DX7 is a great example of how new technologies can ruin a previously-great user experience. Going from cables and knobs and an "everything is visible at once" UX on analogs to a small LCD panel with data entry buttons was a huge regression.

Any sufficiently quantitative change becomes a qualitative change.

I've been searching for a sloppy-mouse-focus implementation for OSX for _years_. Pretty sure there's something fundamentally incompatible in how app windows are managed.

Looks like Hammerspoon and some lua should do:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.mouse.html

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html

Not seeing a way to get the window currently under the mouse pointer, but this is pretty interesting - thanks!

You can get the positions of every windows, the position of the mouse pointer, and you can focus windows.

This is really cool, I'm gonna try and implement it!

It's also a bummer because Terminal.app has the functionality out of the box: https://macos-defaults.com/mouse/focusfollowsmouse.html

It can be implemented within apps, but not across apps afaict.

I'm glad to see someone tackling the problem head-on instead of just coming up with workarounds.

In my opinion, the Lindy Effect[0] makes a lot of sense in scenarios like this. Personally, I love the fact that the slower evolution of command-line tools gives my personal skillset a longer shelf life. I can add additional capabilities without having to constantly re-learn how to do established work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

> worse problems than it "solves".

I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that you're not in a demographic that is likely to be victimized by deepfake porn of yourself.

You understand that "feeling victimized" is not a good argument right?

Ex. I'm morbidly obese. Someone shares pictures of me (taken in a public area) and laughs at me for that. Is that a crime? I might feel like shit and victimized, but thats not actually an argument that its a crime.

This sort of argument really seems like a way to try to use ick and feels versus actual logic.

Lacking any arguments regarding the subject of discusion one often finds the internet outrage farmer resorting to comments about the persons involved instead.

Because it drives engagement.

Care to elaborate? Are you a rage farmer, or trying to mitigate them?

Rage farmer. It's sucks how well it works. Basically, we have AI personas with one side always over-reaching and looking slightly stupid. This is to bolster the side we think is correct.

Works really well and we're swaying the opinion of a rather local community.

Thanks for your honesty there. Why do you do it, just the money? A cause you actually believe in?

`ncdu` is the single best tool I've ever found for tracking down high-disk-usage directories deep in the filesystem. Run it with the `-x` flag to prevent it from crossing mounts.

Wow, thanks for the pointer, finding it super useful right now to see what's taking so much space in my backups

Better than the kdirstat/windirstat family?

it works in the terminal on a headless server

That’s a plus!

The entire point of the article is that she no longer has to spend upwards of two hours a day using the notepad and pen.