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I made a DIY TweetDeck, but not just for Twitter - for any website/window!

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A video demo

On Windows, you don't commonly have to ask other windows about whether they want to be part of your Multi-Document Interface, so I wrote a little Windows Forms application that lets you set up columns and insert windows into them.

I also wrote a little browser extension so that the column can auto-expand when clicking on images on Twitter/Cohost/Mastodon.

The result is amusing - you can have feeds from different social networks, or different accounts, or even non-browser things all inside one "dashboard".

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sadteaparty
@sadteaparty

this is a delight, thank you!
my only (probably very niche, difficult, and selfish) future hope would be for some way to support multiple rows, by capping the vertical height. use case i'm thinking of would be having something like a 2x3 layout on a vertical monitor.
this is already so useful though, what a wonder.

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YellowAfterlife
@YellowAfterlife

I'd like to support multiple windows with their own columns at the very least. That would allow for a similar effect except for when expanding a column.

A multi-row layout sounds somewhat doable, but will take a bit of work to arrange the columns and also some mechanism to specify row heights (in pixels? Percentages? Both?)

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sadteaparty
@sadteaparty

any permutation sounds lovely, including the multiple window option. the lightbox effect would presumably be constrained to any single window, but honestly that's still better than anything we had going on in tweetdeck and its cohort, as this is so far into the New Functionality Zone.

i could probably see cases for pixels or percents (or both); from my narrow view either would be completely fine.

aside from all of the wishlisting, i just want to again say i'm having an absolute blast with this.

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sadteaparty
@sadteaparty

this is extremely cool! i can easily see myself setting up a separate browser profile just to easily repopulate everything after reboots and such

edit: oh wow i just better realized how you've implemented the viewport/cropping, so that it actually secretly expands the size of the 'window' in order to continue to fill the column. how clean!

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YellowAfterlife
@YellowAfterlife

It's more about SetParent than WinForms - where Windows says "of course you can embed this application into a completely unrelated process", Mac/Linux's response would be "you're going to jail" and you'd have to fall back to something silly like rendering a background window into a bitmap and then rendering that bitmap.

I think you can do this with Electron - I checked and it appeared to allow multiple "views" inside one window using BrowserWindow.addBrowserView, but then you'll need to re-create some other elements of a browser or base this on some open-source Chromium project.

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