth as mine had a lot of specific opinions/requirements about the behavior which I already modeled with my web framework.

btw I conceded on "docking" but that's honestly an accurate term, as that's the one used for interfaces where a main "workspace" area (in this case the desktop) is retained as a central tile that other tiles "dock" around at the edges. This is common and the term used in many editors like game engines, etc which is why I also used it and it's distinct from most tiling managers.

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@NarveeStudios Yeah that sounds like an ISP thing. It’s a signed https url which is safe. You can try changing your dns server from your ISP’s default to something like cloudflare or googles public dns

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS

Its how the desktop should have always been.

Download at
https://t.co/7bkE5kwfio

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@NarveeStudios Some ISPs are blocking the .app top level domain for some reason. Could be it

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@l03vrunner I'll leave that for you to judge.

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

Oh look at that, it hit 1M views.

Am I an influencer now?

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS

Its how the desktop should have always been.

Download at
https://t.co/7bkE5kwfio

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@chadneidt that was all manual compositing in davinci, but the guys at @TellaHQ liked it so much they built the same setup in their recording app
https://t.co/lBoZ68T1xP

[Grant @9ranty]

New screen recording style spotted:

- Cut-out camera + perspective screen layout
- Ambient background

@TellaHQ now supports both.

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@MrDelicious4U then go with the free version!

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS

Its how the desktop should have always been.

Download at
https://t.co/7bkE5kwfio

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@wescutshall you can just click the green traffic light to undock a window.

there's also an option in the trellis menu to report issues under help > report a problem

would love to hear any feedback you have!

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@wescutshall Control+option up/down steps in and out of the levels of the view tree

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@brunoborges The premise of your OP was that I’m wasting tokens on things that already exist, but as you now say, it does it better.

I never claimed this was novel (heck, zoomuing UIs go back even further than tiling), I do claim it’s the best UX that the concepts have been packaged in.

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@brunoborges It also doesn’t preserve a tile as a desktop region. Instead of bashing you could yourself do a few minutes of research ;)

[Dan Fessler @DanFessler]

@brunoborges Yabi does not support zooming into subregions of the BSP (also trellis isn’t just a BSP) - it only lets you zoom into specific nodes