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In Praise of Aegis Authenticator (and KDE Connect)(agateau.com)
3 points by agateau 4mo ago|0 comments
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by agateau 5mo ago
The code is the present truth, the commit messages can inform you about how it got turned into this truth. Interestingly, I recently wrote a short article about this: https://agateau.com/2026/on-commit-messages/
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by agateau 5mo ago
I wonder if the spare fiber connections could be use to mesh houses together, in a kind-of decentralized way?
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Commit Messages(agateau.com)
2 points by agateau 6mo ago|0 comments
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by agateau 6mo ago
I disagree with this: commit messages should explain the Why. For the What, I can read the diff. Sadly, many commit messages are about the What.
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by agateau 6mo ago
I guess it does not help that I dislike conventional commits :)
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by agateau 6mo ago
Would be curious to know if it works better than writing the Why as human-friendly paragraphs in the body of the commit message.
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by agateau 7mo ago
Most LLM articles depress me. At least this one made me smile, even if it's more about turning a dog into a random generator and generating games from random input.
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by agateau 2y ago
Another one: depending on the language, 0 is either singular or plural. In French it's singular and it's always fun to see the denial in the eyes of my French colleagues when I tell them that 0 is plural in English.
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by agateau 2y ago
> I have a very long regular expression (email validation of course) that doesn't fit on one line but no solutions I have found properly break the lines on page overflow. Have you considered manually splitting the regular expression
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Show HN: Regex Night: regular-expression pretty printer and linter(gitlab.com)
3 points by agateau 2y ago|0 comments
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by agateau 2y ago
Looks handy!
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by agateau 2y ago
I loved my HP 48G when I was in school (even if it was much slower than the Ti 81 it replaced when it came to graphing). I regret throwing it away because of the nostalgia, but I don't feel a need for using it these days. As such I am
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by agateau 3y ago
Sounds like an character from the Asterix comic book :)
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by agateau 3y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a tiny script to install Firefox from their tar.gz, without requiring root access: https://github.com/agateau/tmfi .
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Clyde: A cross-platform package manager for pre-built applications(agateau.com)
4 points by agateau 3y ago|0 comments
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by agateau 3y ago
I would find it easier to read with more sensible, non-abreviated variable names.
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The gentle art of making patches easier to review(agateau.com)
1 points by agateau 3y ago|1 comments
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by agateau 3y ago
A little known fact about executables on Windows is that while it's not possible to remove a running executable, it's possible to rename it. I use this in Clyde [1]: on Windows, when clyde needs to upgrade itself (which means un
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Fairbuds XL Headphones – repairable headphones(shop.fairphone.com)
5 points by agateau 3y ago|0 comments
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by agateau 4y ago
They should draw the complete d-pad and highlight the button to press instead.
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Show HN: Tmfi: The Missing Firefox Installer(github.com)
2 points by agateau 4y ago|0 comments
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by agateau 4y ago
I'd rather not. Never rode one, but I heard bullets are really impractical vehicles. My bike seems much more comfortable.
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by agateau 4y ago
I used to take the subway in Paris. Now I ride a bike, carefully. I don't ignore traffic lights. And even riding this way I am always surprised that I'm faster than the subway. No connections, no wait, arriving directly at the exa
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by agateau 4y ago
I'd prefer a bullet, if it's traveling at 20km/h.
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by agateau 4y ago
I use ripgrep everywhere, not only in my own repositories, so the first approach won't work for me. The second one, on the other hand, sounds like a really good idea, going to look into it, thanks. And of course, thanks for this wonder
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by agateau 4y ago
I love that ripgrep honors .gitignore, but the fact that it skips hidden files is annoying because of questionable decisions from tool makers who insist their configuration files should be hidden files. It is especially infuriating when wor
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by agateau 4y ago
I don't understand why people dislike GNU Info doc. I often do not think about checking them, because `man` is so ingrained in my brain, but when I do I often find them quite good. For example the info page for tar is much more complet
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Show HN: Clyde, package manager for prebuilt applications(github.com)
2 points by agateau 4y ago|0 comments
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by agateau 4y ago
This is the kind of tools I dislike. It does generate a "nice looking changelog", but the result is not as useful as a separately written changelog, because the content is not curated, so the signal-noise ratio can be quite high.

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