Skate Park

This line in ~/.newsboat/config will allow for hitting ",d" to download the current link with dl.sh which wraps yt-dlp.

macro d set browser "~/bin/dl.sh %u 2>&1 >/dev/null &" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "xdg-open %u"

Here's an example dl.sh file that uses notify-send so you know something is going to happen in the background and as a chance to cancel the operation. It downloads videos to ~/Videos/Downloads. Modify to taste!

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "no" != $(notify-send --app-name="yt-dlp" \
                            --urgency=low \
                            --transient "Starting download for $1" \
                            --action=no="Nevermind!") ]]; then
  yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all \
         --live-from-start \
         --output "~/Videos/Downloads/%(title)s - %(channel)s (%(id)s).%(ext)s" "$1"
  else
    printf "Aborted.\n"
    exit 1
fi

NOTE: if you close newsboat it will also stop the yt-dlp process.

I was looking for a good way to write portable scripts for NIX systems and happened across this Go library that chains stuff in a UNIX-y fashion:

script.Stdin().Match("Error").Stdout()

I just recently discovered TIC-80 and then Fennel. I was already liking Lua but now I'm hooked on LISP!! Here's my Neovim config using lazy.nvim, all written in fennel thanks to hotpot

It's not marketed like one of those "template Neovim config repos" but it could be one of those if your heart desired. I based it loosely off kickstart.nvim.

Scholar Social is hosting Solstice School 2023, an informal online conference covering a variety of topics, with presentations occurring between 2023-07-24 and 2023-08-05.

There are a ton of talks and you can download .ics files for one or all of them

This has happened to me way too many times. I think it remembers being on an external monitor or something and then you can't get to it with a mouse and also the PowerToys FancyZones shortcuts don't work.

Use Shift+Right Click on the taskbar icon for the window and select "Move". You may also need to fiddle the arrow keys a bit if moving the mouse doesn't immediately snap the window to that location.

"Windows" is an awful window manager as it turns out.

iperf3 is installable via scoop and yay. You simply run the server on one computer and point the client at that IP from another computer.

# On one computer
iperf3 --server
# On another computer
iperf3 --client <ip>

You can get your IP address on Linux like this. For Ethernet look under (probably) end0 and for wifi (probably) wlan0.

ip addr

On Windows you can use Get-NetIPAddress.

# For Ethernet
Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias Ethernet*
# For Wi-Fi
Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias Wi-Fi

If you're diligent about firewalling then you'll probably need to open up the port (default is 5201)

The native Windows Snipping Tool is pretty good. It is bundled with an editor and the built-in key bind Win+Shift+S is easy enough to remember. Unfortunately (maybe because they are working on screen recording?) its been busted for a few weeks now at the time of writing (check out the recent reviews) and I needed a work around.

Turns out that snipaste is way better anyway! For some reason installing it with scoop didn't work for me but getting it from the Microsoft Store did. It's feature packed and quite intuitive. The first customization I made was change the default f1 and f3 copy/paste keybinds to Alt+S and Alt+V 👍

Also for screen recording I poked around ScreenToGif which I think I'll keep around and see if I like...

I like scripting and I have to use Windows enough that I ended up making this setup guide and scripting crash course. I will not be using PowerShell on Linux or MacOS... but I will admit the param feature is pretty nice.

Linux, Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows... which one do you use? Do you like it? Which one is the best? Why?