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I am currently evaluating paperless-ngx so the stuff I need for my income tax return is in a place where I find it without grepping old e-mails and banking reports. Once you find a working combinatio...

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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09-01-2024, 08:14 AM

Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs

Thank you for this, neeasade.

jkl

Programming On Unix

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09-11-2023, 10:54 PM

Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter

The current newsletter suggests to use a text editor for writing stuff on the web. Yes, but why not both? https://ghosttext.fregante.com/ Works even with Acme!

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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27-10-2023, 08:21 AM

Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt

The website is much more readable when used in Emacs. I hope it will remain to be supported.

jkl

Off topic

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19-10-2023, 01:43 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I’m working on my second GNU Emacs package, an “open the whisky under the cursor on Whiskybase.com” function. Turns out that thing-at-point is a both handy and very confusing function. edit: I'm pret...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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06-10-2023, 08:43 AM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

Ah, it's already out? Good to know!

jkl

Programming On Unix

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29-09-2023, 09:13 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

AppleTalk's auto-configuration features mostly live on in Bonjour, (GUI) scripting is preferably done with the Automator and Apple's own AppleScript (that resembles Smalltalk): https://en.wikipedia.or...

jkl

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18-09-2023, 04:30 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

I know that this might sound heretic, especially on Nixers, but the best possible way to do actual work in a non-emergency situation is not the CLI. This is not related to the inadequacy of the surrou...

jkl

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13-09-2023, 06:18 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

Graphically? Do you need more pictures?

jkl

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13-09-2023, 11:35 AM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

Ah. Why do you use boring software? ;-)

jkl

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09-09-2023, 01:52 PM

Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

Current state: Input for sans-serif, Hack for monospace, Garamond for serif.

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

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04-09-2023, 02:49 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

bash is not a standard.

jkl

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04-09-2023, 02:46 PM

Thread: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
Post: RE: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc

(02-09-2023, 01:33 PM)adi Wrote: I'm in the process of renaming ~/Downloads to ~/dl Why?

jkl

Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related

2,775

02-09-2023, 04:03 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

As using the WordPress editor is a horrible thing to do, I am currently working on my first parser/lexer project, a WordStar (WordTsar) to Markdown converter. Goal: to be able to use a good word proce...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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21-08-2023, 05:05 AM

Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"

In case any of you are very bored: a few hours ago I came across MIT TECO EMACS version 170. Over 7 megabytes in size!

jkl

Old school stuff

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17-08-2023, 10:41 PM

Thread: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
Post: RE: RIP, Bram Moolenaar

That solves the Emacs vs. Vim war. All of Emacs's "founders" are still alive. ;-) Seriously though, Vim will probably survive. chrisbra and/or k-takata are most likely to just take over leadership du...

jkl

Off topic

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08-08-2023, 05:56 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I wrote a license: https://paste2.org/WktV4zaN Modified ISC, inspired by this: https://sy.nthia.dev/objects/85eddcf7-c7...d4067d9ad4 Quote:software license where you're not allowed to attribute the ...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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03-08-2023, 10:25 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

You don't need to use the same interactive shell as you use for your scripts. Never had, never will.

jkl

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12-06-2023, 05:30 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

As I (personally) use Fahrenheit, but Germany is mostly a Celsius country, I rewrote my Celsius<->Fahrenheit converter for PowerShell in a portable language: COBOL. https://code.rosaelefanten.o...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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12-06-2023, 11:44 AM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

rc seems to get rid of autotools and no longer has the history only as an optional feature. Good. https://github.com/rakitzis/rc/commit/0e...3110fdec57

jkl

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11-06-2023, 08:57 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

At work, I have the recurring task of keeping an inventory of all software installed on company computers. I’m writing a desktop application to generate CSVs for that, so everyone stops sending me scr...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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24-05-2023, 12:45 PM

Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction

Welcome, Kohaku!

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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16-05-2023, 08:00 AM

Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction

Ahoy nrmc, life still exists.

