lwouis

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by lwouis 6y ago
Check out the Unison programming language ( https://www.unisonweb.org/ ). The codebase exists as a database instead of raw text. It has the clever ideas of having code be content, and be immutable. From these 2 properties, mo
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by lwouis 6y ago
Politics is about where we go. Tech is about how we arrive there. If you disagree on the direction we are headed, discussing different ways to arrive there seems pointless. You may agree with the status-quo politics, but other people don&#x
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by lwouis 6y ago
I recently got to experience a 240hz IPS monitor. Colors and viewing angles are way better than the 120hz TN monitor i had in the past. That said, even at 240hz, motion is still blurry. If i move a window and try to read text in it in motio
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by lwouis 6y ago
Drag a window around on your monitor. Can you read its title when it's moving? This is what it's about: clarity in motion. You assume that average modern monitors are in the 95 percentile and suffering from diminishing returns fro
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by lwouis 6y ago
Most of the world-famous libre software is built without their developers study of massively collected usage data ("telemetry"). I look at VLC as a great example to follow. Their stats show 3.4 billion downloads ( https:/&#
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by lwouis 6y ago
I know, i'm doing it. I was saying I would love for a list of tweaks of that nature. Things I don't know about that I could do to improve performance
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by lwouis 6y ago
I'm the main contributor of an app that emulates Windows's alt-tab feature on macOS ( https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos ). I researched this topic extensively, and eventually decided that I would bite the
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by lwouis 6y ago
Does anyone knows of a similar collection of tweaks, but for getting performance out of macOS? Things like disabling Spotlight so it's not indexing node_modules and other folders, or adding tools to the Developer Tools to disable netwo
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by lwouis 7y ago
Indeed I tried and even though I can get a switch without any frame of UI showing, it is very hard to press and release fast enough. It's not a delay like I implemented, but most likely the UI being terminated before the next frame, so
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by lwouis 7y ago
Could you possibly open a ticket for this performance issue? If you attach OS version, hardware specs, system load, it may be possible to reproduce and get to the bottom of this. Another strategy would be for you to try HyperSwitch ( https:
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by lwouis 7y ago
When I was on Linux I always used i3, so I'm not familiar with KDE. Could you please elaborate on these extra features and how the UX is better?
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by lwouis 7y ago
You can change this line: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/blob/6b5e426e05d47c2... from 0.2 to whichever delay you want in seconds (0 is valid)
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by lwouis 7y ago
I've spent years on windows, mac, linux. I remember in my youth adding a dock with the fisheye effect on hover on Windows XP. What a blast that was :p Nowadays i'm into workflow optimization and this alt-tab window-switching is wh
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by lwouis 7y ago
No worries, I appreciate your enthusiasm! I think all your feedback is addressed within this ticket: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/8 Subscribe to it to follow its implementation ;)
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by lwouis 7y ago
Unfortunately Mission Control is not keyboard-accessible :/
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by lwouis 7y ago
For the slowness, could you please check my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21256353 For the active monitor issue, I have never tested on multi-monitors (I personally switched back to single-monitor after y
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by lwouis 7y ago
> The alt-tab feature in HS also has a flaw: if you switch to an app via the dock icon (or possibly by clicking on one of its windows), all windows of that app become ‘recently used’ in the alt-tab menu. I'm guessing this might be a
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by lwouis 7y ago
> it's pretty sluggish for me Did you take into account the 200ms that's purposefully added? The behavior of alt-tab on windows is also: if you press fast (within 200ms) you don't get a UI but the switch will happen. After
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by lwouis 7y ago
* alt-tab on Windows is for finding a window within all apps. This is the one I cloned for macOS * alt-` on macOS or ctrl-tab on Windows is to cycle between tabs/windows of the current app * command-tab on macOS is to cycle between app
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by lwouis 7y ago
For many of the things you list, you may want to have a look at https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm
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by lwouis 7y ago
Author here. I drew inspiration from HyperSwitch. Unfortunately, it is no longer maintained and is not free or OSS software, so I couldn't take over. Specifically, I wanted to improve on some points: * visual clarity * size of the thum
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by lwouis 7y ago
Author here. I'm familiar with this. I have rebinded these, but basically I use them everyday for tab switching, for example within 1 chrome window, of within 1 terminal window. The reason I made this window-switcher is that sometime
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by lwouis 7y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to replace command tab with it instead of control tab Check out my reply in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21254933
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by lwouis 7y ago
I considered using something like this, but as I explained in another comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21254984 ), I think visual matching beats other approaches. I think the few seconds it takes to think about
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by lwouis 7y ago
Doing command-tab, then selected an app icon, then pressing down; this UX is a drill-down approach where you already know the window belongs to a particular app, and you drill-down from there. I personally prefer the Windows approach where
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by lwouis 7y ago
Author here. > replace command-tab instead of adding control-tab Currently there is no UI to customize hotkeys. I have a ticket to frame work that can be done here: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues
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Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS(github.com)
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