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izoow commented on Learn Makefiles makefiletutorial.com/... · Posted by u/dsego

llukas · 9 months ago

This is excellent modern replacement for part where Makefiles get messy: https://github.com/casey/just

izoow · 9 months ago

The main benefit I see with using Make as a command runner is that it's a standard tool that's installed "everywhere". Even though these replacements seem nicer to use, I never felt like they bring enough to the table to warrant having to install an extra tool.

izoow commented on Ask HN: Developer PC setup automations for company owned devices · Posted by u/foxylion

stonemetal12 · 2 years ago

I would take "Now some people ask for an automation to get a "pre-installed" laptop" as a lack of " developers preferences".

Personally I dislike Git, and haven't found a git UI I like, so throw whatever you want on there. I am not going to like it, but not because I want something else.

Since you support a range of OSes I assume you would go with a cross platform editor IntelliJ, VSCode or something. Both are fine, and "something" probably is too.

I like beyond compare enough that I bought a personal license for it.

Give them a 100% works out of the box then they can customize the 1 or 2 things they care about.

izoow · 2 years ago

> Personally I dislike Git, and haven't found a git UI I like, so throw whatever you want on there. I am not going to like it, but not because I want something else.

I might be a bit off topic here, but if you haven't tried Lazygit yet, I can't recommend it enough.

izoow commented on Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted unforget.computing-den.co... · Posted by u/seansh

izoow · 2 years ago

Being similarly frustrated with note taking apps lately (Android), I finally discovered one that's pretty amazing, so I'd like to mention it. It's called Zettel Notes [1]. It's all offline, with support for many syncing options, and the notes are simple markdown files stored in a directory.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.thedoc....

izoow commented on Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator github.com/alacritty/alac... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

izoow · 2 years ago

I've been using Konsole and I only relatively recently found out how powerful its tab/split management is. You can drag and drop tabs between different windows, and you can drag and drop panes between different tabs to create splits, which also works even between tabs in different windows.

izoow commented on Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/claviska

izoow · 2 years ago

I wish the bug where the copy option is randomly greyed out even though there is text to copy got finally fixed. It's been driving me insane.

izoow commented on · Posted by u/seungwoolee518

izoow · 2 years ago

I haven't noticed any change just now, but Google search results felt pretty bad for me for a while, even for technical questions. I tried replacing a lot of my searches with ChatGPT, but I got tired of the false information it hallucinates pretty fast. I'm at a point where I'm considering giving Kagi a try and actually paying a subscription for my searches.

izoow commented on Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C hereket.com/posts/from-sc... · Posted by u/libcheet

hiccuphippo · 2 years ago

Related, a talk about replacing Xlib with their own abstraction with zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPWFLkHRIAQ

izoow · 2 years ago

Was just about to mention this. Also, just to add to this, even though it's a zig talk, it's not really the main focus of the talk. I enjoyed it and I don't even know zig.

izoow commented on Cmkr – a modern build system based on CMake and TOML github.com/build-cpp/cmkr... · Posted by u/gjvc

izoow · 2 years ago

A build generator for a build generator? Oh boy. This is starting to feel like the JavaScript ecosystem.

izoow commented on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat releases.ubuntu.com/noble... · Posted by u/jeswin

jijijijij · 2 years ago

Give Fedora a try! If you already know a bit about Linux configuration and are not afraid of the terminal, as it's a tiny bit more hands on and blank than Ubuntu.

I switched about two years ago and it's the best Linux experience I've ever had and I do regret not trying sooner. No bloat at all. DNF is awesome. Flatpak > snap. The release cycle is a nice compromise. Really, I am in fucking love!

izoow · 2 years ago

I did try it a couple times in the past, it just never quite felt like home. I don't know why, I couldn't give you an objective reason as to why I didn't like it. I probably should give it another try soon.

izoow commented on Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines? · Posted by u/bjackman

izoow · 2 years ago

I rely on an unlimited bash history and fzf to fuzzy search through it. Commands that get too long and complicated might get thrown into a simple bash script, often quite literally "thrown" as a single line without any cleanup or extra logic.

I've tried making pretty scripts with many options, but as you said, then you just end up with another tool with many complicated options, not to mention the time it takes. I noticed that the quick and dirty scripts that I often just copy paste and tweak if I want to get a different functionality get by far the most use and survive the longest.

I've also been meaning to have a look at invoke[1] which seemed interesting, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

[1] https://www.pyinvoke.org/

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