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by da_rob 3mo ago
> I still miss the ability to "Reveal Codes" and see exactly where it had placed the non-printing codes to turn on/off bold, italics, to change margins, etc. [...] Not a full replacement for WordPerfect, but Pure has &quot
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by da_rob 5mo ago
Well-written article! I wish there was some kind of standard to tell CLI apps what features to expect from the system pager, so they can act accordingly … Right now, apps can talk to the terminal to check for feature support, but all of tha
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by da_rob 5mo ago
Yes, there is imgap: https://github.com/roblillack/imgap You can use it to create delta images for git diff but also to interactively compare changes via git difftool.
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by da_rob 7mo ago
Wow, this project (and actually the whole thread here) is awesome. Love it! Our (iPad-based) kitchen timetable[1] is nothing compared to the work (and money) Joel sank into this. If someone wants to go the easy route towards something like
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I Accidentally Built a Web Browser(roblillack.net)
2 points by da_rob 10mo ago|0 comments
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by da_rob 2y ago
It’s not PIC and not really suitable for complex diagrams, yet, but you can use Vizzlo’s Chart Vizzard to create a subset of the supported chart types (let’s say a Gantt) and then continue editing it using the chart editor: https:/&#x
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by da_rob 2y ago
Author posted a screenshot here: https://bsky.app/profile/zaphar.bsky.social/post/3lc67gecky2...
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TUI spreadsheet app in Rust based on IronCalc engine(github.com)
15 points by da_rob 2y ago|4 comments
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by da_rob 2y ago
OpenBSD support is quite a bit further: https://roblillack.net/openbsd-arm64-on-the-thinkpad-t14s
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by da_rob 2y ago
IIRC it's the Calculator. :(
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by da_rob 2y ago
> On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows. https://www.threads.net/@roblillack/post/DBYOuivOPFV
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by da_rob 2y ago
That did the trick, thank you!
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by da_rob 2y ago
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/hoOlRDy Happy that this will finally be a feature of FF. Still pretty useless for me, though, for these reasons: - There's an empty tab bar shown at the top of the window. - Currently, the
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by da_rob 2y ago
Went through the list, all listed services are SaaS apps. :( Granted, most of them are self-hosted (not all!), but this list needs to be called norecurringfee.com ….
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by da_rob 2y ago
Geez, look at the build instructions! It all went downhill when they switched from Motif to GTK.
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by da_rob 2y ago
The virtual component tree is needed as there is no 1:1 mapping of components to widgets. Using the virtual tree, you are able to build components which dynamically change the rendered subtree based on the current state.
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by da_rob 2y ago
Perfect use-case, IMHO! Looking forward to hear your thoughts ocne you tried it.
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by da_rob 2y ago
For complex scenarios (i.e. the user interacting with the UI while there are some long-running processes in the backround doing this, too), managing the state quickly gets unwiedly: You need to write callback code everywhere that carefully
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by da_rob 2y ago
Given the right C compiler and everything, Spot should work without changes on Windows (and select the FLTK) backend. My (low prio, though) goal is to implement a Win32-based backend, though, the first step is done: https://githu
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by da_rob 2y ago
Big fan of WxWindows, I'm just too invested into Go these days. :) Self-contained Spot "Hello World" is 2.3MiB on my Mac. Not pretty, but works for me.
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by da_rob 2y ago
No, it just means that the main goroutine should not be moved onto another OS thread to ensure that it is always the same OS thread which will run UI updates. This is necessary for most UI libraries and in Spot's case implemented for b
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by da_rob 2y ago
The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating systems, signing/notarization tools, etc. :(
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by da_rob 2y ago
While I agree, that the virtual widget tree has a certain overhead, the typical desktop app you would create with Spot probably does not have 1000s of components—more like ten to twenty probably. Compare that to the immediate mode GUIs that
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Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go(github.com)
309 points by da_rob 2y ago|57 comments
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by da_rob 3y ago
The possibility to use dprint plugins (Dockerfile, TOML, Markdown, custom ones) would be awesome.
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by da_rob 3y ago
Congrats to the team, the rebrand was overdue! I'd love to see some kind of collaboration or interoperability with dprint in the future.
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by da_rob 4y ago
I seem to be the last remaining user of Foursquare/Swarm in my city and really miss this openly crowdsourced approach to curating places. Yelp/Google Maps/TripAdvisor just feels too "commercial" for me. Official ann
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GoWalla location tracking app returns(gowalla.framer.website)
2 points by da_rob 4y ago|1 comments
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by da_rob 4y ago
Built something like this a few years ago: https://github.com/roblillack/vim-bufferlist
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by da_rob 5y ago
True. I think the issue was that there was lots of uncertainty for people that actually want to keep their Google account for Google Photos other other products and that do not care for the custom domain (anymore). The official wording befo

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