oxalorg
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Comment · 10 months ago
This sounds very close to my dream IDE, I've always wanted to build a smalltalk + emacs like editor/ide in Clojure but never got around to it.
I wanted to try Easel but there were no instructions how. This is how I got it running:
git clone [email protected]:phronmophobic/easel.git
clj -X:deps prep
clj
# now in repl
=> ((requiring-resolve 'com.phronemophobic.easel/run))Comment · 10 months ago
At work we've started switching to codeberg (which uses forgejo) and honestly it's a breath of fresh air compared to GitHub. It's blazing fast compared to GitHub and has feature parity with our needs.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have clicked about ~20,000 photographs on a Sony camera in the last year and a half. And I have published exactly 0 of those photos on social media.
Whenever I meet my friends and family, I show them the pictures myself and the story behind them.
I love the thrill of street photography and it gives me immense pleasure to capture candid moments of humans. It's a great creative outlet for me and helps me think about life and philosophy through my pictures.
Maybe one day I will care enough about publishing these pictures, maybe one day I will care about AI. But right now, I don't. This is the closest I've been to my "kid"-like self, just enjoying something for the heck for it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I left my Hetzner VPS open to password logins for over 3 years, no security updates, no firewalls, no kernel updates, no apt upgrades; only fail2ban and I survived: https://oxal.org/blog/my-vps-security-mess/
Don't be me, but have some solace in the fact that even if you royally mess up things won't be as bad as you think.
I self host a lot of things on a VPS and have recently started self hosting on a raspberry pi 5, it's extremely liberating!
Comment · 1 year ago
I left my VPS open to password logins for over 3 years, no security updates, no firewalls, no kernel updates, no apt upgrades; only fail2ban and I survived: https://oxal.org/blog/my-vps-security-mess/
Don't be me, but even if you royally mess up things won't be as bad as you think.
Comment · 1 year ago
I recently added the python-feedgen module for creating feeds in my blog generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox/commit/3a73013ffe82930b1a7e...
I always love removing dependencies and simplifying software. I will try and switch to a simpler implementation like yours, thanks for sharing!
Comment · 1 year ago
Seeing lots of emacs praise on HN since the last 2 days.
In this blog post I walk through the process of how I go about extending emacs (specifically a 3rd party plugin) and tailoring it to my specific problems.
I'm definitely not an emacs pro, but I've written a few packages in emacs and have a cursory idea of it's vast powers! Happy to answer any question.
For anyone interested, my emacs config is at: https://github.com/oxalorg/.emacs.d
Comment · 1 year ago
Creating signal backups for iPhone users is _really_ hard. The only way to do it is to get a backup from the Signal Desktop app, which is also non-trivial because in recent versions of the desktop the decrypt key is also encrypted and store in keychain.
I had to install sqlcipher, find my encrypted key stored locally, find the decrypt key in apple's keychain, decrypt it using Signal's format, etc. This took a lot of trial and error, and reading a lot of existing source (special thanks to https://github.com/bepaald/get_signal_desktop_key_mac but unfortunately it did not work OOTB for me)
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry but this is anything but simple to me.
I consider my own static site generator [1] much simpler than this. Around 250 SLOC with 4 dependencies (markdown2, pyyaml, jinja2, Pygments)
Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times.
It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year.
Everything handcrafted:
- the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise!
- it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox
- my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/
- if you go to https://oxal.org/blog/ you will see a small cyborg following you (started with a base image generated by chatgpt and then edited and added animations manually in Piskel sprite editor)
- it's deployed on a VPS manually, just run `make` (I've experimented with serving it via a handwritten C http server, but I haven't finished this toy project yet)
- i have several shell scripts which uploads things to my websites in private locations (think gists, quick share videos, screenshots etc.).
- the favicon is also pixel art, made when I was still in college! https://oxal.org/favicon-32x32.png
- I even tried designing my own funky font but gave up and used a Naruto inspired font
- and as a bonus, try to `view-page-source` on the home page
I see my website and feel extremely proud of my journey as a software engineer, and I cherish this simple thing oh so dearly!
Comment · 3 years ago
Curious to learn more about your switch from Emacs to VSCode?
I'm a super confused soul, and currently I use all of them:
- Emacs (for clojure / lisps / big projects).
- NeoVim (for when I want to work in the shell, smaller scripts/playground, ssh).
- VScode (js / ts / frontend / figma / etc).
I've made both my vim and emacs keybindings / features almost identical, so there is limited context switching there.
I feel very slow in VSCode, I don't even have one of my most common task optimised in VSCode yet: grepping something and quickly moving to that buffer.
Comment · 3 years ago
<3 Following you on twitter since years now! Been learning a lot from your tweets, thanks for sharing all the valuable insights!
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks, super glad you found a use case for it! :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for mentioning Sakura.css! <3
Trying my best to end needless suffering; love discussing ethical philosophy.
Looking for an opportunity to help earth, humans, and animals at an exponential return.
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