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riddley··on Buy once, use forever A directory of one-time purchase software. Add yours
It would be nice if i could limit by my preferred operating system.
riddley··on Ask HN: What is your favorite lesser known VIM shortcut you can share
When I'm showing people the power of vim, I often use the `i` verb, like `ci"` and how it's not a "shortcut" but instead a sentence: change in quotes. If you start thinking about vim as a language instead of a collection of things to memorize, it becomes much easier, IMO.
riddley··on Ask HN: What is your favorite lesser known VIM shortcut you can share
nvim -o $FILES
riddley··on Ask HN: Custom domain name for personal email?
I use fastmail to host my domains. You could try <yoursurname>family.tld or the<yoursurname>s.tld.

One tip: Since you can set up "fall through" emails with Fastmail, I'm able to use businessname@mydomain.tld for every business I interact with. Emails sent to those addresses will end up in my mailbox and I get the benefit of knowing who sells my email address. Good luck!

riddley··on Why fastDOOM is fast
Pretty sure it's Minimum Viable Product. This is a common term for a product with enough features to prove the value of the endeavor.
riddley··on Programming SDF Animations of Rick and Morty
Super serious question: When will this be a ghostty shader that flashes Rick's face every time I hit return?
riddley··on The Onion buys Infowars
I like Birdchan
riddley··on Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
How do you troubleshoot?
riddley··on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Does Apple make it easy?
riddley··on GNU Screen 5.0 Released
I was a very long time screen user and tried tmux early on in its existence. It was slow and different so I bailed back to screen. Last year I tried tmux again and have switched to it full time.

One of the things I like most about it is how easy it is to extend. In the role I was in last year, I'd have several long-lasting SSH sessions to various hosts. With a very simple bash script I was able to create a prompt in tmux that I could trigger to ask me where I wanted to ssh to. If I already had a connection to that host, it would switch me to that window, if not, it would create a new one and ssh to the host.

I wanted to do that in screen for years, but it just didn't have the features to facilitate it. On top of that I was able to easily re-map all of the keybindings to be just like screen for my muscle memory.

riddley··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
Oh right! I think I have that on a tablet. I was confusing it with the alternative to Android that Google is developing when I asked you about it. Thanks for the info.
riddley··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
What excited you about Graphene?
riddley··on Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
Difficult for whom? Jazz musicians can easily play most Rock songs. Does that mean that they (the songs) lack artistic merit?

There's a million examples like this.

riddley··on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
A nightmare how? When i used their cards, I'd just download the .run and run it. Done.
riddley··on Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
You might want to give browser/platform info.
riddley··on What the internet looked like in 1994
I remember vividly the day "WWW" showed up in the university's Gopher menu. I asked my friend what it was all about and he said, "I looked at it; it sucked."
riddley··on 8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler
Checkmate, athiests.
riddley··on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
I think we can all be happy with the fine that's less than a hundredth of a percent of their annual income that they'll have to pay. Justice is served.
riddley··on De-googling, so far
Nebula drives me insane. I want so much to like it, but the TV app is so terrible. You can follow creators, but it won't show you when they release a new video. Did you have to pause a video and go away for a bit? Well too bad. Unless you search the name or use their bookmark feature, you can't get back to it. There's no way to tell it that it's suggestions aren't interesting. If the thing they've put a huge banner across your screen about is a podcast and not a video, clicking it does nothing. No error, no nothing (again on the TV app.)
riddley··on De-googling, so far
Phones and TVs.
riddley··on De-googling, so far
If only that were true!

Like the OP I consume a ton of YouTube and despite my misgivings about Google, I was a long time subscriber to the YouTube/music combo deal until they started showing ads despite my subscription.

It would happen a few times a week, and if I'm being charitable I could chalk it up to a deployment error, but it happened too many times for me to not get the impression that no one at YouTube gives a shit about subscribers.

riddley··on Use Rails
Doesn't the article say exactly that?
riddley··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
xz is a compression library.
riddley··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
Same thing is happening with Wayland. It reduces features adds complexity and solves no new problems but here it comes.
riddley··on Descent 3 Source Code
I used to work with Jay. He had a consulting gig at my job "for the insurance." Intense dude.
riddley··on Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)
What do you mean by "objects are hashes?"
riddley··on My deployment platform is a shell script
Pro tip: unsetting IFS has the same effect as saving and restoring the old value.
riddley··on My deployment platform is a shell script
Never, ever parse or rely on the output of ls. It's very unpredictable.
riddley··on Show HN: I wrote a book on Kamal, deployment tool that's coming to Rails 8
Not to be confused with the Crystal web framework with a similar name. https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal
riddley··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
From what I've seen they're all controlled by huge tech companies. Hard pass.
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