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by alexdme 1y ago
I also used to use git-annex on my photos, ended up getting frustrated with how slow it was and wrote aegis[1] to solve my use case. I wrote a bit about why in the readme (see archiving vs backup). In my opinion, syncing, snapshots, and b
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by alexdme 3y ago
Thanks for the link! Yeah editorconfig is definitely a move in the right direction, but there are still the problem with LSP mentioned in the blog post which editorconfig does not address - Many language servers take in project-specific con
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Taking the Language Server Protocol one step further(garnix.io)
4 points by alexdme 3y ago|3 comments
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by alexdme 4y ago
In this file `~` is meta (option key on macs). Not sure why it's not escape like it is in emacs.
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by alexdme 4y ago
Ugh this destroyed my productivity too for a while. I even wrote an entire blog post about my woes and different experiments to get back to getting consistent shortcuts across terminal and GUI apps here: https://alexdav.id/2
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by alexdme 6y ago
Good points. For the record I wasn't trying to say that github1s is "ruining free computing", I was trying to convey the opposite. More diversity is good. If this had been published first, and github1s came along afterward to
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by alexdme 6y ago
Apple's touchpad works natively out of the box on Linux and has for many years. I use a magic touchpad 2 on Archlinux for my daily driver.
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by alexdme 6y ago
I like that this doesn't assume what editor and git remote someone uses unlike github1s which is further pushing the development community toward centralizing on Github+VScode. Diversity is good. You inspired me to write my own. Here i
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by alexdme 8y ago
There is an easy fix for this: Set layers.acceleration.force-enabled: true in about:config. I believe this is because Firefox assumes it's the responsibility of the compositor you are running to properly vsync, but if you're not r
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by alexdme 10y ago
After logging in you should be able to spin up a session in less than a second by clicking "quickstart". After that, you can share the URL with anyone you want to have join the session and they can watch and collaborate in your se
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by alexdme 10y ago
The containers are powered by docker, and all of our pre-built docker images come with git pre-installed. You have root on the machines so you can use a package manager to install any packages you feel are missing (the pre-built docker imag
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by alexdme 10y ago
The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you can in the editor. But you can also enable vim mode
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by alexdme 10y ago
PairForce was initially created because I wanted to give test driven development interviews for remote candidates, but I quickly started using my prototype for mentoring junior engineers and pair programming. I was frustrated with existing
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Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker(pairforce.io)
24 points by alexdme 10y ago|12 comments
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by alexdme 10y ago
And further shorten that to echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm citOK I Will'