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apas

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    Comment #26433854

    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, …

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    Comment #22999119

    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 a…

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    Comment #19999843

    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.

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    Comment #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, si…

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    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 …

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    Comment #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.…

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    Comment #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 foldi…

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    Comment #17282487

    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…

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    Comment #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 …

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    Comment #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 Goog…

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    Comment #15797596

    Please open an issue on Github. Thanks!

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    Comment #15665812

    Thanks! If you come across any problems don't hesitate to open up an issue on Github.

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    Comment #15660632

    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.

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    Comment #15660535

    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 playgro…

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    Comment #15660506

    Author / OP here. Thanks!

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    Comment #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] htt…

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    Comment #12959173

    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 ti…