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osxman··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Forgejo == Codeberg
osxman··on GoAccess CLI Log Analyzer Release 1.10
Always a pleasure to use this excellent fast CLI analyser that runs either in the terminal and can also generate HTML reports.

New reports – Both CLI and HTML – look really nice!

osxman··on You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML
It would be nice though, to close 'm ... Makes it more readable and less prone to mistakes.
osxman··on Affinity Studio now free
I can understand your confusion – possible anger - with my remark. But you take my answer too literally. I paid for it without regret, because I liked the software. But now it feels as a dead end so all those efforts for nothing... in the end it is a waste of both time investment and money. Cheers.
osxman··on Affinity Studio now free
Great tip, will give that a try! To find it in the Mac Appstore it is called 'Amadine' (without the 'n') It seems alright at first glance, thanks again for this tip.

Feels also more European since it is from Ukraine, supporting them feels good!

osxman··on Affinity Studio now free
This is bad news... I liked the Publisher/Designer/Photo apps on my Mac. The presentation of this new 'Canva' acquired product feels like a circus, and roadmap is very unclear also. This feels like it will be the end of a none adobe solution.

Also I paid every upgrade for NOTHING.

osxman··on Upgrading agentic coding capabilities with the new Devstral models
This is a great new AI 'Mistral Medium' model from Mistral, I used it in Zed editor today via Mistral API – and will keep on using this. It brings great code suggestions, improvements and explanations. Worth to give it a go.

Note: should be configured manually in Zed at time of this writing but then works like charm. (Use devstral-medium-2507 or devstral-medium-latest)

osxman··on Devstral Small and Medium 2507
This is a great new AI model from Mistral, I used it in Zed editor today via Mistral API – and will keep on using this. It brings great code suggestions, improvements and explanations. Worth to give it a go.

Note: should be configured manually in Zed at time of this writing but then works like charm.

osxman··on I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
Ultimate Guitar is not very accurate. That is because for example blues notes are 'bended' on a guitar by pushing up the strings a lot. Many notes are wrongly notated on Ultimate Guitar. It is better to use official sheet music books.
osxman··on How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
Some instructions are slightly outdated: 'We need sizes="32x32" for <link> to .ico file in order to fix the Chrome bug where it chooses an ICO file over an SVG.' Explanation: this revers to an old 2021 bug which is already – for a long time – solved in Chrome.

Probably small typo, by editor of article: 'With just three PNG images in this minimum set, …' Set contains an .ico, .svg and .png file -> SVG and .ico files are not PNG's.

For the rest very useful!

osxman··on The bash book to rule them all
Thanks for the article!

Might want to check 'Small, Sharp Software Tools' from The Pragmatic Programmers also. It's a great book, and comparable to the O’Reilly book.

https://pragprog.com/titles/bhcldev/small-sharp-software-too...

osxman··on Docs as Code at Linode (2020)
Bummer: there is (unfortunately) no Linode anymore…
osxman··on Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby
This is actually a very nice static site generator. Because just like with middleman or nanoc it let you extend functionality with pure Ruby. Big difference this project is certainly not a sleeper and well maintained and progressively enhanced/developed. It is highly recommended to try out if you want to build a great (product/company/etc) website. Bonus: It also supports esbuild out of the box.
osxman··on Stimulus.js 2.0
This is good news. I work for 6 months with StimulusJS 1 and I'm very happy to use it. I use it mainly in a rails app combined with Turbolinks.

My original thought was to go for an SPA with a rails API backend. I tried out both React & Vue extensively but got stuck in a while. Since implementing Rails and plain 'vanilla' JS it went better. But with StimulusJS 1+ it went simply great.

Allready upgraded to 2.0 and it feels even more structured with the new features, like values and improved targets.

osxman··on Dev Fonts
And apply that to all the font previews with the option 'Copy code to all'
osxman··on Dev Fonts
And apply that to all the font previews with the option 'Copy code to all'
osxman··on Why not use GraphQL?
I like this genius title. You can read it both ways. To use or not to use.
osxman··on Nova by Panic
Minimap => Waist of valuable screen space, even on my 42 inch 4K monitor...
osxman··on Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009)
//Accepted.
osxman··on Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (book) is a good start for better understanding/defining trees. http://a.co/9eVzvji
osxman··on The Irrepressible Mencken (2006)
H. L. Mencken, was John Fante's first publisher (in 1932), There is a 20-Year Correspondence between Fante and Mencken bundled in a Black Sparrow book: https://www.amazon.com/Fante-Mencken-Personal-Correspondence...
osxman··on The Curse of the Ramones
This is the only reaction to the article that rocks.
osxman··on Screenshot URL tracking and niki-bot
For Mac it's also possible to use 'Stache' from the app store. This has a full-page screenshot functionality built in. It cost's $6,99 but it is also possible to store collections of interesting or inspiring pages/websites in a nice looking library. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stache/id870659406