Configuring TileCache on Windows and Linux

I had thought that the command + control + space (⌘^␣) picker was emoji-only, boy was I mistaken. Or perhaps it's changed since I last looked inevitably 1-3 releases of macOS ago?

This is absolutely the fastest way to enter any character, provided it's unicode name isn't overly esoteric.

Set up text replacements for your characters in system preferences/keyboard/text/replace with

The order of entries in the .bib file is currently not something Biber can sort by. The information could probably be accessed easily, but there is no interface for it right now.

In a way sorting by order of entries in the .bib goes against the spirit of Biber/BibTeX. The idea is that the backend sorts your bibliography by some meaningful algorithm (cite order, values of fields, ...) instead of relying on you to sort the .bib file.

In your case where you want to sort by year and have multiple works from the same year you can either use the sortyear field to control the order (sortyear = {2016-1}, sortyear = {2016-2}) or you give more detailed publication dates date = {2016-04-23} and sort by full date (see here - you don't even have to print the full date in the document).

I don't believe that the two options of the last paragraph are significantly more work than sorting the references manually in the .bib by moving them around.