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vanous··on Tty7 – terminal with persistent sessions, remote work, mobile link
I discovered tty7 (only) today (it has 1400 GH stars). I like it - seems fast and themable. The persistence is nice, plus i also like the mobile companion... interesting.
vanous··on Ghostty 1.4
Thanks for tty7 info. After adjusting the color config, I like it - the terminal persistence and also the mobile app link.
vanous··on Iroh 1.0
It would be great if there were applications with support, like nextcloud and it's clients, client for talk and so on.
vanous··on Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
Same here... I have been looking at all the self hosting options for a while but swapping one centralized system for another isn't what I would prefer. Running/using local and community gitea/forgejo has been good, but I hope decentralized radicle could be the solution to more independence.
vanous··on Glyph Protocol for Terminals
This is much needed, thanks!
vanous··on OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
Looks great. Not FLOSS.
vanous··on Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer
> error-prone to set a 30-second timer. Oops, I’m tired and I hit zero too many times. That’s a 3-minute (3:00) timer. I typed in 3-0 correctly, but hitting the start button didn’t quite register. Siri misheard. Siri took 10 seconds to respond about a 30 second timer.

I get the diy factor, but still, the smartphone was supposed to be smart...

vanous··on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
@Zigtools:

Thank you for your educative post, letting the community know.

Don't let it to drag you down in any way. This is emotionally draining and takes away motivation, but keep going.

vanous··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
I love using uv and would be supper happy if it allowed me not only to add and remove

uv add package

uv remove package

But also to upgrade a package and upgrade all packages in the pyproject.toml . The uv sync --upgrade can already do this in uv.lock , but not in pyproject.toml

vanous··on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
Do note that mapy.cz is not open source and that they started moving more and more features into their subscription based paid offering... The beginning of enshittification.
vanous··on Vim Macros for Beancount
Glad you find it useful. Below is an example script to demonstrate the concept. It is awesomely powerful. In vim, select some text and do this:

  :'<,'>! ./example.py

  #!/bin/env python3
  #:'<,'>! ./example.py # ← this is how to use it
  import sys
  data = sys.stdin.readlines()
  for l in data:
    l = l.replace("a", "e").rstrip()
    print(l)
vanous··on Vim Macros for Beancount
Very cool! A while ago i did something similar and tried to learn vim more in depth by creating some more complex macros - several of them, to convert some text snippets into markdown. Problem was, that several months later i could not exactly remember some details of these "reusable" macros - where exactly to place cursor when starting them, the order of execution and so on. Thankfully, vim has the amazing ability to run commands/script on text selection, so i rewrote my macros in a scripting language. It has several bonus points: i can store them in git and track changes, code can be self-documented via comments. My macros were not too complex, but still, using a proper scripting ended up being much better.
vanous··on Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs
Dash doesn't seem to be open source, plus it's a subscription model. Nothing against that, but OPs solution is MIT licensed.
vanous··on Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr
Nice effort!

All these tools teach typing and looking at the typed text. Only few programs make physical separation between the source and the typed text or do hide the text currently typed. Try it... yet another level... :)

vanous··on Learn touch typing – it's worth it
Agree. I wish the school system wouldn't ignore it as it does in many places.

Even with touch devices, to gain productivity, i see people to switch to keyboard input because pen or touch aren't fast enough and voice typing isn't possible for example in auditoriums.

But, don't learn to type quicker, learn to type precisely. Speed will come.

vanous··on Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts
Absolutely. https://ublockorigin.com/
vanous··on How to help us build open source Pebble software
Long battery life

Apps/watchfaces SDK and app store

Smart replies (i.e. reply to sms)

Display visibility outside

vanous··on Beej's Guide to Git
> GitHub is a web-based front-end to Git.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

208 mentions of GitHub.

4 mentions of Gitea.

3 mentions of GitLab.

Why is it so biased and why is it helping to continue to teach people to centralized git.

vanous··on Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
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vanous··on Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
Interestingly enough, searching for ě on the page finds the ĕ as well, but so does search for e...
vanous··on Kokoro TTS – A lightweight (82M params) text-to-speech model
And it's not offline.
vanous··on I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
A while back nobody would believe that Google's search dominance could be disturbed... and now many have either switched away or stopped using search altogether. It takes me two clicks to set a search to DDG, Kagi or other and Google has lost this customer (often a family) forever.

So let them be arrogant and loose their YouTube customers over time too.

vanous··on Pyodide 0.27 Release
Pyodide (a port of CPython to WebAssembly/Emscripten) is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.

Pyodide makes it possible to install and run Python packages in the browser with micropip.

Version 0.27 brings: improvements to the longterm future of Pyodide, speedups, more packages, decoupling of the build system and more.

vanous··on SQLite Rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool for SQLite
Thank you very much.

It would be useful to have dates for created and for edited on the articles. With the huge scope of the SQLite project, I have no idea whether this is historical, current, or upcoming.

vanous··on 'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
Interesting. On the funny side, glad to hear there are more then 100 of these companies because workers in these companies probably need to ask a competition to hand their resignation letter.
vanous··on PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL
It's a good start, and please do more... Even small QOL improvements like tab completion for filenames are important and is what makes me to install ipython at this point.
vanous··on Terminal Colours Are Tricky
Glad to see someone else to use solarized light in terminal. I have this in terminal, vim, mc... custom tweaked and I love it.
vanous··on Python in Excel – Available Now
It doesn't run locally, but rather uses Azure cloud.

For local python in a spreadsheet, LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443012

vanous··on Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller
Next thing we will see is a roll of 1000 sheets... Just really tiny ones...
vanous··on Slackdump
You have full source code available to inspect and modify. Are you from Slack?
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