CLI, nvimdiff 90% of the time. If I’m on a windows workstation, I might end up using git extensions GUI as it helps me visualize what’s happening a little better sometimes.

Been waiting for tree structure! Thank you for the hard work on this, love this project.

I would LOVE to use blender on my tablet! If they can deliver the performance with a “better than 2.79” interface for touch, I’ll be a happy camper.

YYYYMMdd is best for file names.

I prefer verbose for my task bar

ddd, MMMM dd, hh:mm:ss ap (t) Wed, June 11, 09:49:35 am (PDT)

I think you’re confused about my sentiments.

It doesn’t matter how well the current apps run, they should be 1st class citizen features seeing as power toys has been around since Windows 95 days as a series of useful tweaks and applications that are ubiquitous enough to exist through till now, including the constant expansion of features since the windows 10 open source version was published several years ago.

If there wasn’t a dedicated community around these features, then you’d have an argument that they’re superfluous but the project has taken off like a rocket with regular improvements and fixes all these years now.

The point is that Microsoft is prioritizing so many things with AI/copilot these days, it’s a damn shame they relegate actually useful features to the open source community where performance and integration is likely suffering, despite the community’s best efforts.

Windows Power Toys is a suite of programs and tweaks for Windows, one of which is “Run” that behaves similar to spotlight search on macOS. If you have to operate in Windows, I’d say the suite is a must-have for Run, Fancy Zones, File Renamer, Screen Ruler, and Color Picker alone. It’s good software that should be built into the OS but for some reason is not— built and maintained by a dedicated open source community these days as opposed to just a couple individuals from inside Microsoft back in the day when Power Toys was a proprietary tool first released on Windows 95.

z myDir

Thank you! This is a wonderful post, I will take another shot this weekend and hopefully something will stick this time :)

Any advice? I’m trying to get a handle on it but I’m having trouble remembering anything or finding what to do in the first place.

Jetbrains Rider for C# and VSCodium for arduino / microcontroller programming.

I’m trying to learn my way around the tmux + neovim life but the learning curve might be too much for me.

Just a reminder that as long as you don’t need any kind of platform hosting or complex multi-user setup, git itself works fine on a remote machine as your server, even just on LAN. (As always, just setup an ssh key on the two machines so ssh commands are secure and don’t require passwords all the time)

> cd /my/repos
> ssh user@10.x.y.z ‘mkdir /home/user/repos/new_repo.git && cd $_ && git init --bare’
> git clone user@10.x.y.z:/home/user/repos/new_repo.git

What about a hard drive made of network pings?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

I will always recommend Ben Eater’s breadboard computer 6502 project for anyone who wants to know how it works. The 8-bit breadboard computer project as the next step too, to really dive into all the pieces. But the 6502 project is a nice entry point into hardware itself as well as the basic components of processor and memory. How and what the 1s and 0s are doing and how to make them do what you want them to do. Getting up to a working character display and serial input for a keyboard to type is such a satisfying process that takes only a few hours if you kinda know what you’re doing and a few days if you know nothing.

If your app doesn’t respond to SIGTERM gracefully, you need to fix your app. The system did its job as documented.

As an engineer, I’m not looking forward to the entire generation(s?) of vibe coders who couldn’t explain what a byte is and the ways one might be stored on a system.

Just puts(“I’m a teapot”); :)

Well aren’t you insufferable.

Doing my part.

Alternativeto.net is a good resource for finding alternatives by filterable tags including platform! Also wine and proton have come a long ways, many windows apps work just fine in a small wine or proton container.

There will always be a need for talented systems engineers with emphasis on security. Programming in general is a good thing to learn anyways but understanding systems, how they work, and how they communicate is equally as important. There’s a lot of manpower needed for information security right now.