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kal247··on Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
Some suggestions here : https://european-alternatives.eu/
kal247··on Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?
Mac OS Platinum theme.
kal247··on Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
I keep my bookmarks where they belong (usually in browser, with tags). I search interactively in a terminal (with a custom script and alias). It works well to select and open topic-related bookmarks at once.

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

kal247··on Ask HN: What kind of personal software improved your life?
uBlock Origin
kal247··on Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
I do something similar with interactive fuzzy search (CLI), and the search experience is quite good for me, even with limited tagging. Links contain a lot a useful information...
kal247··on Ask HN: Best thing you've made in CLI
Interactive fuzzy search of bookmarks, with multiple selection (thanks to fzf). Various sources (browsers, files) and URI schemes are supported.

Bookmarks should stay where they belong. I wrote this script to avoid duplicating them to another database/file (as most bookmark managers do).

Tip : macOS `open` command handles URI schemes, meaning it's possible to search, select and open at once links for http, ssh, ftp, local directories, etc..

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

kal247··on Actually Portable Perl
If it does what I think it does, then you've found the holy grail.
kal247··on Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
Yes, I have completely given up actually.
kal247··on Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
There's a "strings" implementation in the PerlPowerTools : https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools
kal247··on Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
> What I do miss is a way to back them up from the command line.

I've written a Perl script that print bookmarks from Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Edge as <title><url><description>, but maybe it's too raw.

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

I might add other formatting options (HTML or Template Toolkit) if there's enough interest.

kal247··on Vim Color Schemes
+1 for the only solution providing consistent colors across various terminals without wasting your time (I chose noctu.vim).
kal247··on Show HN: App:bookmarks – Export browser bookmarks as plain text
First (hobby) project that I really finish and use. This tool extracts bookmarks from Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Edge/... and simply prints them to stdout as <title><url><description>.