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    1 year ago

    I’ve only dipped my toes in so far, but a really great thing is you can have multiple full length-half width windows open if you need multiple references to whatever you’re working on.

    Simple example: you’re designing a middleware app. You can set up the windows

    backend code | your code | frontend code

    or

    documentation | your code | reference code

    In a tiler you’d probably have to make them half-length, switch them out, put them on other workspaces… In a scrolling wm you can just scroll back and forth, with your work still on your screen:

    [ documentation | your code ]

    scroll right

    [ your code | reference code ]

    scroll left

    [ documentation | your code ]

    (of course you can set this up with more than two columns)

    I find it’s a really really nice and smooth workflow












  • I was looking for a mouse recently. My priorities were:

    • Comfortable (i.e. vertical; after getting used to it I’m not looking back)
    • Standard format replaceable battery, since built-ins always end up depleting or swelling and being hard to replace
    • Nice scroll wheel (highly subjective though)
    • Easy switching between Linux and Windows systems
    • Small-ish, portable

    I got the Logitech Lift. I am pleasantly surprised by how nice it is.

    Granted I mostly use my mouse for browsing, scrolling and navigating UIs. The rest is all keyboard. For games I prefer controllers and game pads so precision/high performance wasn’t an issue for me at all.