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Many folks aren’t aware that there is also an open-source, cross-platform desktop GUI application for Jujutsu called GG: https://github.com/gulbanana/gg I mention it because while …

Interesting to see two similar projects with the same "cmux" name, at least until this one was renamed two weeks ago to "mux". Naming is hard. I have not yet tried either one, but …

In the first segment of the very first episode of the Abstractions podcast, we talked about Google killing its goo.gl URL obfuscation service and why it is such a craven abdication…

Benefiting users is definitely not Ollama’s first priority, as seen when this pull request was summarily closed: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/395 Those README changes o…

These comments would carry more merit if they weren’t coming from the very person who closed this pull request: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/395 Those rejected README c…

Integrating ripgrep-all with fzf makes for a powerful combination when you want to recursively search the contents of a given directory. I have been using a shell function to do th…

Having owned countless Mac notebooks over the last 30 years — starting from the PowerBook 140 up through the M1 MacBook Pro — I can tell you with confidence that Apple has made the…

As the maintainer of the Python-based Pelican static site generator for over a decade, I can say with confidence that my experience has been nothing like what is described in this …

Sorry for the confusing language choice on my part. I just meant that I think it's great that your project supports JMdict. I think how you are using JMdict is indeed totally okay!…

As a credited contributor to the EDICT[1] Japanese/English dictionary, I am very pleased to see its successor JMdict[2] actively supported by this project. Bravo! And as someone wh…

Python 3.12 is now available via asdf [1]: asdf install python 3.12.0 [1]: https://justinmayer.com/posts/homebrew-python-is-not-for-you...

Quite true. I actually submitted a pull request [1] over a month ago to make it clear to potential users what will happen when Ollama is launched for the first time, but based on t…

If you use Fish shell and Python, my project VirtualFish can make managing virtual environments a lot easier and more fun: https://github.com/justinmayer/virtualfish

This project is not open source but instead uses the “Business Source License”. I only mention this in case open source is something that is important to you.

A interesting option I haven’t seen mentioned here is Beeware, an open-source (MIT) project with this summary: “Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows,…

I use and really like Gitea: https://gitea.io/ You could also have a look at a recent Gitea fork, with a very unfortunate and cumbersome name: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

The README in the GitHub project repository says: > “This application is in maintenance mode.” Source: https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard I think there are better open-source kan…

Frustrated by expensive per-seat pricing and unfriendly contract terms, we looked for PagerDuty alternatives and found a fantastic open-source project called Uptime Kuma: https://g…

Carrying out the original intent (going on the run), even in a lesser form than the ideal (going slower than usual), helps to reinforce the habit. Ultimately, this is about masteri…

Thank you for effectively confirming what I long suspected. Much appreciated.

I firmly disagree with all of the above. If a site absolutely needs to know where I am in that moment, they can ask me, and I will decide where I am for the purposes of that partic…

That's not the point. People should not be forced to switch from one language to another, multiple times, for every site they visit , when in a country that speaks a different lang…

Google's answer to this problem is, "Just log in! Then we will always know what language you prefer." So Google doesn't make it easier to change that setting because they want you …