would be cool if it supported basic html/css
An easy way to do this, which I use to print recipes with my TP, is to render the page as an image. I use dom-to-image for that.
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#23I had started working on something similar a few months back but as a collection of CLI utilities. The first was a todo list printer where the todos are written in a YAML file. It includes fields for the name of the list and the date. I also started working on a Sudoku printer (which I think is only possible on 80mm paper). But I completely forgot about the entire thing after coming back from vacation. You've inspire…
Already replied the same in another comment, but I recently got the "YHD-8390" on Aliexpress for around 100$ - has wifi, usb, ethernet, and works pretty well.
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#24I actually use my printers thank you very much. Even bought one of those bank teller slip printer things and a few boxes check-sized slips. I use them for time tracking and todo list. I didn't go totally crazy, though, and stopped before getting too deep into "...and then OCR them using the check scanner" because I remembered I was already keeping track of start/stop times in a database when printing the slips.
Can you share more about this workflow? I have only recently started to appreciate how my special blend of adhd can work best with there's a physical component to actually _seeing_ the work to be done vs stashed away in a jira, exclusively.
The TL;DR is that it's a physical kanban board mixed with a time clock.
I place them on a ticket rack hanging on the wall above my monitor. It like the ones you see at restaurants... extruded aluminum... filled with marbles... slot on the bottom. If my board is full, I can't (or at least shouldn't) accept more work. It also is an immediate reminder of what needs to be done. The physical process of marking a ticket done and putting it in the finished pile helps to satisfy that need to have a visible sign that work has been done.
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#25I've not much to say on the thermal printer part of this but the extensions they did to markdown are great. They had me double taking for a few seconds thinking they might be real markdown because they make so much sense. [align=center] Center-align the following text (also left, right) [qr=https://...] Generate and print a QR code Deprecating align in html was a mistake.
It’s funny, after all the work that was done to decouple content from presentation, 90% of the markup I’ve seen in every codebase this decade is using Styled Components anyway, which commingles them in the source code anyway.
Oh man... the popularity of the tailwind css framework. I have big-o Opinions on that, but screw it, if it helps people get things done quickly, then I'm all for it. The semantic xml/html dweebs set us back a solid decade.
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#26What’s a cheap but ok thermal printer? The brand mentioned in this repo? I wanted to setup https://www.colonnes.com but their recommendations were quite expensive.
For labels I use Phomomo. Quite cheap. I wrote some python code to drive it.
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#27What’s a cheap but ok thermal printer? The brand mentioned in this repo? I wanted to setup https://www.colonnes.com but their recommendations were quite expensive.
I got an Epson TM-T88IIIP for about 40 bucks used. The whole line seems to have decent Linux drivers
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#28This comes so timely. I bought the receipt printer last week and a large metal sheet to hold them magnetically to the wall for a real life todo kanban board
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#29Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
You can buy phenol free paper https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-...
There's also this which works using a purely physical process: https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/TH_Bl...
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#30Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
An alternative to consider are dot matrix / impact printers. They are used in kitchens, as heat sensitive paper doesn't work well there. It's just plain paper and an ink ribbon. Same underlying protocol as thermal printers, so the code is mostly plug and play. They often can print in two colours (red and black). And sound like the 1980s.
I... thought dot matrix printers were some of the worst for releasing particulate matter into the air? Especially ultra fine particles?