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> I still miss the ability to "Reveal Codes" and see exactly where it had placed the non-printing codes to turn on/off bold, italics, to change margins, etc. [...] Not a full repla…

Well-written article! I wish there was some kind of standard to tell CLI apps what features to expect from the system pager, so they can act accordingly … Right now, apps can talk …

Yes, there is imgap: https://github.com/roblillack/imgap You can use it to create delta images for git diff but also to interactively compare changes via git difftool.

Wow, this project (and actually the whole thread here) is awesome. Love it! Our (iPad-based) kitchen timetable[1] is nothing compared to the work (and money) Joel sank into this. I…

It’s not PIC and not really suitable for complex diagrams, yet, but you can use Vizzlo’s Chart Vizzard to create a subset of the supported chart types (let’s say a Gantt) and then …

Author posted a screenshot here: https://bsky.app/profile/zaphar.bsky.social/post/3lc67gecky2...

OpenBSD support is quite a bit further: https://roblillack.net/openbsd-arm64-on-the-thinkpad-t14s

IIRC it's the Calculator. :(

> On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows. https://www.threads.net/@roblillack/post/DBYOuivOPFV

That did the trick, thank you!

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/hoOlRDy Happy that this will finally be a feature of FF. Still pretty useless for me, though, for these reasons: - There's an empty tab bar shown at t…

Went through the list, all listed services are SaaS apps. :( Granted, most of them are self-hosted (not all!), but this list needs to be called norecurringfee.com ….

Geez, look at the build instructions! It all went downhill when they switched from Motif to GTK.

The virtual component tree is needed as there is no 1:1 mapping of components to widgets. Using the virtual tree, you are able to build components which dynamically change the rend…

Perfect use-case, IMHO! Looking forward to hear your thoughts ocne you tried it.

For complex scenarios (i.e. the user interacting with the UI while there are some long-running processes in the backround doing this, too), managing the state quickly gets unwiedly…

Given the right C compiler and everything, Spot should work without changes on Windows (and select the FLTK) backend. My (low prio, though) goal is to implement a Win32-based backe…

Big fan of WxWindows, I'm just too invested into Go these days. :) Self-contained Spot "Hello World" is 2.3MiB on my Mac. Not pretty, but works for me.

No, it just means that the main goroutine should not be moved onto another OS thread to ensure that it is always the same OS thread which will run UI updates. This is necessary for…

The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating syste…

While I agree, that the virtual widget tree has a certain overhead, the typical desktop app you would create with Spot probably does not have 1000s of components—more like ten to t…

Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I'm happy with the results…