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al3x

@al3x@hachyderm.io

friends, cats, distributed systems, questions

(currently Sen.Dir of Eng. for Oracle Cloud, ex-{DataStax/Cassandra, RethinkDB, co-founder InfoQ})

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al3x, to random
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In the last few days I had to use quite a bit a diff tool on my macOS.

  1. bbdiff sort of worked but didn’t feel intuitive
  2. FileMerge (through opendiff) felt like the beginning of macOS.
  3. Kaleidoscope felt the most intuitive and friendly.

I haven’t tried vimdiff as I don’t know if it works on folders. I should though.

I’m considering upgrading to Kaleidoscope 4, but the list of new features and the transition to subscription are not very convincing.

al3x, to random
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With Kaleidoscope being now a sub-based app, what are other diff tools for macOS?

al3x, to vim
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Today I have used VS Code. Because I couldn’t get a file browser working in a logical way in vim. Almost every action resulted in a behavior that surprised me; negatively.

al3x,
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@whynothugo how does that work? Could you briefly describe a common flow?

  1. I'm looking at source file x. See reference to y. 2) navigate to file y.

al3x,
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@whynothugo Makes sense. This is my usual workflow too.

In this particular case I had a project where the structure was important and I wanted to be able to compare different subfolders.

I hoped I'll get that done using netrw. Because I'm not used to it, I haven't been able to.

al3x, to random
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How do you feel about paying a subscription for an interval timer?

I might be wrong, but I feel this is too much. Is it the result of the App Store and the abundance of apps?

al3x, to macos
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Here’s what I’ve discovered while playing with Command-Tab on macOS:

  1. Cmd-1, Cmd-ArrowUp, Cmd-ArrowDown: shows all the windows of the selected app in Command Tab
  2. Cmd-Q: quits the app
  3. Cmd-H: hides the app

Surprisingly, Cmd-M doesn’t do anything. (I was expecting to minimize).

Any other tips & tricks?

al3x, to animation
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Yesterday I watched "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" as part of my a Studio Ghibli movie per week.

Even if the underlying message is a warning, the overall feeling after watching the movie is a feel-good.

al3x, to random
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One of my challenges is to stay focused on some activities. I have noticed that I have the tendency to give up and switch to some “immediate gratification” apps like Mastodon, email, RSS. You’ll also notice that many of these have the ability to provide “infinite” supplies. To deal with this, I have unsubscribed from all email newsletters so my email inbox is unattractive now. I am considering taking some radical decisions relative to short social media and RSS too. Any advice for me?

al3x, to random
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After many years, after many processes, after many tools, some things that still elude me and I struggle with in task management:

  1. what is really a task vs what’s an idea
  2. however good at filtering the tasks you get, there will always be more tasks than time and/or energy
  3. instead of looking at the remaining tasks, there are no easy ways (or tool support) to help celebrate the completed ones
al3x,
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@ehler my attempt to accomplish something similar is based on Workflowy and OmniFocus.

Workflowy is a tool I quite enjoy using. It's sort of the web-based TaskPaper.

al3x, to random
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fyi @pluralistic I have tried to subscribe to the feed using Reeder and it errors saying it cannot find a feed.

al3x,
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@pluralistic it was http://pluralistic.net/feed. I've tried again right now and it worked. Very odd. Thanks for making me try again.

arialdo, to vim
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Bram was by far the most prolific contributor to Vim (70x commits compared to 2nd prolific contributor).

https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors?from=2004-06-13&to=2023-08-05&type=c

With his departure, I wonder if this means the end of as we know it, with taking over as the successor.

What do you think?

al3x,
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@musicmatze @arialdo @gnujeremie

"vimscript was a mistake" isn't that hindsight?

al3x,
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@cjk @arialdo @musicmatze @gnujeremie

to me it looks like Vimscript, Elisp, Lua were all successful considering the vast plugin ecosystem that was built on them. were they ideal? I don't know. were there some developers frustrated? maybe were some ideas harder to implement? probably. Did any of this stop the ecosystem evolve? No.

al3x, to random
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The TouchID on my iPad Mini works less than 10% of attempts. Is this normal?

al3x,
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@czottmann In my case I suspect that is my climbing that has significant impact on my fingerprints. I did try to recreating the fingerprint records regularly but no better results.

al3x,
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@mako not running a beta. I'm suspecting that practicing climbing is not very friendly with my fingerprints

al3x, to random
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@MonaApp I’m getting an error when trying to load my Bookmarks. The error seem to indicate toward a Mastodon issue: “Error: Maston: Record not found. Reload”

Any ideas what should I do? thank you

al3x,
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@MonaApp I’ve just bookmarked your reply on the website. Start Mona, click Bookmarks tab, and still the same error.

al3x,
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@MonaApp I’ve bookmarked something directly from the app and got the same issue. Could it be the app?

al3x,
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@MonaApp Hmm… it worked. I believe the app was in a detail view of a toot when switching to the tab. False alarm I guess. Really sorry

simonbs, (edited ) to random
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Went shopping and bought myself the “I stayed up all night playing with the visionOS SDK and I plan to work with it all day too”-kit.

al3x,
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@simonbs zero sugar (?)

andycarolan, to random
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I just tried to buy either Pomegranate, Cranberry or Cherry juice.

Pomegranate = Contains Sucralose

Cranberry 1 = Contains Sucralose

Cranberry 2 = Contains Stevia

Cherry = Contains Sucralose

FFS! I either want unsweetened or one with natural sugars.

When did we decide that sugar was evil?!

al3x,
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@andycarolan Is Stevia and sucralose worse than white sugar? (I'm very interesting in this topic and I haven't got to study it yet)

mako, to random

I do love Gentler Streak; it doesn’t promote grinding away, but rather, encourages you to rest when you need to.

al3x,
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@mako This one https://gentler.app/? I’m currently managing my own training schedule and use both Garmin and Apple Watch for tracking. I’m paying (some) attention to Garmin’s Training readiness and Time to recover. I can’t take it very serious though given its own smart scheduling don’t consider those metrics.

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