A tiny utility cuts through the constant friction some users experience with window layering in the modern macOS Finder.
Some people have unreasonable nostalgia for the good old days, when everything was somehow miraculously “better”—forgetting the invention of penicillin, modern electric cars, and ubiquitous internet access. Maybe scratch that last one. Then there’s John Siracusa, a programmer, podcaster, and opinion-haver who has reasonable nostalgia, sharing a feeling many of us have that certain aspects of macOS that Apple abandoned or changed were better. For Siracusa, that was pre-Mac OS X methods of window layering in the Finder. System 7 through Mac OS 9 let you click a single window in a non-foreground application that manages multiple document windows and have the entire set of windows for that app come into the foreground. Mac OS X, continued in macOS, brings a single document window forward. After relying on utilities for decades that gave him the capability he wanted, the end of 32-bit apps with Catalina—notably PCalc creator James Thomson’s DragThing —required that he cause his own to come into being.
