tonsky

too much pictures?

(Logical) Pixels + system-wide scaling, problem solved. Windows already got it (apparently, since Windows 95 times!), macOS too, but more poorly

Clearly you have never tried to center text inside a button

You can set DPI correctly and match physical size, but why? Viewing distance still varies greatly, so there’s no point for a button to be 5mm tall always

In pixels, yes. In physical size, no (pixels are much smaller on 14" than on 18")

In browser, yes. Screenshots are of Sublime Text, which is a native app.

The only font I’ve seen that reported cap height wrong is Ubuntu Mono. Nothing stops designers from misreporting this metric, sure, but in practice it is MUCH more consistent.

My theory is fractional scaling was hard and integer was easy, so they went the easy way. Don’t think artists were asked, since I saw non-integer-scaled iPhone and non-integer-scaled default on retina macbooks (which are both implemented by rendering at higher resolution, leading to worse results than direct frational scaling)

Here’s a picture with more samples:

https://s.tonsky.me/imgs/font_size.png

There’s nothing to hide: some fonts’ height adds up to font-size, some don’t. Because it’s not a rule, you can’t rely on it, so it doesn’t change a narrative.

Fira Code is one of the fonts that don’t add up, though. 31.19 != 32, no matter how hard you massage it.

P.S. for other examples, I also chose the extreme examples to better illustrate the point. But I only chose relatively well-known fonts, so it’s not all random or manipulated.

I just didn’t spent much time actually implementing this. It was a quick joke. BTW emoji stay visible too!

Many fonts are designed so that you’ll set at least 1.2 line height. 1.0 barely fits the characters themselves

Those should not be drawn by font. I believe the only way is for the app, e.g. terminal, to intercept and draw them directly, not through the font. Otherwise you’ll get horizontal gaps too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/449

Comfortable line-height usually has enough space for any diacritics. If you want to go tighter, you’ll need to know you won’t have them. But that’s true today too.

You are welcome! Glad you liked it

I guess FF ships its own version

So that you will remember it. If it was just a white page, you wouldn’t even recognize it as something different

4k 60Hz should work no problems. Last Macbook that didn’t supported it was 2012 retina.

4k can be driven by Mac at 120Hz, but the mac has to be new enough (2018+ is my guess, based on thunderbolt 3 upgrade in 2018) and have a discrete graphics card.

I don’t really understand the concerns about brightness. On my current display I work at 20% brightness, otherwise my eyes start to hurt.

You get used to it after few days

this is interesting, thank you! And font-weight: 300 has been an old personal nemesis. That explained at least part of it! Do you know if font dilation is on by default?

macOS becomes more and more crap, but does it mean I can’t express my opinion about other programs anymore?

The problem with Dropbox is that I have to go to that UI and explicitly exclude each target/classes folder after I create a new project. And I have to do it on every machine. With syncthing it’s just a regexp that will work for existing and all future folders automatically

This is where theory and practice part ways. If it was a single bug, I’d be happy to file it. I even tried to do so with Jekyll. I located one, found a library, it was already fixed, but not published. Monkey-patched, only to fight next but. And there was not end to it. I didn’t even started looking into pyenv or bazel, which all were also broken in multiple ways.

I didn’t realize local calendars are still a thing. I though they are all hosted. That’s why I didn’t understand what was offered there

I think it only depends on product and team and has nothing to do with OSS/commertial/corp. Sublime Text is fantastic and closed-source. Inkscape is horrible and open-source. Syncthing is both. Photoshop is neither. Good pieces are here and there, not in OSS only.

I would, happily, if you could explain me why?

> By "install it", I thought you meant install Windows, which takes for longer than 30 seconds. It's not a straight byte copy. For one, part of the install process compiles code for your variation of CPU architecture.

That was my point. It does something very slow but unnecessary. If you could install it by straight copy, it would be way faster. And there’re no reasons why it can’t be straight copy (or really fast unzip & compile).

> Google Docs, Office 365

Google Docs disables offline mode by defaults. It only works as long as everyone are almost on the same page. It’s a step forward, yes. I wish using those algorithms was as easy as writing LAMP apps

> Usually my battery dies.

Doesn’t mean it has to reboot. It’s just an implementation design of current OSes. See Phantom OS

> You can format an SSD, download a multi-gig image and install it in under 6 minutes?

5 minutes to download 4 Gb at 100 Mbit/s, 0,5 min to write 4 Gb at 1Gbps

> I'm failing to see the problem with that dialog. It's hardly new.

It’s always been a problem. Trouble is, you want work from both versions combined, not to select one and destroy another

> Everyone thinks that a problem.

Yet new languages (e.g. Rust) are still developed with terribly slow compilers

> It can kill processes (configurable). But AFAIK it doesn't do it randomly.

Well, I meant randomly in a sense that you can hardly predict or control what will happen. Of course it’s a determenistic algorithm, but engineers treat it as a black box.

> Anymore? Really? I reboot my Windows computer one-tenth as often as twenty years ago.

Why do you need to reboot at all?

Icons still need hover text that needs to be translated