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I tried out Superpowered and while it's more polished than its competitors, it has a few downsides other commenters have already touched upon (pricing, memory use, and personally, the name hits too close to home to Superhuman.)

I've found that the best alternative is Slapdash. [0] Connect your calendar and then just hit cmd + J and boom -- Zoom is running. Many more connections are amazing as well, eg. deep Dropbox and Drive integration.

[0] https://slapdash.com

This is neat. In a similar fashion I'm a big fan of diff-highlight, [0] which post-processes the git diff and highlights with color the differing segments. It's super lightweight and part of the official git repo; I've saved it as a standalone #!/bin/perl in my $PATH and then included it in my .gitconfig:

  [pager]
   log = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   show = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   diff = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
[0]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...
Happy iTerm user as well. The only thing I don't like is the increased and visible latency compared to Terminal.app when creating new tabs or windows.
Re:Show HN: Deep Work Hours on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:54AM (#19311885)
Congrats on shipping, OP--looks interesting. FWIW, if someone's interested in a macOS app instead of a web one, I built Pomodoro a little less than a year ago. [0] It's minimal, sits in the menu bar, looks ok, and doesn't have ads.

[0]: https://github.com/apas/pomodoro

Re:Lyft Files S-1 on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:47PM (#19284006)
FWIW, @modestproposal pulled out some interesting nuggets from the S-1 filing and wrote a very interesting thread about some good stuff and some things that raise questions. Worth reading. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/11015421794812887...

Re:Bash 5.0 released on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:11AM (#18855963)
zsh.
Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:25AM (#18508645)
Installed it and played around for a bit. Nice work overall. Amp's jump mode (press `f` and elements in the buffer will be prefixed with a two character jump token) is pretty cool. Would love to see this in Vim.
Re:Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013) on Saturday November 10, 2018 @11:03AM (#18421860)
This sounds fun but honestly reminds me of all these emacs folks who've turned a text editor into a byzantine operating system with email, RSS, microwave cooking, and laundry folding.
Why yes, thank you for the excellent segue. Pomodoro [1] is a no-frills minimal macOS app I wrote in Swift. It does its job, looks ok, and doesn't have ads.

[1]: https://github.com/apas/pomodoro

Re:Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:11AM (#16481999)
> Using 1Password to store your 2fA seed makes it single factor

Thanks. I certainly understand that but the convenience trumps the risk imo. Further, I don't want to reach for and insert a USB drive every time I want to log in somewhere. And what if there's no available USB port?

Re:Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:03AM (#16481704)
Can someone ELI5 why Yubikeys are better for 2FA than using, say, 1Password, which simplifies the process with cmd + \ and automatically pasting the 2F code? (Even better than Google Authenticator; no need to reach for anything.)
Please open an issue on Github. Thanks!
Thanks! If you come across any problems don't hesitate to open up an issue on Github.
I have not migrated yet from my old Wordpress installation. Yes, you can write in Markdown and athena will use Pandoc to convert it to static HTML for you.
Author / OP here. athena started as a pet project for my personal blog; in the process I thought of releasing it publicly as well. I simply like Tufte CSS. athena's a great playground to experiment with ET's ideas and SSGs while incorporating my personal Pandoc (academic and casual) publishing workflow. My main goal was to create one workflow to write plain text docs and be able to publish to PDF via LaTeX (Tufte layout or not,) HTML (same,) slides, letters, &c without (or with minimal) changes in document structure. In any way, you're more than welcome to pull request a new, non-Tufte CSS layout.
Author / OP here. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:16AM (#13587925)
Print.
Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:55PM (#13067283)
I was fortunate enough to attend his talks at MIT CSAIL while working there.

Here are some notes in case anyone's interested -- [0] and [1]. I also recommend his TEDx talk.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6bbktuywoqv2w3/jurgen-talk-notes....

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ux53ism7fsxgo8x/jurgen-csail-talk2...

Well, I really like the simplicity of athena. [0]

athena is an elegant, minimalist, light-weight static blog generator written in Python. It's just over 50 lines of code. athena tightly integrates with Tufte's design and typography rules. Have a look! [1]

[0]: https://github.com/apas/athena/blob/master/athena.py [1]: https://apas.github.io/athena/

Re:The simple things I want in a text editor on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:37AM (#11901019)
Sublime Text is the better option right now. Atom is still (too) slow. Can handle pure programming, remote files over ssh, [1] complex builds, and act as a one-stop-shop for all your writing needs. [2]

[1] http://log.liminastudio.com/writing/tutorials/sublime-tunnel...

[2] My personal experience/setup: write in Markdown, export to pretty much every file format using Pandoc (binds nicely with a ST package) and custom Pandoc builds/templates. For instance, I export native Markdown to Tufte Handouts LaTeX-generated PDFs. Love this.

Re:Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:39AM (#10470290)
You know you've made it when you can casually say “I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode.”

Badass Richard.

Re:OS X Command Line Utilities on Sunday August 30, 2015 @12:59PM (#10143816)
How is cmd + K different from cmd + R and/or $ clear?

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