Yeah, so the reflective LCD technology isn't quite dead. I guess when both reflectivity and quick refresh rates are required, monochrome LCD is still the only solution, since Liquavista and Mirasol were discontinued. For color displays there is simply no solution at all with decent reflectivity I believe. The E Ink Gallery 3 display seems to mostly solve the low reflectivity problem, since it does not rely on standard additive sub-pixel color mixing. But there is no similar solution for higher refresh rates. There were improved Mirasol prototypes which apparently solved the issue, but shortly after they were shown, the development of the Mirasol technology was discontinued.
The article suggests a good first step, but I recommend using a 3-way capable merge tool for an even better experience. 3-way merging with a reasonable UI should be the default, I don't really understand why it still isn't. It makes large and complex merges easy. My merge tool of choice was kdiff3 for the longest time, though these days I'm using Beyond Compare which is a commercial product.
Meld here, for years. It is capable of editing in place and three way compare. It's a very good tool, and quite lightweight too.
I'd rather use KDE software though, since my desktop environment of choice is Plasma. I haven't found the edition-in-place feature in KDiff3. Is it there? Kate also being my code editor of choice, that would be amazing. If it's not there, how do you solve merge conflicts with KDiff3 if you don't have editing in place?
my point is that there is an opportunity for a framework that solves all these problems out of the box.
you could argue that drawing text is not a problem that a framework should solve. yet they do, so there is no reason that a framework cannot solve the typical problems of audio applications and inter thread communication etc.
I was shopping for a new monitor recently, and I considered 3 different models from Samsung, and all 3 had so many complaints from users indicative of serious QA issues in at least their monitor division. I hope they sort their issues out, their products on paper at least, are compelling.
On lower dpi monitors I use bitmap fonts with no smoothing for coding, they are crisp. See http://upperbounds.net/index.php?menu=download for a bunch of these fonts (I use Proggy Clean with slashed zeroes and bold punctuation). Note that you may have to play with your font size and turn off any antialiasing in your editor to get it looking right.
I used to use an Ergodox Infinity that I built from a kit. Since then I've moved to the Model 01 from https://keyboard.io
Why? I find the thumb clusters way better, I feel like they're just a bit too far away on the ergodox keyboards. That, and the shape of the keys and the curve of the stagger are better IMO.
The downside is you can't use any keycaps because they're unique to this keyboard.
