Finally got a laptop to replace my fat tower at work - Dell XPS 15 9560. I was allowed to choose which one I wanted and chose the XPS for its Linux support since Dell ships developer edition XPS's running Ubuntu so I figured Linux support would be better than other manufacturers. At first they got me the model with the 4K screen but my monitors are 2K and multi-dpi support in Linux is virtually non-existent and even hi-dpi support on its own is pretty terrible. So I got it exchanged for the model with the regular 1080p screen (which happened to also be the updated 9560 model), which works much better. I'm very glad to report that pretty much everything works, including the TB16 desktop dock, with just a bit of settings tweaking. This post is to help anybody considering getting this setup or looking for help getting things working. For now, I am running Kubuntu 16.04 with KDE Neon installed. List of things I explicitly tested and work: WiFi, Bluetooth Thunderbolt charging
I needed a way to animate any property of an object in JavaScript (not necessarily even an element on the page). I did not find anything satisfactory (to me) online, so I decided to write my own. This is the result. It's a simple animation class, loosely modeled on the Android animations API (in fact, the built-in animation interpolators are simple translations from the Android source code). It is very flexible, and supports animating any numeric property of any object. Animations run at 60 Hz to be fluid if UI elements are being animated. Features: Animate any numeric value Start/stop, pause/resume/restart Repeat - for a specified count or infinitely Reverse animation on repeat. Callbacks for start, stop, resume, end, repeat Custom interpolators NO dependencies Download the code here (includes documentation for all methods). A demo of the code is available here . It simply animates a box moving to the right, but demonstrates how the class is used. Prototype