alexruf

You are right that it is harder those days to find good quality content on YouTube. Most of the content you get presented is just click bait and optimised for monetarisation. However, the real issue here is the assumption that people need AI optimised personal content recommendations. The opposite is the case. Now we trained all those algorithms over the years and were teaching them to recommend us all this shitty content. Welcome to the future!

Congratulations. Zas looks very cool, I will definitely try it out and see if it can fill the (large) gap between Visual Studio Code and a full-featured IDE like Goland or CLion for me.

Can you please give an outlook in which direction you plan to go with Zas Editor in the future? Is the plan to target only a few specific programming languages, like currently Golang and Rust, or do you want to become a generic code editor like Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text and support a large number of languages and formats?

Since a few people already have mentioned Rectangle for Window management, I wanted to point out that there is also a payed version of it called Hookshot (https://hookshot.app/). The same developer also offers a great app called Hyperkey (https://hyperkey.app/) which defines CAPS as your hyper-key.

This might be the case for some users and basic use cases like surfing the web and text writing. But there are still a lot of issues for pro users and developers. If you rely on such a machine for your daily work, its not mature enough.

As much as I would like to get one of those M1 Macs, this is exactly the reason why I will wait for the 2nd generation of their processors. My Intel MacBook runs rock solid and stable. Until the ARM Macs haven't reached that level of stability, I am not willing to make the switch.

Personally I don’t see a scenario for myself, but I can imagine that there are some where this might be useful. But isn’t there a extremely high risk of data loss an inconsistency when adding an extra layer on top of OS file system handling?

Also using Firefox for years as my main browser. Can't complain. Never really considered switching, since there is no real alternative for me in today's browser market (especially in terms of privacy).

> Agreed. I want a .app file for macOS that does everything Docker Desktop does, without the bloat.

Everything Docker Desktop does, without the bloat of the Desktop app ;)

Perhaps I have misunderstood something, but the Docker engine remains free and open source. What annoys me is that they treat Windows & macOS users differently than Linux users. Linux Desktop users this doesn't impact at all. I have never used the Docker Desktop application. But for me as macOS user Docker Desktop was the only way to run the Docker engine native (more or less, I think they use HyperKit under the hood) on my host system. Is there any alternative to run just the Docker engine on macOS just like Docker Desktop does? I don't want any Kubernetes on my Laptop. All I need is the Docker engine and the Docker CLI.

There is also the possibility to have a .gitattributes (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes) file per path.

Regarding the licence upgrade options: Are there any solutions for users owning a single licence for both Sublime Text 3 and Sublime Merge? My Sublime Merge licence for example is still valid for 2 years from now. If I try to upgrade my current licence and want to bundle them together it says the price is 152 USD. Any options for users like me to not make them pay twice when choosing the bundle licence?

I purchased Factorio recently because this game looks amazing. Anyway I couldn’t manage to really get into the game because it’s just overwhelming. Can someone recommend any good tutorials or guides to get into it so I can start building my awesome factories?

brew info pdftotext

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/pdftotext#default

Idea behind Rga is cool. Anyway, I tried it on Mac and installed via Homebrew. The formula already says it depends on ripgrep (that's fine since I have ripgrep already installed and use it regularly). I still was surprised when I executed Rga for the first time and got an error message that 'pdftotext' was not found. Since pdftotext has been officially discontinued, I am not sure if I want to install an old version just to make Rga work on my machine. Don't think it's an good idea to rely on a project which is not maintained actively.

What’s wrong with Go‘s GC. I think it’s actually pretty fast and gets better with each release.

The Go Team has actually communicated this matter extensively through your blog (https://blog.golang.org/v2-go-modules).

Personally I like apps which provide both - a subscription and pay once model. I have no problem paying monthly for an app I use on a daily base. But I don’t want dozens of subscriptions for all my apps to run in parallel. The problem is that a lot of apps with subscription models don’t provide enough value to justify a monthly payment fee.

Also try cmd+shift+5

I am using Firefox now for almost 7 years as my main browser (Chrome still installed for some pages not properly working in other Browser). But the number you are mentioning here are just not true with current versions of both browsers. Overall I agree that FF still has potential to improve it’s rendering performance (like every other browser). But as an end user it’s not noticeable anymore. Quite the opposite is the case for me since FF always used way less resources than Chrome on my notebook.

Agree. Not sure what else needs to happen to encourage Chromium users to finally give Firefox a try.

I never used Brave myself. The problem I see with Brave is is their business model being counterproductive for the web. If I understood correct, they block ads placed by the the content creators, just to replace them with their own monetization model... doesn't seem fair to me.

OK, but it's not Firefox's fault if web developers don't stick to standards and use Chromium-specific features. The bad thing is, the less people using Firefox, the harder this problem becomes and Chrome defines the de-facto standards.

I am using Firefox as my main browser for almost 7 years now (exclusive for ~3 years). As I see it Firefox is the only reasonable choice if you are looking for a browser respecting its users privacy.

Personally I never had problems with Firefox breaking pages or having noticeable performance issues. Quite the opposite seems to be the case, since it feels faster and better with every update they released. I really can’t understand all the people constantly complaining about Firefox being slow and buggy. 90% of the time I had issues, it was because of poorly written browser extensions or ad-blockers breaking stuff. It feels like most of the people complaining about Firefox are just looking for excuses to justify why they are too lazy to migrate.

The dangerous thing is when another new Chromium based browser, such as Brave or Edge, appears, which often makes it even worse for the user, since they just share your data with another company.

Hammerspoon is free, but you have to write your automation scripts in Lua. If your comfortable with Lua this might be totally fine and give you a lot of flexibility.

Keyboard Maestro on the other side is commercial software with a nice UI editor were you can compose automation scripts by simply dragging and dropping actions. Personally I use Keyboard Maestro and find it absolutely worth its money. Even without any programming experience you can create powerfull scripts within minutes. I use it as clipboard manager, snippet manager, text expansion and much more.

Currently trying http://www.bear-writer.com/

As I see it $70 is a lot. VScode is free and offers me almost the same (if not more), plus it's activly develop.

To be honest after more than 4.5 years of development I don't care anymore about Sublime. Meanwhile there are a plenty of alternative editors available with very simmilar functionality. So why pay a lot of money for a poorly maintained editor?

Golang doesn't need more package management tools - it needs a standard build-in package manager! My vote goes to: https://glide.sh/

Good to see that. Hope more services will support it also soon.

Since I am from Germany and our banking and tax system is quite similar to the Austrian, I totally agree with Armin in each single point!

Maybe not exactly what Armin described as a solution - but did you already check Flattr (https://flattr.com/)? This also might work for supporting OpenSource projects.