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ThriftyBackup's distinctive feature is that it warns you when your backup exceeds a given threshold. I implemented this because I was always forgetting to update my exclude file wh…

I started out with yadm but ended up symlinking its .git directory to ~/.git to be able to browse/stage/commit in Fork ( https://fork.dev ). To make this manageable, I added this .…

This sounds pretty much what I described in http://www.mos6581.org/git_subtree_alternative . This solution splits your changes between different branches at the time of commit, ins…

But what's an MVP? That's very subjective. I'm working on a DITA (to PDF) renderer [1] based on rinohtype [2]. About a year ago I was in a startup coaching project. I was advised t…

Doesn't seem to work on Safari (9.1.3 on macOS).

I've also been thinking a lot about sustainable open source software, mostly with respect to my own project, rinohtype. I hate ads and block them whenever possible, and I believe m…

ckemp1, as in Christian Kemp, creator of ANN.lu? I know I wasted too much time participating in flame wars on ANN in those days. In hindsight, I wish I had abandoned the Amiga much…

RinohType [1] combines a CSS-inspired style sheet system [2] with a powerful layout system based on boxes ("containers"). It currently only outputs to PDF but an SVG backend could …

I wonder how many Amiga users are left by now. I remember the heated discussions (on ANN) about whether Amiga should remain on the PPC track or go x86 (remember Amithlon?). Didn't …

I don't quite understand this one. "Now you’ll have to create a new commit...". At this point, you haven't yet created a top-level project commit at all. That sentence intends to i…

Interesting. This will indeed result in a more linear history, but I don't agree that the commits from the external repo should be absorbed into the main project's history, just as…

git-subtree duplicates history. First you make a regular commit containing both your main project's changes and the subtree changes. Afterwards the subtree change is merged in agai…

See the linked ML post: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/037150.html (search for Lout)

I've noticed these problems on Linux too... On Windows, The PDFs render correctly on SumatraPDF, Adobe Reader, PDF-XChange Reader and IIRC also Foxit PDF Reader. But I'm sure there…

Note that this is a WIP version; you should not judge RinohType on the basis of the example documents for now. I hope you'll understand that at this point I'm focusing on functiona…

Yes, I plead guilty to tweaking the title a little for marketing purposes. I'm sorry if that got some people overexcited. RinohType should eventually be able to replace LaTeX thoug…