Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn’t blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.
I do this all time waiting for the price to go down during a sale or to get a “You forgot something in your cart” discount. If its a vendor I only buy from 1-2 a year it will likely sit there for 6-12 months.
Its likely hard because its honestly niche.
Linux administration is terminal first so SSH is pretty much all you need. Some services have a WebUI to fill the gap, but its bound to that service. Most server variants of distros don’t even include a desktop environment.
KVM-over-IP (hardware device) is likely a more common approach because if you need video, might as well have BIOS access.
There may be something in the virtualization space where the hypervisor provides a remote desktop, but I’m not familiar with this space. A quick search for proxmox and remote desktop yielded mostly results for guest OS setups instead of at the host layer.
If you want punishment go for NixOS!
But once it clicks you have a fully declarative setup**. I edit a file, activate, commit to git. On another system, pull, activate.
** The config system is expansive but not exhaustive. I still have to login to Slack, pick my theme, etc. My VPN on the other hand is just ready credentials and all.
I never have to remember the 100 little tweaks I made, every tweak is in git. Noise canceling pipewire filter, what software I had installed, service configurations, secret management, disk partitions, all portable between different systems.
A lighter introduction is probably home manager, works in any Linux system or macOS. Manages your home directory as the name implies.
You can also go lighter with a repo flake.nix and a devShell. Its like a generic virtual environment. Auto activate with direnv. A step up from a devShell would be https://devenv.sh/ which tracks more like home manager with configurable modules. A devShell is really a bash script with these programs available from Nix.
I couldn’t go without LSPs these days.
Real time diagnostics. Jump to implementation. Code actions.
Its just so much faster and my code rarely doesn’t run on first try outside of logic errors, but it still runs.
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim was nice back in the day, but neovim and the plugin ecosystem takes it to another level.
Edit: I agree with you on git when learning. I’m old, over 15 years of experience on it. I don’t have anything to gain typing the same handful of commands I use everyday.
Vim/Konsole are an Apples to Oranges comparison. Modern TUIs are closer in feature parity. Personally I use Zellij with NeoVim and LazyVim as the base config. If you use an LLM, customization becomes easier.
Personal preferences are personal preferences though if VSCode is working for you.
Neovim. Also there for the plugin ecosystem. Some popular feature rich presets, all customizable.
https://www.lazyvim.org/ https://astronvim.com/ https://nvchad.com/
Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you’re stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).
https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync - Android rclone port.
Its done on a schedule but I backup once a day to backblaze b2 using my own keys for full e2ee by wrapping the b2 remote with a crypto remote. Been set it and forget it for about 3 years. Supports many other cloud or self hosted remotes.
Its not in any store last I checked. I use https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium to manage installing and updating.
https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/requirements-file-format/
Looking at the format it supports bare, pinned, or version ranges.
I imagine ranges are preferred for libraries as you’d hit version conflicts if the same dependency showed up twice with different pinned versions in the dependency tree.
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/dependency-resolution/#backtracking
The post suggests that during backtracking the maximum version considered for any dependency must be a certain age to reduce the attack surface of malicious releases assuming the vulnerability will be caught within the desired window.
Thanks for sharing! I will have to try this out on a project. Matches many of my own workflow habits, and more importantly, how I train devs on my team. Commit often, don’t care if its broken, the pipeline will fix the history. They can truly stump me with how they get into the train wrecks they find themselves in. Committing conflicts sounds like a super power to help them out.
@RareBird15 @programming @linux @selfhosted
Ones I haven’t seen mentioned (unless it came in while I was typing this).
https://github.com/kainctl/isd - Interactive systemd.
https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij - tmux alternative. Built in which-key functionality. I initially switched to it because I like large scrollback buffers and tmux was super slow at resizing window panes. Can open buffers in nvim for better search. Nicer TUI if you don’t mind a little bloat / bling.
https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless - Work on stacked commits. Instead of opening PRs linerally you work on several commits at once with the expectation each commit will be a PR. Promotes smaller PRs that are easier to review to complete a feature. Often when doing that linerally you may discover a bad choice made earlier and have to reverse course and refactor. With a branchless workflow you go back and forth on commits so the final stack of PRs doesn’t include those reverse course refactors. git sl has some nice TUI graphs of your stack.
https://github.com/mystor/git-revise - Split, rearrange commits. Works nicely with git-branchless.
https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb - Reflect changes from a commit backwards. Also works well with a branchless workflow.