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

5,502

05-05-2023, 09:34 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

9term is a rather good idea which I did not have myself, thank you. :) rlwrap would probably work too. I'll see what I can do with it... edit: Quote:rlwrap: warning: rlwrap appears to do nothing for...

jkl

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07-04-2023, 07:57 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

Sadly, on macOS's Homebrew, rc comes without readline. I don't really want to install pkgsrc on this computer just to have that. I wonder if there is an easy fix.

jkl

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27-03-2023, 06:35 PM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

Quite close. “Serverless” roughly equals “having an uncertain number of unknown servers”.

jkl

Off topic

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11-01-2023, 11:14 AM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

(29-12-2022, 01:21 AM)pizzaroll1 Wrote: A real failure of terminology. Have you heard the word “serverless” yet?

jkl

Off topic

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29-12-2022, 05:54 AM

Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords

“CI”/“CD” is an empty phrase that is usually used to tell people that your code is compiled on a server instead of your computer.

jkl

Off topic

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15-11-2022, 03:49 AM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

According to a number of GitHub tickets, the gopass developers plan to have full repository encryption with the “age” backend that might eventually replace GPG. Once implemented, I may switch over.

jkl

Security & Cryptography

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09-11-2022, 09:20 AM

Thread: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code
Post: RE: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing yo...

It will also be an interesting case considering the future of "Fair Use" which doesn't exist in wide parts of the world, but Microsoft GitHub's lawyers claim that (e.g.) my code on GitHub is freely ac...

jkl

Off topic

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03-11-2022, 07:01 PM

Thread: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code
Post: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your c...

Good news, everyone: Quote:Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. (...) By train...

jkl

Off topic

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03-11-2022, 06:10 PM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

(07-10-2022, 10:52 AM)venam Wrote: This one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ? That one. :)

jkl

Security & Cryptography

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11-10-2022, 01:55 PM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

I gave gopass a(nother) serious try this week, but the fact that its files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red flag for me. If anyone gains access to my ha...

jkl

Security & Cryptography

52,938

06-10-2022, 12:55 PM

Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?

(02-10-2022, 01:54 PM)venam Wrote: That's a lot of languages. Not really, unless you’re from the US where even a second language is a lot. :-p

jkl

Off topic

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06-10-2022, 12:50 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

I use the rc with readline port, not the p9p version. Maybe it works differently. (I sometimes use p9p because it has Sam and Acme, but most of the systems on which I want to use rc don’t even have a ...

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16-09-2022, 11:57 AM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(03-06-2020, 01:44 AM)jkl Wrote: rc is quite awesome on Plan 9 because all of its history commands are meant to be used with mouse chords. But I couldn’t even modify its prompt easily. FWIW, I found...

jkl

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12-09-2022, 12:34 PM

Thread: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool
Post: RE: CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool

After all, obscure computer utilities are an interesting hobby. ;-) Thank you.

jkl

Old school stuff

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12-09-2022, 12:05 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

Well, at least I hope that someone finds a use for it. :) edit: Redbean - https://redbean.dev - is a similar project indeed. It does not seem to support asset conversion (like zb does), but it is a c...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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30-04-2022, 12:06 AM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

Ted Unangst wrote that creating a self-contained website in Go does not work well because Go has broken support for zip files. I still found the concept interesting, so I wrote one in Rust instead. h...

jkl

Programming On Unix

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29-04-2022, 12:27 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(15-11-2020, 09:40 PM)mattrose Wrote: I am desparately trying to get used to zsh after macos stopped shipping recent versions of bash. macOS also has the tcsh. :)

jkl

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27-04-2022, 05:02 AM

Thread: Syntax help error
Post: Syntax help error

i noticed that the nixers syntax help is incorrect: Code:[size=3]This text is size 3[/size] This should, according to the help, produce quite readable text. It does not: "3" seems to be "3pt".

jkl

Community & Forums Related Discussions

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11-03-2022, 10:39 AM

Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands

Just in case anyone wonders, this command works on macOS (with the tcsh): Code:% history | awk '{print substr($0,index($0,$3))}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 (I won't post my ...

jkl

Desktop Customization & Workflow

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