Daeraxa @ Daeraxa @lemmy.ml

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I like the idea of Howl, its just a shame that interest and development seem to have dried up. The use of Moonscript might put people off rather than just using Lua.

• Helix for terminal editing because I never got on well with the order you had to do things in Vim, Helix (and Kakoune) make more sense to me.
• Lite-XL for a lightweight GUI editor. I just think its neat.
• Pulsar for everything else (mainly because I'm involved with it, come visit us on Lemmy at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml /shill). Literally over 10k packages for install and an awful lot of active development.

Edit: Using this to give a shout out to other projects I've come across on my travels:

• Brackets/Phoenix - A community effort to keep the abandoned Adobe Brackets editor going, has a web version now, linux version still in the works after Adobe removed support for it.
• CudaText - Pretty fast and supports a huge number of languages
• eCode - Not used it in a while but is part of the eeep GUI project, lightweight and pretty interesting with lots of active development on both eCode and eeep.
• Bitters - Very much an oddball here, inspired by the Canon CAT word processor/computer from the 80s with a really interesting "leaping" way of navigating text.
• Aura Text - Interesting little editor written in Python

And some terminal ones:

• Zee - an emacs-like editor written in Rust. Main repo seems to be dead but one of the Lapce devs is working on a fork of it - https://git.panekj.dev/pj/zee
• Amp - another Rust based editor with some interesting ways to navigate text
• dte - Just a nice terminal editor
• moe - Vim-like editor written in Nim (not to be confused with GNU Moe)
• Feather - Specifically for opening huge files
• Tilde - Curses type interface, can be used with a mouse in some terminals

Open source hardware is a thing, there are tons of projects on places like Hackaday but it feels to me like it will never quite reach the same level of success as open source software simply because it is much harder to do.

The main exception to this is obviously 3d printing where people happily share their designs and things for people to print and "remix" (i.e. fork) under CC licences.

The problem I think is that electronics is difficult and expensive (especially for "one off" orders for things like PCBs) for the most part which is why you seem to end up with two camps.

1. Hobbyists making their own electronics at their own cost and making stuff available. If you are lucky there might be a company willing to make batch orders of the custom parts along with the rest of the components as a DIY kit (which, depending on your soldering skill might be easy or extremely difficult with the possibility of ruining it) or they might pre-assemble the kit for you.
2. Companies making OSH products but there is little appetite for anyone to fork it or create a competing version in such a niche space. ClockWorkPi come to mind here with some neat little hand held computers they sell but also make the plans available for. To date I don't think I've heard of anyone making a clone from scratch or forking it to make their own modified version as the cost would be so extreme compared to just ordering the original.

So yeah, I think there is appetite for open source hardware but the high costs, practical electronic skills and ease of damaging expensive parts means that I think things will stay less active in that space. I'd love to see more, for example if super cheap prototype PCBs and pre-assembled kits could be ordered at far cheaper prices than are currently possible. Or an easy and cheap "PCB printer" with associated parts picker/placer/soldering machine to make the process of prototyping a project as easy as just ordering a bunch of generic and off the shelf parts then downloading a file or two to send to the machines. I can dream can't I?

Edit: Seems desktop PCB printing may be possible for a cool $5k (https://www.voltera.io/v-one) or £11.5k (https://www.fortex.co.uk/product/sv2-pcb-printer/). Maybe we might see a revolution in this space in the not to far future like we saw with 3d printing that brought the technology to the masses.

Edit 2: Somewhat meta - a hackaday project for a pick and place machine - https://hackaday.io/project/9319-diy-pick-and-place

Some of us say anticlockwise instead

Pandoc. I'm not even sure there is a decent alternative.

At least for the moment I'm doing it because it is fun. The main project I'm involved with is a fork of something that was pushed to the side and killed off by the big corporation developing it. Are there other tools that do the same job? Yes. But the fact that a small community came together to save the application they liked and is having fun working on it is the only justification I need.

Literally nobody in Britain says 'fifteen September'...

I made a similar post a while ago if you want to see some more answers - https://lemmy.ml/post/1990593

No its a very high pitched 'weeoooweeeeeee'. Her sister does more of soft mew followed by a brrp.

I've got two cats who are sisters and they indeed have very different meows, not just sound but how they use them. One has a very distinct greeting meow literally only reserved for when she hasn't seen me in a few hours that is isn't in any way replicated by her sister.

I think the S is for Subsystem isn't it?

Marktext is my favourite app that is very typora-like

It isn't quite correct. Darwin is actually an open source operating system at the heart of macOS which is based mostly on a bunch of BSD and nextstep stuff. The actual kernel is XNU, based on the Mach kernel.

Sounds like Plymouth. I think i counted 15 Turkish barbers

The fact that vape and phone accessory shops are often combined into one is particularly fishy...

"Try not to be a dick" is probably the most base but somehow most meaningful phrase I've ever heard and I try to live by it. Sure there is a lot more to me and things go a lot deeper but I feel if everyone at least attempted to adhere to it then who knows what things might be like.

The Glory really had me hooked the whole way.

Healthcare. People keep systems for decades.

Unfortunately AIX in particular is very much still in use in my industry. Its slowly being phased out but is very much still there.