monolith: CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.

Credit where credit is due: Apple had listened to their users and the next version - macOS Sequoia — shipped with lots of fixes. Border radius was heavily reduced, transparent glass-like panels replaced by less transparent ones, buttons made more serious and less toyish. Most system icons made more serious, too, with focus on more detail. Overall, it seemed like the 2nd version was a giant leap from infancy to teenage years. — Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

Building Full-Text Search for BibDesk PDFs.

/me is listening to “Free Money” by Patti Smith

Work in progress regarding tagging and reorganizing my BibTeX database.

I wrote a minimal vimrc file to be used on external servers, as a replacement for my Neovim full config. I recommend minimal settings discussed by Romain Lafourcade if you’re lacking inspiration or want to try some zero-plugin config, BTW. It appears that shift insert in a rectangular selection is very slow with default settings in Vim 9. The culprit seems to be ttimeoutlen which defaults to 1000 (i.e., the default value of timeoutlen). When set ttimeoutlen=100 like in Neovim, everything works smoothly. #vim

Two very useful applicationss with stunning Apple design! Expect some quick review soon.

Thing is: BibDesk insists in transforming your clean BibTeX file into a mess. I already use bibclean to format my database:

if executable("bibclean")
  setlocal formatprg=bibclean\ -align-equals\ -brace-protect\ -delete-empty-values\ -fix-accents\ -quiet
endif

Now, I need to resort to bibtool to remove extra stuff added by BibDesk on the fly:

nnoremap <silent> <buffer> g= :!bibtool -q -s -r ~/Documents/notes/clean-bibdesk.rsc % -o %<cr>

In my case, clean-bibdesk.rsc actually reads:

delete.field { bdsk-file-1 }
rename.field { bdsk-url-1=url }
key.generation = off
preserve.key.case = on
preserve.keys = on
print.line.length = 9999999

I guess it will evolve over time with the new surprises Bibdesk has in store for me.

An ever-changing collection of command line tools that I find useful on a daily basis or just fun to play with from time to time.