Computer hardware has become more powerful, but it's not always obvious how we've used the extra compute.
It's obvious for monitors though. Newer monitors are consistently more pixels, requiring more work per redraw.
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I'm not a fan of the mastodon web UI behaviour where moving down with cursor keys 'snaps' to the next toot.
Is it possible to disable this, so my cursor keys always move the page by a consistent visual amount?
I've poked in the settings and didn't see anything obvious.
I'm working on arity errors in Garden, my toy programming language.
Rather than just saying "expected 3, got 4 arguments", I'm trying to report where the extra argument is, or what extra argument was expected.
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.