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  1. @danyspin97 But also agreed on the to-each-their own point. I feel like I've moved *somewhat* far up the power/simplicity curve, but would still be interested in going further. Maybe , maybe , maybe even if I'm feeling bold.

    Something to look forward to, anyway

  2. @redandgreen14 @unicornfarts

    And has been pretty good? I'm thinking about switching to them or for lower prices, but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

  3. @brainblasted There are also several programs that could be helpful. Here's one I've used before (written in Python): github.com/aaronsw/html2text

  4. @alexbuzzbee

    > It gave the answer in seconds.
    I can't find any way to change units.

    Have you tried… division?

  5. @cancel @[email protected] @rnickson

    > I just made a significant new portion/feature of it open source a few hours ago :)

    Two responses: first *thanks very much*!

    It's awesome that you're freeing this library under the GPL. I'll definitely pay for without hesitation when you're ready to ask for money!

    2nd: my concern with ripcord not being has more to do with not loving the idea of communicating using code that I/we can't audit. This library—while super nice!—doesn't address that issue.

  6. Based on recommendations from several of you fine folks, I just tried out , the unofficial /#slack client by @cancel

    I've got to say, from a first impression, I'm *really* impressed! It makes slack and discord way more manageable, while also using far fewer resources than either one alone.

    Shame it's not , though; I'd be much more likely to pay for it if it were. (It is free-as-in-beer though, at least right now)

    cc @[email protected] @rnickson thanks for the tip!

  7. @stsquad

    > those that have not already discovered the delights of are destined to recreate it

    Except that inserting orgmode time stamps with the current time requires an arcane series of keypresses (two prefix arguments (not sure what that means?) plus `<C-c>` followed by `.`

    orgmode.org/manual/Creating-Ti

    In contrast, my vim version involves turning on a specific mode, and then pressing enter

    Really captures the difference! :D

  8. @mwlucas @alexbuzzbee @balrogboogie

    (also, when writing that last toot, I noticed that the hashtag prompts me to autocomplete to . That seems appropriate, somehow.)

  9. It recently came to my attention that has a thriving list but no list at all. This is an outrage that cannot be allowed to stand!

    (Seriously though @[email protected] could you create a vim trunk list and add me to it?)

    (If you're not familiar with Trunk, it's a group of interest-based lists to help new Mastodon users find interesting people to follow: communitywiki.org/trunk)

  10. @brennen Agreed! has a man page—and, yeah, it took about as long to write as the program itself, but it was worth it!

  11. @mike @Qwxlea

    Interesting. I wouldn't say that I live in the shell—rather, I live in the *terminal*. I use zsh commands a lot, of course, but I also write bash, python, or javascript scripts frequently; I don't feel the need to link everything together.

    I wonder if some of this comes from a developer vs. sysadmin use cases. I write a fair bit of bash—including , my most developed project so far—but I don't think I've every written an *inline* script.

    Interesting perspective!

  12. @kev Another language I'd put in the mix for those goals is . It's not quite as versatile as others, but it's still very powerful. It's what and my own are written in, for example. And for simple automation in environment, it really can't be beat.

    Plus, anyone who is comfortable with the command line is halfway to knowing .

    The second half of The Linux Command Line has a great introduction to bash. Plus, it's free under a CC license: linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

  13. Turns out that the top I've used or favorited on Mastodon are:

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    I'm pretty happy with that as a summary of my conversations on here.

    (Thanks to @[email protected] 's useful mastodon-archive tool for generating this info. github.com/kensanata/mastodon-)

  14. @coffee

    Definitely going to be trying this out when I get some time later this afternoon—it sounds very cool!

    (Welcome to the club of members who've worked on companion software to . I didn't expect to have company in that particular club!)

  15. Just how concerned should I be by a message from Gmail saying that someone attempted to reset my password from Texas (no where near where I live)? I've already changed my password ( made it easy to come up with a new one), and I have two-factor authentication enabled. And gmail isn't my primary email, but it's still one I don't want to have compromised.

    I figure it's probably someone with a similar email address miss-typing their address, but wanted to ask how worried I should be.

