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Recommending similar projects helps everyone, including the creator of the project. Knowing your competition enough to recommend them forces you to be clear about what truly differentiates you.

> When you show up as a marketer and say, “I need to sell you this because my commission is on the line. I need to sell you this because I’ve decided this is what I do for a living.” You’re not showing any empathy. You’re being a selfish, short-term narcissist, which is what most marketers are.

> You show up and say, “It sounds like you need this. My competitor sells that. Here’s their phone number.” You’re being a human.

> If you’re not willing to eagerly recommend a competitor who sells a solution you don’t sell, then we’ve gotten to the truth of who you are and what you’re seeking to do. If you are willing to do that, then there is somebody for who you have the right solution. Find that person. Don’t try to persuade the other people that they’re wrong.

- Seth Godin

> Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

There's a powerlessness to using Android.

It's difficult to just do things. Even windows feels more "free." Phone OSes are built like prisons.

Ideally Android would let you drop into a real shell, without having to deal with android sandboxing.

Regardless, I use termux and tasker to get my automations done.

Last month another vulnerability was found.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776527

On the topic of xargs replacements, I love gnu parallel.

The --dry-run flag of parallel made me confident to do more batch processing than I ever did with xargs.

Parallel has an option for almost everything, it's almost too much.

But I have shopped around for alternatives. The creator Ole Tange maintains a painstakingly long article of the alternatives and their differences. [0]

The gnu parallel book and reading materials [1] are excellent too.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/#Tutorial

I wish Kdenlive had an api so that I could improve the QOL for myself.

I rather see the prompt they used to make that article, than the article itself. It overstayed it's welcome to say nothing.

Charm's tui library is fantastic. This combined with ruby's ease of use will make writing cli apps more fun!

> Your performance and review history is stored in an SQLite database in the same directory as the cards.

Do you use Syncthing or something else to sync your performance history between devices?

I like mani. It's a cli that lets you run any command on all of your projects or a tagged subset of them.

  $ mani exec --all --output table --parallel 'find . -type f | wc -l'
  
   Project            | Output
  --------------------+--------
   example            | 31016
   pinto              | 14444
   dashgrid           | 16527
   template-generator | 42

The custom commands you define also have shell completions. It's like a just command runner, but for all of your projects.

https://github.com/alajmo/mani

How are we so blind to these beginner hurdles?

Few people are able to see through the eyes of a beginner, when they are a master.

The 4th one is a pain to teach. Every other file and directory has spaces... so I encourage liberal use of the TAB key for beginners.

It depends on the workplace and the person.

Some workplaces:

- penalize black women for having natural hairstyles like locs

- make Sikhs remove turbans

- deny chosen names and pronouns

There are entire swaths of groups who can't be their authentic selves.

The defaults are unbearable. I prefer using chezmoi to feel at home anywhere. There's no reason I can't at least have my aliases.

I'd rather take the pain of writing scripts to automate this for multiple environments than suffer the death by a thousand cuts which are the defaults.

I am not the author, but my bet is that he didn't know of its existence.

The best part about sharing your config or knowledge is that someone will always light up your blind spots.

It is resource intensive.

It's not a problem on pc, but an obsidian vault with thousands of notes can have a laggy startup on mobile, even if you disable plugins.

Users sidestep this issue with quick capture plugins and apps, but I wish there was a native stripped-down version of obsidian.

The same post by steamdb is on twitter too, they are a steam game tracker and database.

Always support open source when you can, even if you use proprietary software instead of Blender.

Supporting open source creates competition for your paid alternative, so they're forced to give you a better product or a better deal.

Therefore with the right preparation some bugs might become delicacies.

For more power try fish's abbreviations.

With `--position anywhere` you can expand an abbreviation even if it's not at the beginning of a line.

One home is worth less than dozens of homes that bomb maker can damage. The same is true for script kiddies.

No, because reading is more healthy than mindlessly watching short videos. There is only so much content on the front page, it's not a slot machine you can pull for hours like tiktok.

You can create your own keyboard layouts in this app.

Unexpected Keyboard allows you to create your own keyboard layouts so I prefer it.

In a recent post [0] steve-benjamins tries every email marketing tool but he doesn't try any opensource tools.

These SaaS solutions can cost hundreds of dollars per month and have steep price increases as your contact list grows, but opensource alternatives like Mautic are dirt cheap, even with millions of contacts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146689

Pretty UI with automations are all these websites seem to be.

I'm leaning towards using AWS SES and Mautic for automation. Mautic is open source and can replace these overpriced UIs.

For a more in depth look at this check out Domain Modeling Made Functional [0] by Scott Wlaschin.

It will change how you write code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21487547

If the activities of the soul are so beyond mortal comprehension, then the futile attempt at understanding them should widen the soul in appreciation of the infinite depth of human creativity.

Failure at comprehension does not deaden, any more than only seeing a minute fraction of the cosmos deadens the soul. All that remains beyond our understanding should inspire awe.

Instead of `alias rm="rm –I"` for the confirmation dialog before removing a file, I prefer to use trash-cli[0] since I can restore trashed files.

However, I haven't found a similar solution that works on Termux.

[0] https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli

There is a payment here, it's reputation.

The hard part is getting people to do exhausting, boring, smelly mundane tasks that don't garner applause.

Those tasks are more numerous by orders of magnitude, until we achieve post-scarcity.

What poweruser tools are you missing in newsboat?