Show HN: Windowfied

by mnky9800non 6/23/2025, 6:02 AMwith 9 comments

My friend was saying to me today that dir in windows is superior to ls in every way. So I created windowfied for macOS on homebrew. This is dumb. I hope you love it.

brew install mnky9800n/tools/windowfied

https://windowfied.com/

by oneeyedpigeonon 6/23/2025, 8:48 AM

I know this is a joke, but as soon as I saw:

    06/22/2025
I backed away very quickly. I assume actual Windows uses the locale, so my eyeballs wouldn't be assaulted with this abomination.

For Linux/Mac users who are happy to stick with ls, but want a slash-formatted date, you can get something that is sane for you (whether or not it is sane for the rest of us) by running:

    ls -l -D '%x'
Where -D specifies a custom date format and %x means 'the date in your locale'.

by magic_hamsteron 6/25/2025, 3:57 PM

This comes in a great timing to pair with the recent release of a modernized "edit" tool from the ms-dos days. You can now download edit for mac, linux and windows and enjoy the simple and nostalgic editor's remake. Personally I quite like it, the shortcuts are super easy. It's a bit barebones but it is so easy and accessible that it might replace nano for me in certain use cases.

by orionblastaron 6/23/2025, 6:03 AM

You didn't create a good link, try this: https://windowfied.com/

by bigyabaion 6/23/2025, 6:09 AM

  * Requires Homebrew. If you don't have it, what are you even doing with your life?
Nix, spending quality time with the family as opposed to debugging architecture-specific formulæ errors.