  16. @alatiera
    I disagree, at least for nouns. Imagine I want to toot about a new version of an open-source project. Which sounds better:

    > I just released v0.5 of , the passphrase generator that follows the philosophy.

    Or:

    > I just released v0.5 of passgen, the passphrase generator that follows the unix philosophy.

    The first clearly and correctly signals that the hashtag is a link to related content; by my lights, it's much better. You disagree?

  17. @tek @_cr0_tab

    (And, if people aren't as comfortable with computers but still take seriously, they might also be interested in the project that inspired , which provides instructions for generating random passphrases by rolling dice. eff.org/dice)

  18. @unicornfarts @Artek I don't really know apg, but from a quick look, I think passwords would be *more* memorable. It's configurable to use any of a bunch of different wordlists, but by default it uses a combined list taken from several lists, so you'd get a password like skirt?UNSTEADY?legend?SUPERJET?livable?DINGBAT?507?

  19. Svelte 3 is out, and it looks really great—they've done a great job building a much lighter weight alternative to !
    svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethi

    Between 3, 10, and (the /WASM alternative to Preact), it's starting to look like a golden age for lightweight front-end web apps.

    …now if only everyone still building bloated apps with Facebook's framework will get the memo :D

    @nolan
    Do you have any thoughts on Svelte 3? I know Pinafore is built with Svelte

  20. @bash

    > If you’re just looking for something to run VNC/RDP/Whatever to another box, I recommend TinyCoreLinux. Provides a minimal GUI and can run in as little as 10MB.

    That *is* what I'm looking for. Why do you recommend over ? I know it's smaller, but the difference of a few MB will *probably* not be the deciding factor for this setup.

  21. has a new digital wellness feature that will remind you of how much time you spend on different apps and nudge you to make better use of your time (if you want it to).

    This is the quintessential modern product. It is:

    * Free-as-in-beer
    * Helpful (solves a real problem)
    * Friendly (good UI/UX)
    * Totally destructive of privacy (it involves tracking how much time you spend on *every* app)

    Google in a nutshell

  22. @andrewebdev @mike

    That is really cool. Thanks for building this, @[email protected]!

    On my home computer, I'm not concerned with someone looking at my screen when it's locked. So I use something similar but without the pixelation: (launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+p).

    (If I were more concerned with visual security, I'd probably go with , but then I like that sort of thing).

  23. @mconley

    Oh, man, they have . Definitely going to have to find some time to check this out!

  24. Anyone have any experience using as a scripting language / alternative?

    I just skimmed their website, and the pitch sounds pretty good. But I'd love to hear from anyone who's tried it

  25. @jiminycricket

    > I've used it! But I rely heavily on which does not work with 🙁

    What doesn't work about it? I read that we extension work with Browsh, but haven't tried any out yet

  26. @kelbot

    Yeah, seemed like something that's your kind crazy :D

    > Have you tried brutaldon.online with it?

    Sort of. It wouldn't log in via the standard oauth method (I couldn't click on the authorize/deny pop-up). I also couldn't log in with pinafore (the "add instance" button also wasn't clickable)

    The vanilla web UI actually did let me log on, but it wasn't quite usable, at least with the default multi-column layout

  27. Have any of you heard of or tried ? It's a full, mouse driven GUI browser---in a terminal!

    The tech is pretty cool too: it renders the page in a headless version of Firefox and converts the rendered page to text. The upshot is that you can run it on a VPS, SSH in from a laptop, and get a GUI browser without paying the privacy/bandwidth/battery costs of running someone else's JS on your personal computer.

    Here's a screenshot:

  28. @danyspin97

    Also, I hadn't checked out your site before. I'm glad you included a link—it looks really interesting.

    I've been meaning to get my dotfiles organized/backed up better; I might give a spin.

  29. @[email protected] @[email protected]

    Oh, man, I wasn't expecting to come up today. My parents programmed it back in the 70s before they left the programming field and got what they thought of as "real" jobs!

  30. CW: Dialup BBSes

    @freakazoid Not really relevant to anything, but that list of dialup BBSes makes 70 requests, including 18 for javascript (!) and loads over 1.1 mb of content. Good luck accessing that with dialup!