STAX IDE – A zoomable macOS canvas of terminals and tools

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STAX IDE – A zoomable macOS canvas of terminals and tools is a company in show hn launch.

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Hi HN. STAX IDE is a macOS app where every terminal session, code editor, and file browser is a movable, resizable window on a single zoomable canvas. `Cmd+wheel` to zoom out and see the whole workspace; zoom in to one window and use it like a normal app.I built it because I was running 8-10 Claude Code / Codex shells in parallel and tabbed terminal apps kept losing my place. I wanted to see every shell at once and drag them around like Post-its. And have my browsers and notes in there too.Implementation choices that might be interesting:• AppKit, not SwiftUI. I needed manual frame control during drag/zoom to avoid AppKit's display-cycle re-entrancy guard, and got it more reliably out of str

As a business in show hn launch, STAX IDE – A zoomable macOS canvas of terminals and tools is listed here with the public details available about it.

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Website: staxide.com