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https://link.horse Linkhorse has been great for organizing my links. Like my own personal bibliography.
- WSLtty ( https://github.com/mintty/wsltty ) Better than the Windows Terminal for WSL. You can work in tmux without getting strange visual artifacts, and allows you to view sixel graphics in console! Fair warning though, I only installed it about two weeks ago, so I can't claim I've battle-tested it though. ETA: The one thing it doesn't allow me to do is change font programmatically, which would allow me to switch f…
Not missing anything from WSLTTY, don't have artifcats in Tmux (my daily driver just in case).
Looking on WezTerm once it will be more stable/focused on WSL/Windows
interested in Windows Sandbox - couple of use cases? AFAIK, it's useful when trying things out, while I'm not doing this much - pretty stable requirements/software selection - but may be I miss some trick here.
Another as you mentioned: repeatedly testing a Windows desktop software installation process as it is being developed.
It primarily offers an undetectable incognito mode browser session (Microsoft Teams login requires 3rd party cookies, etc.).
Really wish winget worked inside Windows Sandbox!
Not especially extraordinary, and I'm sure there are tools that are better for other people, but, for my workflow, apple notes has been fantastic. Any time I think of something cool, see something cool, whatever - I add it / paste it into a long running note I have labeled "Cool stuff." Whenever I'm bored, I just read through it and usually find something I didn't have time to dig into more thoroughly before. Or, if…
Sometimes I return to my HN favorites in a forgotten browser tab and start reading down the list super excited that the HN front page is suddenly 100% interesting.
Native compilation, eglot, and getting sensible defaults.
Every Windows user should run WizTree on their personal machines at least once a year to get a lightning fast report on disk space usage. Cleanup should start wih the largest items or you're just wasting your time! (Apparently "rclone ncdu" is helpful for cloud storage...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893815#33894842
Also Windows only: Bitvise SSH Server is now free for personal use. I've been using it for over a decade since it offered simple multifactor authentication before OpenSSH (https://security.stackexchange.com/q/17931) and can block most bots by client identifier (libssh) -- OpenSSH does not yet support this so no one bothers spoofing. It has a nice UI and PowerShell CLI for settings, including TOTP auth (no U2F yet) and IP address allow lists. Their free-as-in-beer SSH client is a great GUI for port forwarding (especially RDP), SFTP, etc. but I dislike its terminal's clipboard handling.
A Mac-only recommendation: https://gitup.co a GPL3 Git client with a unique UI and undo. I've cloned repos on a Mac just for another perspective that helped me understand what was happening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579701&p=2#27580659
If you use Pandora, check out the pianobar cli. For Twitch, there is Chatty (+streamlink cli & VLC).
I set up signal-cli with a Google Voice number but haven't continued down the path of automating Signal.
I tried Tailscale 2021-ish but it seemed a bit early, couldn't log out yet (run as a service). So I went with ZeroTier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284754
I use the Brave browser on the desktop and Firefox Focus on mobile. I would like Brave better if it supported containers, but no browser does that for Incognito mode so I just use other browsers for multiple simultaneous temporary disassociated sessions.
I set up a Valheim server on the Oracle Cloud "always free" tier following this guide (running 32-bit & 64-bit x86 on 64-bit arm): https://old.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/s1os21/create_your... along with a shell script to filter the logs and announce logins on Discord.