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• Handy little Mac app I came across lately to see (and kill) all the dev servers running on localhost from your menu bar! →

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• When playing games on niri I noticed some games don't lock your mouse cursor to your monitor. I didn't want to use Gamescope so I stumbled upon a way to do this natively in niri without needing any tools. This post provides a general purpose solution.

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• oooh this looks nice - a handy little skill to generate animated presentational videos
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• Parse Wildcard Arguments in Bash

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• I use dictation tools like "Handy" that use local models to turn speech to text. I've got a fork/PR that adds screen annotation so you can say things like "help me understand 'this' or move 'this' to the left" and it'll put both text+annotation into agents wth a single key.

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• x.comOne thing I like about niri and Vim is having choices. There's many ways to do something. You can use the mouse, the keyboard or a combination of both to do a lot of different tasks. It lets you move at the speed of thought. Here's a few examples:

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• Instantly Scale Your Monitors with niri

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• Two weeks to go until Laracon US! I've built an app which lets you add the schedule to your calendar, including the day 0 events. 📅 Handy whether you're there in-person or watching along online!

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• With Arch Linux, installing Docker Desktop is really straight forward. In this post, we'll go over installing Docker with and without Docker Desktop. It works no problem even with niri and Waybar to see and use the Docker Desktop tray icon.

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• Being able to swap windows and rotate panes in tmux is handy. You can do leader + < and swap a window to the left or right in the menu. You can also do leader + { and leader + } to rotate panes. There's also leader + space to cycle pane layouts.

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• Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American rig…
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• I added a ~90 minute demo video of using DotFriedRice. It covers configuring and installing it too. It's a niri / Arch desktop environment with modern CLI tools. The CLI set up works on any Debian / Arch based distro (WSL 2 included) and macOS!

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• How I remember link and image Markdown syntax

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• BlueskyGuest video 3/5 while I'm on leave is now up! It's by a former SoME winner, covering key ideas in statistical mechanics to create a simple and discrete model mirroring the behavior of a fluid transitioning between a liquid and gaseous state. Enjoy!

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• Another fun lil' alias: Quickly switch between git branches, listed in chronological order Suuuuuuper handy and something I use multiple times a day! gist attached:

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• #ToolTip! This handy website lets you "read" YouTube videos, by presenting their captions side-by-side with the player, so that you can skim and jump to the parts that interest you. https://t.co/HnuGKzxJ2g #productivity

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