I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Regarding your layout, it sounds like you'd do better with a tiling WM, but given you're on a Mac, have you tried Spectacle?
Your complaints about the fonts being too big on a larger monitor or having to scroll your head from side to side, how come you don't apply the same layout ideals to the external monitor? The code editor doesn't need to be full width :)
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I will try Spectacle. I don't like that it is no longer maintained. I have friends that love tmux and I should bite the bullet and give that a try.
You are also right that I could follow my strategies on an external monitor. I would, however, want a smallish monitor.
Rectangle could be worth checking out. It's based on Spectacle, but is actively being worked on. I've been using it for a while, and it does basically everything I used Spectacle for.
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Regarding your layout, it sounds like you'd do better with a tiling WM, but given you're on a Mac, have you tried Spectacle?
Your complaints about the fonts being too big on a larger monitor or having to scroll your head from side to side, how come you don't apply the same layout ideals to the external monitor? The code editor doesn't need to be full width :)
I will try Spectacle. I don't like that it is no longer maintained. I have friends that love tmux and I should bite the bullet and give that a try.
You are also right that I could follow my strategies on an external monitor. I would, however, want a smallish monitor.
Rectangle could be worth checking out. It's based on Spectacle, but is actively being worked on. I've been using it for a while, and it does basically everything I used Spectacle for.