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2025-08-21 16:19 #

No more Python or Bash or Javascript to fetch title or other metadata from Youtube link required if you have yt-dlp installed on your system:

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2025-08-21 16:18 #

More importantly, though, feed readers put your subscriptions under your control. There’s no risk that the administrator of an RSS feed sells your details to spammers, or accidentally leaks them like the aforementioned world renowned expert on account information leaks, because there’s no administrator. If you decide you don’t want to see a particular feed any more, you just instruct your reader to stop fetching it. There’s no sending of mail or clicking of unsubscribe links. Nothing changes in the content creator’s system; they don’t even need to know it happened. — Really Simple Syndication

2025-08-21 16:10 #

Mavericks Forever. This reminded me that I still have my old MacBook Pro from late 2013, which came with Mavericks pre-installed. I ended up my Apple journey with Mojave running on a Macbook 12”, which has always been my preferred version of OSX, and one of the best laptop I used to use over the years. Now the MBP is waiting for Ubuntu to upgrade thousand of packages (I haven’t used it for two years now) before I perform a do-release-upgrade.

2025-08-20 09:01 #

I recently switched to vi keymap for Zsh. Here are some useful remapping to make it feels smoother:

bindkey -M vicmd '~' vi-swap-case
bindkey -M vicmd 'u' undo
bindkey -M vicmd 'U' redo
bindkey -M vicmd "?" history-incremental-pattern-search-backward
bindkey -M vicmd "/" history-incremental-pattern-search-forward

bindkey -M viins '^?' backward-delete-char # backspace
bindkey -M viins '^[[Z' reverse-menu-complete # shift-tab
bindkey -M viins '^a' beginning-of-line
bindkey -M viins '^e' end-of-line
bindkey -M viins '^h' backward-delete-char
bindkey -M viins '^k' kill-line
bindkey -M viins '^n' down-history
bindkey -M viins '^p' up-history
bindkey -M viins '^u' backward-kill-line
bindkey -M viins '^w' backward-delete-word
bindkey -M viins '^y' yank

autoload -U edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey '^f' edit-command-line

I don’t use ^r for backward search since it is managed by Fzf directly.

And in Tmux:

bind -T copy-mode-vi u send-keys -X halfpage-up
bind -T copy-mode-vi d send-keys -X halfpage-down
bind -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection
bind -T copy-mode-vi C-l send-keys -X clear-selection
bind -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-selection-and-cancel
bind -T copy-mode-vi 'C-v' send-keys -X rectangle-toggle \; send -X begin-selection
bind -T copy-mode-vi n send-keys -X search-forward "» "
bind -T copy-mode-vi p send-keys -X search-backward "» "
bind -T copy-mode-vi / command-prompt -i -I "#{pane_search_string}" -p "(search down)" { send -X search-forward-incremental '%%%' }
bind -T copy-mode-vi ? command-prompt -i -I "#{pane_search_string}" -p "(search up)" { send -X search-backward-incremental '%%%' }
%if "#{!=:$EDITOR,}"
set editor $EDITOR
bind -T copy-mode-vi C-f send-keys -X pipe-and-cancel 'xargs -I% tmux send-keys $EDITOR Space % Enter'
%endif

Which means in both case you can edit a command or a visual selection in your $EDITOR using ^f.

2025-08-19 22:00 #

/me is listening to “Facility Girls” by Soft Cell

2025-08-19 21:56 #

I tried them all (recently, Ghostty, for a day). My preferred terminal emulator was probably foot, back when I was on Linux.

» ls .config/archived
alacritty/         ghostty/           kitty/             matterbridge.toml  tig/               zed/
foot/              helix/             lazygit/           psql/              wezterm/
2025-08-19 13:18 #

TIL we can open multiple PDF files as tabs in Preview.app (h/t Burkhard Schmidt). On Sequoia, the corresponding setting is now in the Desktop and Dock panel. #apple

2025-08-19 13:11 #

Are you looking for an online NBT editor for minecraft? https://offroaders123.github.io/Dovetail/

2025-08-19 13:01 #

TIL about Doppler. Drag’n drop and just press play. #apple

2025-08-19 09:37 #

I got tired of NNW and I’m back with Newsboat. The bug I mentioned earlier on was due to a problem with my config file (probably related to multi-threading).