I’m the author. Boxing turns the new tab into a canvas: big boxes hold small boxes, small boxes hold bookmarks, and you can drag, connect and zoom.
The part that might interest people here: every design call is written up as an ADR in the repo, including the ones I reversed. A free hue slider got replaced by 5 hand-tuned themes because it allowed ugly combos (ADR-0012). The font sizes all derive from one base value with an 11px floor (ADR-0019). WebDAV sync went from last-write-wins to a per-box three-way merge with a snapshot before anything gets overwritten (ADR-0009). There’s also a contrast check in CI that fails the build if a clickable control relies on a too-faint border.
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https://github.com/Xxx91n/boxing
Happy to hear where the design or the code is wrong. Translation fixes are very welcome too.
What’s an ADR?
ADR = Architecture Decision Record. Not tickets, more like short notes, one per decision: what the problem was, what I picked, what I gave up. e.g. why there’s no free hue slider anymore, or why boxes have zero shadow until you hover. Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.
Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.
Apparently “architecture decision records”, I found that in
START-HERE.md- It looks to me like an internal ticket system.