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LaxisB commented on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator ghostty.org/docs... · Posted by u/oli5679

hesdeadjim · 12 days ago

Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art, sound, you name it.

I’ve been trying to figure out how I could actually help him distribute it and I keep coming back to the best option being to wrap his programs terminal output into a host process that can emulate and render it. It seems that the lib Ghostty might be perfect for the former, but not quite yet on the latter?

LaxisB · 12 days ago

somehwere else in this thread this project was mentioned (uses libghostty): https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

that might be a viable approach for you

LaxisB commented on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/mikece

BoredPositron · 6 months ago

You can't perform all the usual tasks with it; it's a limited, immutable Arch derivative.

Edit: Not arch but fedora.

LaxisB · 6 months ago

you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others

LaxisB commented on Modern Datahand-style keyboard with trackball and trackpoint svalboard.com/... · Posted by u/morganvenable

JojoFatsani · 2 years ago

I wouldn’t mind buying a lefty one only for gaming purposes, if it was about $700 cheaper

LaxisB · 2 years ago

There's a similar keeb, that released a couple years ago and is a fair bit cheaper (although still not /cheap/): https://www.azeron.eu/.

I can't speak about its quality as I'm not a user, but it might be of interest to you

LaxisB commented on Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob

canjobear · 6 years ago

The domain name is a clue

LaxisB · 6 years ago

my first reaction was to assume kafka-the-technology exectly because of the domain name. Then i realized that the one i meant was the "New York Times", and not the "New Yorker". NYT is one of the case studies from a kafka provider [0] skimming is a double-edged sword

[0]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-yo...

LaxisB commented on Text Editing Hates You Too lord.io/blog/2019/text-ed... · Posted by u/panic

kstenerud · 6 years ago

It happens to my wife's German USB keyboard in Windows 10. One day it's working fine, the next day pressing Z outputs a Y and Ä outputs a semicolon. I've had tons of problems with Japanese input in Linux and Mac (but not in Windows).

Multilanguage support is a function of how many customers demand it, and aside from English and Japanese, there hasn't been enough economic incentive to take it seriously.

LaxisB · 6 years ago

the windows issue might also be caused by accidentally pressing the hotkey (alt+shift i believe) to switch layouts. it's super easy to mis-trigger

LaxisB commented on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? · Posted by u/livingpunchbag

tmaly · 8 years ago

Is there a wild card feature to capture any address on a domain? I currently have multiple email addresses for a single domain. If I moved the email to fastmail, would I have to pay for each individual email on that domain?

LaxisB · 8 years ago

i set this up for my fastmail account a couple weeks ago. go to settings -> aliases and create an alias for *

this also allows you to write from any email address in your domain (when composing, change the sender dropdown to your *-alias, and the 'from' line appears and is editable

LaxisB commented on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 medium.com/@jjperezaguina... · Posted by u/jjperezaguinaga

Fuzzwah · 9 years ago

I'm a content guy who knows enough web dev to be dangerous.

I made 3 manual edits to a css file to fix a couple of incorrect background colours in our web content the other day. I was a good boy and made a pull request for those same changes in the git repo.

Our developer explained that he doesn't actually edit the css file. He would have to work out the change in the hue (as a percent of the base colour) and update that in the sass file, then use gulp to compile a fresh version of the output css.

He said that this was a simple build process to get set up on my machine so I could do it myself in the future.

He uses a mac. I use windows.

4 hours later after hitting so many hurdles I finally got it working. I can't even recall all the issues, but do recall that I side stepped them all by moving to a particular version of npm which actually used a sane system for storing the dependencies.

With out that version of npm this simple build process required 15,000 files in my node_modules subdirectory in a structure so deep and convoluted Windows couldn't create them....

Of course now that I'm armed with the toolset to make these changes I've reverted to testing changes in chrome dev tools and emailing him requests.

LaxisB · 9 years ago

a big problem with npm is, that a lot of package authors don't use the .npmignore [0] which leads to EVERYONE downloading your source/, test/ and docs/ folder even if only that one file in build/ is needed. That, combined with the micromodule mindset, leads to insanity

[0]: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/developers#keeping-files-out-of-...