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RectangleSoftware

by Ryan Hanson

Who uses, recommends or left Rectangle, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
loved

Rectangle a window manager; I love that I can arrange my windows exactly how I want using just keyboard shortcuts

His /uses page listing the applications, extensions and equipment he works with. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, content/rootPage/uses.mdx in his site repo sreetamdas/sreetamdas.com.

2024-07-14·sreetamdas.com ↗

American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open source, writing at joeprevite.com.
uses

For window management, I use Spectacle (personal) or Rectangle (work).

His /uses page, split into gear and software, last updated 04/26/2020 per the page itself.

2020-04-26·joeprevite.com ↗

British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
uses

I've just switched to Rectangle which seems to be an open-source fork of the project.

His /uses page, "Software and hardware that I use". The date here is the page's own article:published_time metadata.

2020-01-30·marclittlemore.com ↗

Member of technical staff at Anthropic; previously led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, RecSys and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
mixed

While Raycast already has window management, Rectangle lets you hit the hotkey again

'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.

2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

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