This comment 😂❤️

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220443#30223181

"Third, FOSS has become a religion for many. All things must be FOSS because it’s a holy conquest, and if just everything were FOSS all would be perfection because reasons."

If FOSS were actually a religion, the holy conquest you describe would be the most adorable and least bloody holy conquest in the history civilization.

If FOSS were actually a religion, then what is stopping you from joining the least bloody and most adorable religion in the history of civilization?

Come.

Join us.

(Patches accepted.)

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Zettelkasten

https://github.com/drcode/zek is a neat program <3 and its demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_m176PIdU is inspiring me.. to build my own version 🤦

I think people have lost sight of the essence of Zettelkasten.

• never having to name notes
• extremely fine-grained addressing
• lots of nudges to create cross-links

The tension: links tend to require names.

Any interest in collaborating on or use-testing something malleable but text-only in Teliva?

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New data on an old, boring subject from someone without an axe to grind

I just tracked down my umpteenth memory corruption bug in Teliva: https://github.com/antirez/kilo/pull/81

I'm pretty sure this was the one that got me to lose data on several days of Advent of Code 2021.

The number of such bugs found in this tiny codebase (https://github.com/antirez/kilo/search?q=memory is not comprehensive) is a huge case against C. I'm not out of practice, I'm just only able to manage memory reliably in C++, for all that I dislike it.

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There's been some bug going around. I spent the last few days thinking Teliva sucked. This morning I think it's cool again.

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I'm giving a talk at FOSDEM next week: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing

There's Q&A and IM chat after.

I hope you will add it to your calendar! (The times given are in UTC+1. It's 8:40am in PST.)

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#$@$, this list of terminal escape sequences is terrifying.

https://terminalguide.namepad.de/seq

Luckily the one to read clipboard is disabled by default: https://terminalguide.namepad.de/seq/osc-52

If enabled, any terminal program can read your clipboard just by printing a few characters to stdout. https://github.com/akkartik/teliva has no hope of sandboxing that.

Hopefully there isn't any worse crap lurking in this list. No "this escape sequence runs the command you provide". That I can spot, at least..

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The opposite of Literate Programming

Instead of a linear tour through every last detail in just the right order, a frontpage for any app with a quick orientation of the global structure (like a Readme with crappy typography but consistent navigation compared to the usual development environment), after which the reader is free to jump non-linearly anywhere they like.

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

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Firefox will die one day. Then Chrome will "dance down amongst us again, clad in his true shape at last, singing his incomprehensible rhymes as the trees mutter their curses and the black and terrible Barrow-Wights dance and gibber around him."

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Midnight browsing: Lua and text editors

https://repo.or.cz/?a=project_list;o=age;t=lua

https://repo.or.cz/ta-parkour.git

https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept -- tiniest src/ directory ever

textadept on HN search

a review of textadept (2012)

https://scintilla.org -- never submitted to HN!

https://github.com/howl-editor/howl

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Procrastinating on 2022 talk by rewatching 2020 talk

https://vimeo.com/416363066

My delivery was absolutely terrible. It was probably not obvious to anyone how the talk mapped to the paper http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf. Watch it more for the great questions starting at 20 minutes.

Now I wonder what questions permacomputing people would have about it.

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