Deck your Dock with holiday lights with Simon Støvring’s Festivitas app
The holidays really arrived in my household today. Not only did my wife and I harvest and decorate our Christmas tree…
…but I also decorated my macOS desktop! Developer Simon Støvring (of Runestone, Scriptable, Jayson, and Data Jar fame) has launched what’s sure to be the hit app of the holidays: Festivitas.
The one-liner description:
Festivitas brings the holiday spirit to your Mac with festive lights for the dock and menu bar 🎄
I loved watching the development of this delightful little app as Simon added the animated lights, menu bar option, the ability to grow and shrink with the Dock, and more. It’s amazing how quickly it came together — about a week! — while being a polished Mac app. Here’s its settings window, which allows fine-tuned adjustments for all sorts of things, including the colors of the lights.
I set mine to match the wonderful nano-chromatic wallpaper by BasicAppleGuy! Or you could follow Jason Snell’s lead with Apple’s traditional six colors.
But perhaps my favorite little-yet-over-the-top touch that Støvring added is the animated app icon in the Dock:
All the joy it’s already brought me in just a few hours is absolutely worth Støvring’s €4 asking price on Gumroad.
The real question is, how far into the new year am I going to keep these Festivitas lights up? If my trend with our Christmas tree is anything to go by, it will be far longer than is socially acceptable. You’ll never stop me! 🎄