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15 pointsby riffoniotoday at 11:59 AM7 commentsview on HN

I know the effect makes more sense on the iPhone Duo because of the dual screen, but I wanted something similar on the MacBook: the lid looks like a portal to the real screen. The only app I found that does this charges for it, so it felt like a good thing to ask Astra to build, and I made it OSS. Visual improvements or feature ideas are welcome.


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leftwinglautustoday at 1:13 PM

I don't understand the appeal for this and why people want to bring this to devices where it doesn't make sense. For the Duo it makes sense since you're moving between two panes of glass and they want to show the effect that youre just transitioning to a bigger pane of glass, same content but expanded. Here i dont get it

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lightingthedarktoday at 1:23 PM

The animation doesn't work for me with Firefox on Android. The laptop is totally missing and instead it just shows a static image of a logon screen. I was very confused until I tried it in Chrome.

thehodgetoday at 1:39 PM

I like this, very silly :)

swiftcodertoday at 1:19 PM

It's a very pretty effect.