macOS Needs Its Grid Back
Key takeaways
- Jun 01, 2026 12 minute read Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today.
- TLDR; I built an app to return mac OS spaces to its Pre-Lion Grid-enabled Glory.
- Around the time I was experimenting with Japanese toilets, I was also experimenting with desktop operating systems.
Jun 01, 2026 12 minute read Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together.
TLDR; I built an app to return mac OS spaces to its Pre-Lion Grid-enabled Glory. Read on for the increasingly rare experience of an actual human dropping a bit of nostalgia, the thinking behind why make this and some issues encountered along the way. Or just download it here
Around the time I was experimenting with Japanese toilets, I was also experimenting with desktop operating systems. I had spent most of my developer career up to that point using Windows but had begun trying desktop Linux and then macOS after a popular presentation enticed me enough to buy a Mac just so I could start using TextMate.