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by xavdid 1y ago
I've been a happy starship user for a few years at this point (after a long time with oh-my-zsh). For me, it's killer feature is the `starship.toml` file. Gone are the days of arcane bash escape sequences to style the prompt. It&#
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by xavdid 1y ago
It works occasionally, but unpredictably. Consistently frustrating though
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by xavdid 1y ago
I have no idea, but it's a constant source of frustration. Sunglasses also lead to failed reads, which makes a little more sense but is just as frustrating. "Here's a new phone. It works great except you can't use it qui
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by xavdid 1y ago
> I honestly don't get why people like Face ID more Big +1. Face ID fails way more than Touch ID ever did. I know you couldn't your finger with wet hands or gloves, but that didn't come up all that much. Face ID fails mu
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by xavdid 2y ago
> disclosure timeline (mm/dd/yyyy) > 09/03/2025 - vulnerability disclosed a security vulnerability and time travel to go with it!
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by xavdid 2y ago
It's great to see them coming back! I adored my Pebble(s). 2 fun stories: 1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your ph
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by xavdid 2y ago
Whoa, I loved that app! I used to track scores for intramural games in college. the UI was so clean and simple!
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by xavdid 2y ago
Bluesky supports them! If you append `/rss` to any profile, it redirects to a feed. e.g.: https://bsky.app/profile/xavd.id -> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fp2izjrrcsbsqphlu7f5sixa/
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by xavdid 2y ago
I'm excited about this! I'll be sticking to Python so I can practice writing maintainable code. I'm also looking forward to keeping up with my explanations of each puzzle, which helps me (and others!) learn a lot. Everything
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by xavdid 2y ago
The word "tweet" itself came from a 3rd party developer: > The Iconfactory was developing a Twitter application in 2006 called "Twitterrific" and developer Craig Hockenberry began a search for a shorter way to refer t
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by xavdid 2y ago
He's done a lot of great work. Selfishly, one of my favorites is narrating the University of Michigan (his alma mater) football hype videos and stadium announcements. Always felt unique and fun. https://www.youtube.com/
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by xavdid 2y ago
> Mail and Notifications will show summaries instead of str[:x] While it's true that the first x characters of an email don't always have the most important bits, they're never _wrong_. It's always exactly what's
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by xavdid 2y ago
Exercism is a great site and I'll be sad if it goes away entirely. It's a really wonderful service and community. I used it [throughout 2023]( https://xavd.id/blog/post/12-languages-in-12-months/ ) to
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by xavdid 2y ago
There's not really more info on desktop. That said, it links to https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-new which has some context
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by xavdid 2y ago
That's fascinating! I mostly don't use "sign in with X" anymore since my password manager flow is pretty fluid at this point (so making a password is easy and secure). I guess for the many people who are less comfortable
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by xavdid 2y ago
That's true, I've heard good things! I don't use Jetbrains products, but I'm glad they work well here.
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by xavdid 2y ago
I mean, I was trying to set up editor support for a Ruby script last week. So unless it was improved really recently, it's not where I'd like it to be.
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by xavdid 2y ago
Ruby's a great language- I've always enjoyed its ergonomics and clarity. But its editor tooling hasn't kept up with its one-time competitor, Python. I've mostly been in the Python ecosystem for the past few years and the
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by xavdid 3y ago
I've always found this to be a very useful practice. Many projects have a few core files (or packages / modules / whatever) where most of the changes happen. Being able to familiarize new contributors (or old returning ones)
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by xavdid 3y ago
> PEP should really highlight a `Python-Version` field for accepted proposals if the target version has been already released. I've got some great news: https://cdn.zappy.app/339d2e16228a195e5149cdcf05edd572.png
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by xavdid 3y ago
big +1. I see the appeal of writing things directly in the shell, but as soon as you have conditional logic it's time for Python/JS/anything else.
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by xavdid 3y ago
TIL about zx! https://github.com/google/zx This suite of tools feels indispensable. Anything to keep me from having to write/maintain bash scripts that are more than a series of commands.
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by xavdid 3y ago
My personal site uses .id so the site can match my username everywhere: https://xavd.id I'm really quite fond of it. It's the Indonesian TLD, but there aren't residency requirements (for top-level domains). I&#x27
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by xavdid 3y ago
Last steam update was posted Aug 2023 which says "patch is coming soon!" so it seems like work is happening, just in the background. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1444480/view/3676677.
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by xavdid 3y ago
> Almost everything requires a server connection and they can require you to upgrade to play. This is overstating the (very real) problem. While there are certainly classes of games for which this is true, the majority of games work tota
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by xavdid 3y ago
Perfect time to fire up https://datetime.store/ and try your luck on the perfect shirt!
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by xavdid 3y ago
IIRC pipx uses your local Python version. So in your example, you'd need to `pipx install` while py 3.11 was active. Certainly not ideal, but I find it's unusual for a tool to require a super-new version. Plus, `pyenv` makes it ea
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by xavdid 3y ago
I recommend pipx ( https://pypa.github.io/pipx/ ) for this to get the same basic result. While it's not a pre-compiled binary, it is a standalone installation that takes care of dependencies and virtual virtual en
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by xavdid 3y ago
I think you misread my comment. When I talk about "piracy" here, I mean "removing DRM from a thing I paid for (or otherwise had free access to)". Being able to buy a DRM-free copy of something is far and away my preferre
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by xavdid 3y ago
If it's a big enough problem, then maybe. Honestly it just seems like a cat and mouse game - there'll always be dedicated people willing to crack any new DRM scheme that comes out. I would guess that the DRM mostly does its job th

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