miniblog.

I definitely feel more productive with a larger monitor compared with just a laptop, and I know there have been studies on this. I wonder if it's primarily the window switching overhead? E.g. would a tiling WM with lots of virtual desktops perform better?

Neat Emacs package of the day: frames-only-mode! https://github.com/davidshepherd7/frames-only-mode If you're using a tiling window manager, this lets you create new windows rather than Emacs splitting its own window: https://techtrickery.com/tearing-out-the-emacs-window-manager.html

Pharo 7 includes a tiling window manager!