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> What is the better alternative? One alternative is https://self.xyz . It generates ZK proofs from the digital signature on your e-passport or national ID card. That allows you to…

Do you see a way to help and improve the situation?

https://djot.net/ seems to be very sane and still very similar to markdown. And after reading the CommonMark spec, I appreciate the saneness very much. CommonMark did a great job a…

Fortunately, AI can also be used to reduce complexity. The case I noticed most often is to use the slightly more ugly API, or duplicate some generic code, but avoid pulling in a de…

You could combine both by adding a stack frame each time the error is returned one level up. This could be done explicitly (cumbersome and not everyone will do it) or automatically…

In a similar vein, I made https://www.wikdict.com/reader/sv-en/ , which adds translation pop-ups to each word in the input text. The cool thing compared to manually looking up word…

It doesn't have to. But if it does not end in .py, you have to add the --script (or -s for short) flag to tell it to interpret the file as a python script.

You can install to your path with 'uv tool install'. uvx is just an alias for 'uv tool run'.

Debian splits their distribution into three components: * main (free software) * non-fee * contrib (free software that depends on software outside of main, so usually non-free soft…

It shows "2023-11-15" below the title for me.

The creators are encouraged to create engaging/addicting/long content if that is what causes higher payments. Therefore, I much preferred the original Flattr where I defined which …

I do not want to support anything that optimizes for "engagement". It penalized all the really useful offerings that I use for a minute to solve my problem and then don't touch aga…

I agree that `envsubst` is a good choice for this. Unfortunately, it is not part of posix, so you can't rely on it being present everywhere. But as part of gettext, it is still ver…

Author here. Nice to see people appreciate simplicity. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

> I found his GEMINI approach quite funny - it strips out most of the formatting with a regexp. Do you mean the regexp in https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh#L…

Did you try fugitive as a Magic replacement? https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

The one thing that keeps me from using it more often for scripting is the lack of a fail-on-error mode (similar to `set -e` on bash). I know it is hard to get this to behave well i…

> If you can figure out a protocol where ads don't work, I'm in. Is it even theoretically possible to create such a protocol? Preventing tracking is feasible, but telling apart ads…

I have that problem, too. Can you recommend any counter-measures?

Python packages are available for sqlean as well: https://github.com/karlb/sqlite-sqlean/ .