Notices by brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)

new tiny computer day

(cc: @mntmn, @liaizon)

@ajroach42 you know if you go to shenzhen or akihabara there have to be a lot of fascinating trash gadgets floating around, but yeah, i tell you what, the general stream of computer nonsense has gotten so... normie, i guess?

@ajroach42 every laptop the same mediocre slab, every phone the same glass rectangle, everything that is not a laptop or a phone... well, where *did* that stuff go?

@joeyh @alcinnz the thing about popcon is it's limited in scope, i know what the data is for, and i have a degree of confidence that users of the project would flip shit if it became opt out. i can think of almost nothing else that meets these criteria and i'm leery of the thin end of the wedge here. some slopes really are pretty slippery.

some things i've enjoyed or appreciated in the last year:

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf — fuzzy finder that takes lines of input and lets you select 1 or more. comes with shell & vim integration. sounds trivial, turns out to be a beautiful general purpose build-your-own-UI toolkit.

https://sqlitebrowser.org/ — friendly little gui shell for a db format that lives everywhere.

https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale - async linting in vim. instant feedback on syntax errors etc.

(1/n)

https://the.exa.website/ - ls but with pretty colors and git status.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/ - make a little yaml file and spin up a miniature environment of containers. maybe the only part of the docker ecosystem i _don't_ hate.

https://www.ventusky.com/ - my go-to for weather viz. just really pretty, good at wind & temp.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ - just how dry _is_ it in the US?

https://github.com/wikimedia/WhoWroteThat - show authorship info directly in Wikipedia articles.

(2/n)

https://www.visidata.org/ — make quick work of viewing & slicing tabular data like csv/tsv, but also stuff like json, yaml, sqlite, xls, html tables, …

https://github.com/franrogers/orrery — a fun little display of planets in the terminal.

https://tildegit.org/akkartik/calpick — a cal(1) fork that spits out a selected date, courtesy @akkartik

https://k9scli.io/ — a super-helpful TUI for dealing with kubernetes stuff.

https://regex101.com/ — helpful when you have 2 problems.

(3/3)

addendum to this thread: i'd love to know what pops into other folks' heads for a list like this.

@pixouls the whole problem set of calendaring is perpetually infuriating, and i have mostly avoided getting drawn into endless cycles of yak shaving around it by just kind of throwing up my hands in despair and only occasionally knowing when things are happening.

(the most reliable calendar technologies in my life are a printout we pin to the back door and a tab-delimited text file in calendar(1) format that tells me birthdays and anniversaries.)