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by swalladge 4y ago
> I prefer Github's method of "git commit messages don't matter, pull requests do". This is a bad idea unless it works well for your specific company workflows and you don't care about the future possibility of c
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by swalladge 5y ago
Remind was released in 1996. GPL3 was released in 2007. ;)
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by swalladge 5y ago
I would still argue in these cases that the site shouldn't override the built-in keybinds. Maybe a custom search field/button, and maybe a custom keybind. But when I press Ctrl+F, I always want the same type of search to be ini
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by swalladge 5y ago
> Unfortunately this is broken on the "modern" web as many web pages "helpfully" override the "/" key Argh this kind of thing makes me really cross. So many sites seem to feel the need to reimplement t
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Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020)(blog.frantic.im)
59 points by swalladge 5y ago|47 comments
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by swalladge 5y ago
I've had a draft for a similar post lying around for a long time too - this would be about the word "just". It's used too often to undervalue work (just a hobby project, just a webapp...) or be misleading about the comp
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by swalladge 5y ago
I've been using abook [1], which is very old software but is fast, simple, stores data in plain text, and can export to vcard when needed. [1]: https://abook.sourceforge.io/
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by swalladge 5y ago
I agree. I'm still waiting for completion of the wayland support tracking ticket [1] that was opened a decade ago. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134
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by swalladge 5y ago
Any love for rcm [1]? I settled on this after trying many dotfiles systems - works for me with just the right feature set. I don't often see it mentioned on dotfiles discussions online though. [1]: https://github.com/
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by swalladge 5y ago
Thank you for firejail! I use it to sandbox Zoom, which is one of the few proprietary tools I need to use for work, and it works perfectly.
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by swalladge 5y ago
They actually do have sandboxing which would help. I'm not sure of the full extent though. See: - https://snapcraft.io/docs/security-sandboxing - https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbo
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by swalladge 5y ago
Fugitive + rhurbarb is great! I also use https://github.com/shumphrey/fugitive-gitlab.vim which extends :Gbrowse for gitlab repositories.
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Wayland in 2021(shibumi.dev)
141 points by swalladge 6y ago|142 comments
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Tracking Capital Gains with Hledger(swalladge.net)
2 points by swalladge 6y ago|0 comments
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by swalladge 6y ago
+1 to tmux, or even screen if you can't get tmux installed. It also protects against flaky network connections and accidentally closing the local terminal emulator.
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by swalladge 6y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1545/ (sorry) ;)
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by swalladge 6y ago
As an Australian, it also baffles me. We withdrew 1 and 2 cent coins from circulation in 1992, and prices are simply rounded to the nearest 5c when paying with cash. Maximum 3c difference per transaction, which averages out in the long ru
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by swalladge 6y ago
"Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs" by Aaron Bieber is an interesting talk on switching from vim to emacs + org-mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
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by swalladge 6y ago
> What this author has settled on looks very similar to commonly used tiling window manager shortcuts This is what really intrigued me about the article. Most are about remapping the prefix to something easier to type, or using more intu
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Tmux for Mere Mortals(zserge.com)
586 points by swalladge 6y ago|166 comments
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by swalladge 6y ago
> If something I need is added to Rust 2018 or a later edition, I'll be forced to update or backport. Should add that new editions with breaking changes are only expected to happen rarely (iirc every 3 years), a large difference to
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by swalladge 6y ago
> Wouldn't everyone be better off if that language was Rust itself, and people who don't want to write that "modern code" ... don't? Agreed. The author's whole argument of not wanting "having to make th
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Goodbye PGP(swalladge.net)
1 points by swalladge 7y ago|2 comments
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by swalladge 7y ago
s/latter/former
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by swalladge 7y ago
Yes exactly. I don't recommend nvidia.
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by swalladge 7y ago
> I don't know what it's like on the AMD or Intel side I recently switched to AMD - that, with a compositor (compton/picom), resulted in a super smooth tear-free experience in X for me. My experiences with Intel integrated
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by swalladge 7y ago
Agreed. The extra security given by the latter is a huge win for Wayland, but it needs to be possible to give access when required.
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by swalladge 7y ago
Thanks for these comments! I definitely need to migrate away from NetworkManager; I think you just gave me the motivation to do so. :)
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by swalladge 7y ago
To clarify, it does support nvidia through the open source nouveau drivers. It's only the proprietary drivers that aren't supported.
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by swalladge 7y ago
Resolution: tweaked the font colours to be higher contrast and removed custom absolute font-weights. Please let me know if there are other accessibility issues with the site. :)

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