clumsysmurf

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Comment · 4 days ago
In 2026.2.2, I have Tools / Terminal / Reworked 2025 selected but the font selection seems buggy. It doesn't allow me to pick several fixed width fonts, including the one I use in the main editor, and there are no weight settings.

Ghostty didn't have issues with the same font, not sure what the problem is.

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Comment · 14 days ago
Wouldn't the cost to fix something in production be expensive, because many things won't be reported until one of your users got pissed off enough to report it (hopefully accurately) enough to fix?

In other words, you are shifting cost onto users doing your QA now.

Comment · 20 days ago
Comment · 20 days ago
Thanks for the heads-up on Textual!
Comment · 20 days ago
Tried Halloy on macOS for ~6mos, has some serious issues ...

(1) It silently disconnects from the server without indication, and does not reconnect. You might assume it is connected, until you send a message and see "message can not be sent". You will lose conversation history unless using a bouncer. Clicking around, all the buffers will clear indicating some major state issue, and you will have to restart it.

(2) Consistently uses ~5% CPU doing nothing at all.

(3) Doesn't behave like a macOS app, pressing the red "close window" button will close the window, but the main process goes ANR.

After leaving Textual since that was discontinued, guess I'm looking for a macOS IRC client again. Might give Mango a try.

Comment · 28 days ago
I don't get the impression Mozilla puts much effort into Firefox on macOS - whether its performance, or fitting in UX wise. So it's nice to have another browser on macOS that can run uBo.
Comment · 1 month ago
The RPI Zero 2 has micro-USB ports ... there are plenty of reasons given for this, which arguably made sense 5 years ago. I'm not sure about 2026 though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Don't feel sad or sorry :) There are other options, like Orion that runs uBo just fine. I haven't used it enough to say either way though.
Comment · 1 month ago
I gave it a few minutes of trial and then disabled it.

With memory prices increasing, many people unable to afford new machines, and web browsers being one of those things that can potentially take a lot of system resources, I wish the Firefox team would prioritize CPU and memory performance of the core engine for users with lots of tabs.

I have stuff like 'Auto tab discard' installed but it seems to break other things, like 'Close Duplicate Tabs'.

Comment · 1 month ago
This devkit does look fun. I had a few small personal projects I though might be worth writing for Android Wear OS, but Google isn't worth the hassle, and this little ESP32 Watch might be less friction.

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