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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:47AM (#47014498)
MacOS has severely deteriorated over time. It's handling of windows in general, on multiple screens particularly and new windows and even dialogs opening _behind_ the active application is awesome.
Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:11PM (#45305270)
So why wasn‘t 10 chosen as the 2-bytes prefix to gain 1 bit? Easier to detect encoding errors?
Sounds great! Wanna post on GH Discussions with your idea and we take it from there?
Author here. With https://evcc.io I have (with tremendous help) developed a home energy management system, originally for solar-optimised EV charging (big in Germany/Europe with users in the US or even Australia). Turning into a general HEMS proves hard. While all our current algorithms are strictly predictable, we're lacking global, multi-goal, non-linear optimisation. Maybe SAT solvers, maybe non-linear programming, maybe stochastic or ML/AI can be part of the solution. We have lots of data but no algorithm or technical approach and I'm unsure where to go next.
Re:Sublime Text 4 on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:29AM (#27316552)
Too late, too little. Please don't get me wrong- I'm saying this with the utmost respect of a long-time paying user. I used to love and recommend ST but then it stalled in development. Have replaced it with VSCode ~3 years ago.

The approach VSCode takes as platform with a clear development and plugin model is imho better suited and what gives VSCode the competitive advantage (apart from MS backing it of course).

What remains is the Sublime keyboard shortcuts that I‘m using even on VSCode.

Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:34AM (#24671583)
Really great to have something that feels a lot like Airtable open source. If I had a wish I'd say decouple the database layer instead of providing support for more databases. Let the community help build abstractions and that way also open Firetable for non-public or embedded data stores/ data bases.
Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:10AM (#21027550)
I still can't work out how the formula shown translates to the code given. Any hints?
Sublime Merge looks a lot like SourceTree from the approach it takes. Must say that I'm happy with SourceTree after having had a slow start...