Get involved

Nightdrive is work in progress, and help of almost any kind moves it forward:

  • Try it on your machine. It's used daily on a MacBook Pro 14″ with M2 Max only. A report from a real PC (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics) or any other Apple Silicon model is valuable (in Discussions), whether everything worked or something broke.
  • Ask or share in Discussions: questions, ideas, how it runs on your machine, or a screenshot of your setup.
  • Open an issue for a bug or a rough edge. A screenshot or the output of the failing command helps a lot.
  • Send a pull request. Keep it small and in the spirit of the rest: plain files, comments that explain why, and nothing personal (that goes in the git-ignored local slots, see Make it yours). AGENTS.md has the working notes, handy for people and coding agents alike. Not running Nightdrive yourself? nightdrive sandbox runs the desktop in a headless container on Linux with Podman and a GPU, for checks and screenshots (docs/sandbox.md).
  • Wallpaper artists welcome. There's only so much time, and wallpapers are where I'd most love a hand. The ones in Nightdrive were made with ChatGPT image generation for now, and I'd much rather ship art by real artists. If you make synthwave art, or know someone who does, and would like to see it on Nightdrive desktops, say hello in Discussions.

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