Lily
Posted on Jul 22
• Originally published at dev.to
This is part of my "Claude Code environment" series. Last time, in The Environment-Degradation Sentinel, I wrote about self-diagnosing a Claude Code environment. This time it's a different kind of workflow cost.
Picture eight Terminal.app windows scattered across an ultrawide monitor. A single command snaps them into a 4×2 grid. It looks like "just line up windows with osascript," but there are traps across three layers: coordinate-system conversion, AppleScript's asynchronous behavior, and macOS's row rounding. In this article I'll explain the two design cores and the five traps I hit during implementation, with real code.
