margarina72

This looks brilliant, seriously. All oss trello/todoist alternatives are either hard to use, or missing features, this looks like it has it all. Even a backend in go. On my todo list of things to try.

Just to share my own experience of trying to make this my daily web driver, both these solutions are using webkit, and webkit behaviour is not exactly perfect and can be a real pain to update. Same issue with Nyxt, which I very much wanted to use. In the end I went for Trydactyl which give the best of both world: a web browser that works, with a decent ecosystem for extensions (lack of ublock is very quickly felt, even if yes there are some alternatives but... not as good and simple) and a powerful interface that you can mod to your needs, vim or emacs shortcut can be used.

Many options exist, but in case you are building in python, this is an awesome library. Charm in goland is what I can think of that come as close to it, and in elisp of course you would do that with emacs. While emacs is awesome, not everything that can be done in emacs would be an optimal solutions for all use case. Always use the tool for the job.

you may also simply add a format specification and return either csv or json depending on the need or the context. Most language would have what it needs to return either without much trouble.

honestly i tried the vanilla default many time to start with and it was the reason I waited so long to adopt emacs.

Since I tried Doom Emacs, I am really enjoying the experience, and it has seriously improved my workflow.

Now I can gradually learn things, improve my lisp, or try new work flows, etc.

Pre made distribution are a real improvement to the emacs ecosystem.

Thanks for sharing. While I have no first hand insights, it does sound like it's not necessarily providing the best set of incentives.

However maybe it also have to do with the size of the company. To survive the ecosystem, you first need exposure and output, in order to secure a position/network that will allow you to work on harder problems.

To expand a bit on the idea, if you think of what it takes to make things move in a company the size of Facebook, you probably have a long queue of easy/boring task, and then anything remotely harder than the boring stuff require team work, collaboration and having secured the right talent in your team to move the needle. Collaboration require good communication, which can honed through getting people to write a lot about their work. It also make it easier to spot the right talent.

While it can have some negative effects, maybe at scale it helps organizing the company.

Definitely would be interested in reading other people's opinions here.

thanks for the explanation, didn't know about those spaces.

ff: hey, we got themes!

me: `guiset gui none`

While this is only anecdotal evidence, I have gathered from conversations with people not in the workforce, while being well educated, and the lack of motivation wasn't coming necessarily from a lack of ethics but more from an actual understanding what their work was contributing to, and not desiring being part of an activity they disagree with the finality of it, or at best consider it a waste of time and energy.

Again, only personal conversations with some friends and acquaintances, nothing statistically representative, but definitely show there is room for looking deeper at the root this trends before labeling people as lazy.

Just to add to conversation, IMO the smol web is mostly in need of great content, and discoverability.

When I say great content, I mean something that can federate a large audience and serve as a reference and inspiration for others.

Today most of content creator are producing for the rich web, so most of the interaction happen there, and as a result most of the new content is formatted for the rich web.

From the top of my head, Phrack Magazine [1] is the only examples I can think of text based good content. It is mostly aimed at a very specific audience, but I am sure they are other examples out there.

Which basically lead to the other question of discoverability...

1: http://phrack.org/

I am pretty sure it is a pain in the ass to debug...

(ok sorry I am out...)

> but are dumbed down because their inputs and outputs are limited

More likely because low-level artificial limitation are in place, preventing the full use of the device.

Gas was providing Russia a strong leverage in its relationship with Europe.

This leverage is now gone.

It will only make the whole region more unstable, more dependent on other international powers.

Friendly backstabbing from your allies is not something unheard of.

This winter people will die of cold, because somebody needed to make a point and get everyone on board.

Politics can be harsh sometime, but you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

I mean when you get to the point where your kids are asking about zero-knowledge protocol instead of a new iphone...

dsq is a great tool, using it regularly to work against csv files, and really nice to use.

The project can fail, you are correct, but it does not take anything from any other projects, it is just an other initiative trying to contribute in the space.

Parent commenter own search project Marginalia Search [1] could even benefit from it, or even maybe collaborate with it.

It is not a winner-take-all situation, and we need various open initiative in this space to get out of the current conundrum we are in with Google stronghold on search.

1: https://search.marginalia.nu

Interesting to see the amount of negative comments.

Most of the negativity seems to come from the following points:

- EU-funded project cannot succeed in tech because previous EU-funded projects have failed in tech in the past (and generally government-funded project in tech are suspicious)

- Search is hard, and therefore it will fail

- The project is underfunded

Even if the points above can all be valid (though the obvious US-funded startup launched by a bunch of uni students seemed to have fared pretty well) it seems we are missing the point of this project.

The proposal is to contribute to the creation of open building blocks necessary to enable others (including private US companies) to make better search products.

Better search product are needed.

Shall we remember HN of some of the intense conversations that happened here about Google failing us:

- Google Search is Dying [1]

- Every Google result now looks like an ad [2]

- Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories [3]

So while, yes search is a hard topic, we should welcome initiatives aiming at improving the ground infrastructure needed to lower the barrier to entry on this subject and hope it will allow many companies to build better search products (or inspire other initiatives to contribute in similar and even more successful way)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

One could have been skeptical about US-funding a bunch of university students to build a search engine a few years ago.

I was a heavy AltaVista user back in the time, I can tell you Google results were really higher quality, it wasn't only their homepage (even if that was also quite refreshing).

why should it took 8 years to pay off? Hosting online text and videos and a gamified social graph would give the knowledge most degree provide. The whole system is over priced. If the goal was really to deliver people with the learning experience they need to go on with a life and career, it could be done at a fraction of the cost it is done today.

the pricing of degrees in the US should be re-evaluated too, if I may. There is no way the cost of knowledge transfer cannot be optimized.

Private universities might have no incentive for change for obvious reasons left as an exercise to the reader, but it would in the interest of the government to support innovation in this area, instead of try to patch a loan mechanism that is only feeding the beast.

you mean like PenPot?

Check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262

ok, removed. Turns out ublock can do that too... On the bright side, Avast has less cash and some cool dev out there got to bank on its project.

Well a good move on penpot would be to see how to get this figma file import [1] feature some resources, maybe even open a fundraising for this feature. I am pretty sure the general dismay would help gaining some momentum for any kind of funding.

1: https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/1469

bad news of the day.

Novell... Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time

well, there is a plugin for that, even if native support would be great

When people you don't know come to you to force themselves into your business and push for a vision that is not yours, and you are wondering if you are weirdo for not wanting them to do so? I would say you are very normal.

Money is not everything and if the time come when you have a vision that requires capital and you know what you want to do with this extra cash, then you will know where to look, but don't feel bad for willing to be in charge of your business.

But was it ever supposed to?

If I remember correctly, one of the main element of the product vision was to allow better moderation, to have a "safer" online experience.

Provided it is a very relative concept, the community approach makes a lot of sense.

In a way, it is very similar to how forums used to be.

Can it be improved? 100%. Many UX elements would make the product more popular, but was it meant to be a twitter replacement? not sure.

Great idea. Add federation to it (ala mastodon and the like) so that multiple marketplace can communicate (useful for search). Think about the recommendation/comment system to avoid/minimize spam/fake reviews and scam (orders that never arrive) maybe have integration with an escrow payment system.