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Interests: Regular Expressions, Linux CLI one-liners, Scripting Languages and Vim

GitHub: github.com/learnbyexample

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A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (iximiuz.com)

SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today. It may very well be that learning a couple of SSH tricks is more profitable in the long run than mastering a dozen Cloud Native tools destined to become deprecated next quarter....

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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Check out novelwriter.io

I’m not familiar with such softwares (I use pandoc for technical writing), but might help you…

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Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor is a fun and easy read

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As per the manual, “Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors” - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

While Vim doesn’t make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

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What’s the difference between two_percent and skim?

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I’m self-published and haven’t worked for other publications. Sometimes, my submissions reach HN front page, so you might have seen there or because others picked it up from there and shared around elsewhere.

learnbyexample,
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Yeah, it is uncommon spelling, but if you google, you’ll find it’s not that rare ;)

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You’re welcome, happy learning :)

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