Too often, you won't be given time to make your software understandable. Probably almost never. So you have to incorporate a way of programming that leaves your code more understandable after you fixed your bug or added your feature.
I don't know if understandability is the most important thing. However I certainly agree with the author that it's curcial, if you ever want to do more than merley a script or a proof of concept.
"We're going to clean up that code later."
I don't know if it does everything you need, but pinning a tab prevents it from unloading AFAIK.
The search is abmyssal in my opinion. I can't reliably paste links I've found elsewhere — always have to manually change it to match the expected community syntax. I only every use it if I have to, and then I resort to search for the community of interest, and use the community view to find a post I'm looking for. Not suited for discovery in my experience.
It may have improved lately though, I wouldn't know since I'm not using it much.
That's a long list of changes, wow.
Personally, I'm not considering Vanilla OS just yet. It does too many things in a custom way. I am however keeping an eye on the project, since they have interesting ideas and they're making progress in the area of immutable distributions (which will be the future I figure).
Same for Florisboard: press ?123, then 1234.
Side note: Florisboard also allows you to use custom keyboard layouts, which would make it possible to
a) make the numbers keypad accessible with one click from the main layer and b) move the numbers actually to the right side (not in the middle like they're now).
There's a catch though: currently, the process is quite technical. An easier way is planned, but it's hard to say when it will arrive.
I second the recommendation to use NTFS. I don't have the same use cases as OP, but in my experience it works really well. Back in the days when I was using Windows, I had a system and a data partition (i.e. personal files, pictures, videos... you get it). When I switched to Linux, I kept my data partition and just mounted it on my Linux system. I started with dual boot and didn't have any issues. No need to manually install a NTFS driver these days.
That's a couple of years ago and my secondary SSD's still that same old NTFS partition. Thought about moving to a Linux native filesystem, since I don't use Windows anymore, but never had an actual reason to do it.
There's a paid Thunderbird add-on named Owl which adds Exchange support (10$/year). It's not perfect but does the job.
@Tangent5280 for context: Exchange is a custom email/collaboration suite protocoll by Microsoft. Thunderbird doesn't support that. Often, it's not really a problem, because one can enable SMTP/IMAP/POP access for their O365 accounts. However an administrator has to do that, and, for instance, my university doesn't allow that.
Oh, yeah you should. I mean I'd advice against it, but since you already know the pain of switching layouts… sure, go ahead! :D
I prefer Bone over Neo, Neo has quite broad software support though. I'm using Bone on Linux and macOS without any issues.
oh, Good luck with that. Make sure however to respect the users privacy and indexing preferences. People in the Fediverse are very privacy consious and not everyone likes their post scraped and indexed.
I'd start with the Mastodon docs, it's a solid resource to get started.
For browsing on the desktop, I strongly recommend https://phtn.app!