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Re:Bring Back Crappy Forums on Thursday July 02, 2026 @11:11AM (#48762866)
Storyden is a nice self hostable forum solution if you are looking for something less crappy

https://www.storyden.org/

I also use icdiff, but it is good to have the file-awareness for git diff esp. the ability to quickly skip files that I know aren't important.
Re:Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:39PM (#46577728)
With the introduction of proxy-based reactivity using runes, that is largely a solved problem in svelte.
Re:The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:50AM (#45884489)
For folks looking for a GUI tool, SourceGit is quite nice.

Written in C#, cross-platform (I have only used it on linux) and a cleanly-designed conventional ui that doesn't aspire to radically alter your workflow.

https://github.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit

Yes, I also like relying on just functions.

I have found aberdeenjs a better dx than hyperscript.

https://aberdeenjs.org/

This looks interesting and seems like a vast improvement over jsx.

I especially love the pug style concise syntax which for some reason they have buried deep into the docs rather than showcasing front and center.

https://markojs.com/docs/reference/concise-syntax

Re:Microsoft POML – Prompt Orchestration Markup Language on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:38PM (#44856831)
There is a difference between a product that a company pushes out as part of its business roadmap with a commercial strategy around it vs. an experimental research project that a single developer takes up on their own initiative.

It is great that they were allowed to open source it.

Re:XMLUI on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:05AM (#44632810)
I understand the motivation for this, but don't understand why this can't just be a collection of web components.
Re:Taking Notes with Joplin on Monday April 21, 2025 @06:31AM (#43750290)
There is an ongoing community effort to revive it: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes
Re:Kaneo – An open source project management platform on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:38AM (#43147481)
This looks fantastic. Thanks for open-sourcing this. For a passion project this looks really polished and well done.

I know a lot of people have crazy expectations from open-source projects these days - and many of the comments here echo those, but you can gradually evolve it at your own pace. You don't owe folks anything.

Re:Edge TTS on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:50AM (#42801099)
The ReadEra app for android supports this, and I use it for reading/listening to ebooks during commute. It works well.
I was primarily talking in the context of shared server deployments for teams
It is quite beneficial for people who aren't writing python. And for them managing jupyterlab installations is a bit of pain.

I would like to use this with xeus kernel for sql (which is also native) and if this reduces the resource consumption of that setup significantly, its a big plus for me.

Re:Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file on Friday December 20, 2024 @03:14AM (#42469206)
I use teable with sqlite - it has a kanban board view
Re:Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:57AM (#42338156)
Understood. IMHO it would be desirable to have built in support for all common crud operations to be end-to-end type-safe.
Re:Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:55AM (#42338141)
Just because some edge cases aren't supported, doesn't mean you can't take advantage of the type-safety in the rest of the application.

This particular feature seems to have nothing to do with the query builder even, just the migration system. You can always write just those specific migrations manually.

Re:Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:10AM (#42336896)
Does using template strings not compromise with type-safety? The drizzle example will be a compile time error for example if id wasn't a numeric column.

Seems a strange design choice for a library that claims to offer a type-safe sql builder.

It has been coming for a while. But I am looking forward to it. It is the only thing preventing me from using it.
Typst is great, but really doesn't really serve the primary use case of mdbook which is building documentation websites or digital knowledge gardens that are accessible as a website.

If you are typesetting a research paper or writing a technical book for print publication typst is a great solution, but for a lot folks not having web support is an absolute dealbreaker.

This is a great concept. I'd love for this to be a part of a notetaking solution that I can run locally.

Curious what your long term plans are.

I am also curious if it supports taking (entire) tables as inputs and creating derived tables from them which can then be presented as chart etc. That would be really powerful.

There is also an official typescript implementation [1] and sops supports it natively [2].

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/typage

[2] https://github.com/getsops/sops?tab=readme-ov-file#encryptin...

Re:Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:20AM (#41002422)
Foliate's core function is an ebook reader and not library management. Once installed you can double click your epubs to open them on foliate - it will not move around your stuff.

There is a library view in the app but it is mostly a history of recently accessed files.

Re:Zed on Linux Is Here on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:04AM (#40936289)
I started using this a few hours ago and so far am really pleased with the experience. Vim keybindings mostly work as expected and TS integration works great oob. I can totally see this becoming my primary editor going forward.
Nice. I use pgcli for postgres and wanted something similar for sqlite.
Bookstack is quite nice but last I saw it doesn't support multi user collaboration which this tool seems to include as a core feature. That can be a big differentiator for a lot of people.
Re:How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux) on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:11AM (#40808132)
If you want to avoid Adobe software, but are familiar with photoshop, Photopea [1] is a great choice.

It supports psd files (natively, without any export/import), has similar shortcuts, can import photoshop brushes and overall comes across as a well designed software. Their subreddit has a great helpful community too.

I am not a professional photo editor or graphic designer, but I have been using it a few times every week for last year or so and have yet to come across any bugs.

[1] photopea.com

Re:LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:39PM (#40770794)
Also https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl - if you want a conventional repl, also cross platform.
Re:webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++ on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @02:42PM (#40515300)
Primarily because it bundles a webserver to bridge the host code and code running in the browser.
Try edge: https://edgejs.dev/

It is mature and feature rich. I like that the expressions can be plain js and it is not coupled with html.

Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:52AM (#40232819)
If you scroll down there is support for a pure C# builder API too which looks quite nice.

https://platform.uno/c-markup/

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