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All the more reason to handle it sooner when its less painful to do the right thing.
Sadly I read that as "Other tools do their own thing so we decided to do our own thing too" :(

Though admittedly, "convenience for users" is a rather tricky thing to define, as you really need to define "which users". I imagine ~/.projectname is easier getting started out, but the long term management is why we (try) to have standard locations for things.

Very neat! Though I notice a particular pet peeve of mine . . .

Under https://steampipe.io/docs/reference/config-files you put everything into ~/.steampipe I'm not a fan of random apps putting a random directory there. I prefer things to use the correct directory for the platform. Example https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

Ask HN: Do you set the user-agent on your scripts?

Typically I try to remember to set the user-agent on tools/scripts I make, to avoid default agents like `Go-http-client/version` or `python-request/version` but it seems like a lot of projects do not always set it.Sometimes I will submit patches to projects to fix this, though sometimes I wonder if I'm in the minority of developers who prefer to properly set user-agent.(I am fully aware and...

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Numerous App It was a way to track lots of different values on your own dashboard

https://youtu.be/c0A9hEUnAOM

One day I hope to rebuild it.

Re:Examples of games developed by a single developer? on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:33PM (#25408846)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project

> Since 1995, the team's member, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed programming, graphics, writing, and music for the series, self-publishing 22 main titles as of August 2019.

Re:Build yourself a weather station on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:04AM (#23524983)
I've started using https://smartcitizen.me/ for some of my own use. It uses MQTT internally so could probably easily flash it with your own server address to redirect it whenever you wanted.
Sadly growl seems to be mostly obsoleted but it's cool to see my code show up in a project like this