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al3rez

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al3rez··on I love Omarchy but I needed Niri so I made this
This will setup that nice Omarchy quickshell, theme switch and etc; but with Niri
al3rez··on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB
I implemented something similar for a 3M/day ad tech platform. We created a few materialized views for my boss, myself, and the DevOps team to monitor, instead of querying over 100 tables. I used stored procedures in PostgreSQL, which made it fast, efficient, and non-blocking also not to mention we avoided setting up complex Grafana/UI in admin dashboard, boss: i want to know x, y ,z, okay -> tableplus, -> export csv boom!
al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
no when you use todo.txt with Cursor/Supermaven in Neovim you can jsut write everythign and type everything out (as it adapts to your writing style) so it takes me less than few minutes to write my notes, todos etc. why is it joke?
al3rez··on SHOW HN: I made a 30fps CLI Tetris game in PHP after watching the Tetris movie
So I watched the "Tetris" movie and it was amazing!

I got itchy to build the tetris game in php and see how fast we it can turn out and specially the line clearning and the algos used, how can this be better? I am not a fluent PHP developer I used PHP mainly from high-school and recently been building apps using Laravel for clients (I am a experienced dev though)

So feel free to roast it.

al3rez··on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils
it's a nice hackery thing to do, but i am too old and tired to use it hehe, i prefer my todo.txt
al3rez··on Please Don't Promote Wayland
i am using wayland on fedora 42 + kde, it's fine what are you talking about? if you stop running sway/hyrpland rices you'll be fine.
al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
i often use telegram saved messages for this
al3rez··on Ask HN: What makes a good take-home coding assignment?
I had an interview a while back that I really liked:

    A pair programming session on a home assignment (it was a Java banking app) with 2–3 bugs and missing features. This allows the interviewer to see the candidate’s problem-solving skills and how quickly they can find, fix, and add features.

    A take-home assignment with a static JSON file containing products, where the developer is asked to build both a front end and a back end around it. This lets you assess their systems thinking — do they overcomplicate things, chase the latest tech, or make wise, pragmatic decisions? During the interview, you can also expand the scope of the assignment, e.g., What if this needs to be production-ready? What would you add?
Anything else usually ends up being a waste of time for both the interviewer and the developer.

I’ve done over 100 of these in the last 10 years.

al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I have this in tmux opening a flaoting window with neovim and <leader>g to search by tags which opens quickfix pane
al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
i realized either it's pen & or paper or .txt this was a 10+ year experiement and i wasted alot of time finding and building workflows and none of them sticks more than .txt file (i also had a more automated version of it in macos using .txt file and macros that time blocked my calendar but it was too restrict)

nothing falls my mind i can just add #note #<project> #idea or whatever consistent tagging or subnotes i can do the todo.txt and it'd be easier to even feed it to chatgpt/or what everllm to even remind of my most important ones in the future and send me notification in telegram or something.

al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
it has and it's called taskmator, used it for years, but now run linux.
al3rez··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I tried both Org and taskwarrior, still for me it takes more actions, more frictions and formatless nature of txt file suits me otherwise I will end up optmizing my org mode workflow lol
al3rez··on Show HN: I made a Ruby on Rails-like framework in PHP (Still in progress)
This is a expriment and having fun not to replace any mature framework
al3rez··on Show HN: I made a Google images clone for Pixiv (Japanese art website)
pretty cool, i just tried, it is it open source?
al3rez··on Reddit 4k wallpaper directory from top subreddits, enjoy
yeah i'm using 2 monitors and i really like seeing the wallpapers specially from nature/cities in the morning but that's just me i get your point, less monitor real estate you'd probably throw some window management there to use the space.