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by grincho 11mo ago
I had that complaint about Mail too. Then I realized you can begin dragging an email (from the list view), switch apps with your other hand, and drop it into, say, a todo. Of course, this is less discoverable, so I agree a Share button woul
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by grincho 3y ago
Location: Durham, NC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, OCaml, Elixir, Postgres, Elasticsearch, LLVM, ML, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Django, JavaScript, TypeScript, and many others Résumé/CV: h
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by grincho 4y ago
I can't solve all your problems, but here are a few I can do off the top of my head. I hope they help somebody. Hold keys and click to move a window: https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2022-04-16-drag-window-by-clicki...
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by grincho 4y ago
I've been doing this for >10 years with https://manytricks.com/butler/ . Works great! You can also bind snippets of text, scripts, etc. I can't overstate how important it is to have a keyboard that groups f
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by grincho 5y ago
Hit command-return to open the folder the file is in.
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by grincho 5y ago
One good source of Mac mechanicals is Matias, e.g. https://matias.ca/quietpro/mac/ . In fact, it's the only company I've found that makes a true Mac layout: that is, a full symmetric set of command, optio
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by grincho 5y ago
Yes, this is why I implemented hash-checking in pip ( https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/repeatable-installs/#ha... ). Running your own server is certainly another way to solve the problem (and lets you
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by grincho 5y ago
To me, most shortcuts gain nothing by being on mouse rather than the keyboard (which, of course, has much more room). However, when a shortcut modifies a mouse action or otherwise comes into scope while mousing—that is when you get useful l
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by grincho 6y ago
Width-based media queries are simply a corrupt idea altogether. In addition to the problem complained noted in the post, they give rise to other pathological behaviors I encounter daily. I increase the zoom of a page to better see an image,
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by grincho 7y ago
The Mac has provided easy access to symbols since 1984, with nice mnemonics like these: option-= ≠ option-< ≤ option-> ≥ option-/ ÷ option-o ø option-w ∑ I don't know why other OSes haven&#
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by grincho 7y ago
If you're on a Mac, Moom ( https://manytricks.com/moom/ ) can do this.
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by grincho 7y ago
Then charge for bug fixes. Charge for updates that make the application run on a new version of the OS. If those things provide sufficient value, users will pay for them. I've been paying for that for decades for my commercial text edi
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by grincho 7y ago
Check out https://blog.webmemex.org/ . It serializes pages, inlining their external resources, full-text indexes them, and saves them locally. Browser extensions are available for Firefox and Chrome.
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by grincho 7y ago
Note that HN formatting ate the single asterisk before and after. You'll need to enter them as well.
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by grincho 7y ago
I paid $20 for USB Overdrive, an excellent third-party driver, so I could continue using my ancient MS Intellimouse when its drivers took a turn for the worse. You can set speed and acceleration separately, and the curves are as good as the
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by grincho 7y ago
Nudge and you shall receive! https://github.com/mozilla/popup-urls Thank you for contributing!
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by grincho 8y ago
iMessages are encrypted, but it's Apple who hands the client one or more public keys with which to encrypt them—and that's each time; there is no key pinning. They could easily hand you a public key whose private key they or anoth
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by grincho 8y ago
A proper Mac keybaord has symmetric modifier keys (3 on each side of the spacebar) and an asterisk key in the upper right of the numpad.
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by grincho 8y ago
You can set that up only per application, and you can't do anything fast like dragging all your apps into the window. You have to click the + button once for every app on your machine and manually select it from an Open dialog. And the
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by grincho 8y ago
Absolutely. The links even resolve on different devices, as long as you have access to the same mail accounts.
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by grincho 8y ago
Yes. My strategy is to do a daily review. In the first few minutes of the day, I pull maybe 14 tasks out of the big list and into a Today list. Then I see only a manageable number the rest of the day.
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by grincho 8y ago
Things ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ) does pretty much that. It has a little Quick Entry daemon which lets you press control-option-space in Mail.app to make a new task linked to the selected mail. By default, the
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by grincho 8y ago
iOS won't let an app keep a socket open very long once it's out of the foreground. (In generally backgrounding on iOS is unreliable. It's a double-edged sword: it keeps rogue or badly written apps from burning down your batte
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by grincho 8y ago
Make sure you have another copy; flash does degrade over time.
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by grincho 8y ago
Which headphones? And then, when you want to plug them into an (even Apple) laptop, you detach the adaptor and forget to bring it with you.
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by grincho 8y ago
Most devices can't remember more than 1 phone at a time, so you have to continually put the thing back into pairing mode. Every device has a different way of putting it into pairing mode. Sometimes there's a code to type, adding a
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by grincho 8y ago
In software, at least, I've argued that subscription pricing is innately deceptive and, long term, deleterious to the quality of the product. It's a market distortion born of the App Store model, where it's difficult to charg
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by grincho 9y ago
That's the advantage of B2: straight storage, bring your own (encrypting) client. If Backblaze proper had a decent restore story (rather than typing your key into a web page and getting a zip), I'd recommend it wholeheartedly.
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by grincho 9y ago
> It isn't enough to explain how fast Firefox feels now. That's because we've been making a dedicated effort to find and stamp out sources of UI lag! It's called Quantum Flow; see https://wiki.mozilla.org&#
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by grincho 9y ago
Thanks for clearing that up!

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