From: Ruben Beltran del Rio Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:26:45 +0000 (+0100) Subject: blog-sync-up-1705616805412 X-Git-Url: https://git.r.bdr.sh/rbdr/blog.unlimited.pizza/commitdiff_plain/f594f8951f2e36de1495fe7f762c0503f577cd2f?hp=e9027a097f31a8c0e91aafa1ca6948fde22b2a4a blog-sync-up-1705616805412 --- diff --git a/archive/1705616805329/metadata.json b/archive/1705616805329/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1cdb33 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/1705616805329/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +{ + "id": "1705616805329", + "createdOn": 1705616805329 +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/1705616805329/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi b/archive/1705616805329/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f543f16 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/1705616805329/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Window management doesn't work because all my windows are huge. + +I have two computers at home with very different screens: one has a resolution of 1512 x 982, and the other one has a resolution of 512 x 342. On both screens I multi-task and get to use similar apps: text editors, file managers, image editors, web browsers, etc. And yet my large spacious laptop often feels more constrained than the tiny screen on the older mac. + +I'm not saying the windowing experience was better in 1989, because it wasn't. But it wasn't all worse either. One of the things I find most irritating is how large screens are nowadays [1]. For example: + +Omnigraffle, a diagramming app can't be resized to less than 57% of the screen width. Transmit, an FTP app needs 58%. Xcode, the official Apple IDE has decided it requires at least 63% of my screen width to operate. Setapp can't let me install apps without taking 72% of my screen width, and Davinci Resolve is generous to give me back a meager 4% of my screen width back. + +All of these apps could go way smaller and still provide a great experience, there's plenty of examples: Max 8, Finder (Without sidebars), Blender. Many of the apps I believe they could change that limit and nothing else and it would work great. Some other apps have decided that design = padding and macspread all over the screen. It's just rude to not let me use all that screen space. + +Meanwhile on the older mac, I find that most apps tend to be friendlier with screen real-estate. Of course without virtual spaces and smaller resolutions you had to! + +Large windows make window management worse, please make your windows smaller. + +=> http://www.unlimited.pizza/min_sizes.html [1] A collection of minimum window widths diff --git a/posts/0/metadata.json b/posts/0/metadata.json index e4fee33..b1cdb33 100644 --- a/posts/0/metadata.json +++ b/posts/0/metadata.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ { - "id": "1705007731083", - "createdOn": 1705007731083 + "id": "1705616805329", + "createdOn": 1705616805329 } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/posts/0/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi b/posts/0/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f543f16 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/0/window-management-and-huge-windows.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Window management doesn't work because all my windows are huge. + +I have two computers at home with very different screens: one has a resolution of 1512 x 982, and the other one has a resolution of 512 x 342. On both screens I multi-task and get to use similar apps: text editors, file managers, image editors, web browsers, etc. And yet my large spacious laptop often feels more constrained than the tiny screen on the older mac. + +I'm not saying the windowing experience was better in 1989, because it wasn't. But it wasn't all worse either. One of the things I find most irritating is how large screens are nowadays [1]. For example: + +Omnigraffle, a diagramming app can't be resized to less than 57% of the screen width. Transmit, an FTP app needs 58%. Xcode, the official Apple IDE has decided it requires at least 63% of my screen width to operate. Setapp can't let me install apps without taking 72% of my screen width, and Davinci Resolve is generous to give me back a meager 4% of my screen width back. + +All of these apps could go way smaller and still provide a great experience, there's plenty of examples: Max 8, Finder (Without sidebars), Blender. Many of the apps I believe they could change that limit and nothing else and it would work great. Some other apps have decided that design = padding and macspread all over the screen. It's just rude to not let me use all that screen space. + +Meanwhile on the older mac, I find that most apps tend to be friendlier with screen real-estate. Of course without virtual spaces and smaller resolutions you had to! + +Large windows make window management worse, please make your windows smaller. + +=> http://www.unlimited.pizza/min_sizes.html [1] A collection of minimum window widths diff --git a/posts/0/decentralization-depends-on-access.gmi b/posts/1/decentralization-depends-on-access.gmi similarity index 100% rename from posts/0/decentralization-depends-on-access.gmi rename to posts/1/decentralization-depends-on-access.gmi diff --git a/posts/1/metadata.json b/posts/1/metadata.json index 492517f..e4fee33 100644 --- a/posts/1/metadata.json +++ b/posts/1/metadata.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ { - "id": "1704232830490", - "createdOn": 1704232830490 + "id": "1705007731083", + "createdOn": 1705007731083 } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/posts/2/link-a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic.gmi b/posts/2/link-a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic.gmi deleted file mode 100644 index 64d68c5..0000000 --- a/posts/2/link-a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic.gmi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -# Link: A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic - -=> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic/ A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic -This is a wonderful collection and description of the noisy cars of Mexico City! - -I didn’t know what to expect from the title, but after going through it I’d say the taxonomy is pretty much on point. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/posts/2/metadata.json b/posts/2/metadata.json index 3c9c46f..492517f 100644 --- a/posts/2/metadata.json +++ b/posts/2/metadata.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ { - "id": "1704107178044", - "createdOn": 1704107178044 + "id": "1704232830490", + "createdOn": 1704232830490 } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/posts/1/notes-on-setting-up-a-mastodon-server.gmi b/posts/2/notes-on-setting-up-a-mastodon-server.gmi similarity index 100% rename from posts/1/notes-on-setting-up-a-mastodon-server.gmi rename to posts/2/notes-on-setting-up-a-mastodon-server.gmi