If I’m honest I just develop linerally and use an AI agent/skill to restack using the 3 programs above to erase pivot / refactor points and to group logical blocks into an easy to review PR.
https://github.com/ymtdzzz/otel-tui - Open Telemetry viewer.
https://github.com/brocode/fblog - JSON Lines viewer.
https://github.com/aristocratos/btop - Better top.
https://github.com/jandedobbeleer/oh-my-posh - Terminal prompt. My daily driver.
https://starship.rs/ - Another terminal prompt. Played with a little but never got around to giving it my full attention to match my oh-my-posh setup.
https://rclone.org/ - Remote backups using my own encryption key. Supports many cloud providers.
https://github.com/Mic92/nix-fast-build - Not sure its really faster but has a nicer TUI.
https://dircolors.com/ - Directory listing colors in terminal output to better distinguish file types. At a glance I can distinguish read-only, executables, symlinks, directories, etc.
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit - Git TUI. I only use in neovim though, don’t think I’ve ever run it directly.
https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim - Better merge conflict handling in neovim.
https://www.lazyvim.org/ - Base neovim config with lots of TUI sugar.
https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim - File tree explorer in neovim with editing capabilities. Hands down the most efficient way I’ve found to normallize torrent file names. Fixing 5+ seasons of a show takes a few minutes if you know the right vim keybinds.
https://github.com/getsops/sops / https://github.com/mic92/sops-nix - Encrypt secrets in git repos.
https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting - Syntax highlighting as you type shell commands.
https://github.com/luccahuguet/yazelix - Opinionated Yazi, Helix, Zellij setup with custom patches to integrate. Looks interesting but could never get to work with nix as it keeps trying to write to store paths. They even have a flake.nix in the repo…
less - Less shitty more (terminal pager) with the options below.
export LESS="-aRix2 --use-color --mouse --wheel-lines=3"
export SYSTEMD_LESS="$LESS"
# a = search from current position
# i = case insensitive
# x2 = tabstop
# R = color control chars show color
https://pnpm.io/ - Better monorepo support than npm. Faster too. Easy to patch dependencies.
https://bun.sh/ / https://deno.com/ - Alternate node runtimes. Only have used bun, but its a faster cold start and uses less memory.
https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter.html - eslint clone in rust. Seconds versus minutes. Uses the golang TypeScript 7 preview version of typescript-eslint for type checking.
https://rolldown.rs/ - Rust clone of the rollup JS/TS bundler.
https://ast-grep.github.io/ - Grep AST patterns. Written in rust.
https://dprint.dev/ - Formatter that unifies other formatters. Lots of fast rust plugins.
https://biomejs.dev/ - Rust based node formatter. dprint support.
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff - Rust based python linter and formatter. dprint support.
https://github.com/numtide/treefmt - Like dprint, forwards to other formatters, but intended for nix declarative setups (for use with devshell or devenv).
https://direnv.net/ / https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv - Activate a virtual environment when you enter a directory. Common with nix devshell/devenv but can run any command. Auto reload based on certain files via watch patterns.
https://github.com/mikesart/inotify-info - Debug why you’ve maxed out file watchers.
https://github.com/lyonel/lshw / https://github.com/pciutils/pciutils - Detailed hardware info.
https://github.com/wagoodman/dive - TUI to explore docker layers.
https://github.com/containers/skopeo - Bunch of utilities for working with docker images and registries.
cash cant be traced
I think this is a feature, not a bug. You assume the risk in exchange for some privacy assuming you don’t deanonymize yourself on the return address.
You could print a random letter or graphic(s), preferably on heavier paper
I was expecting this at the first half of the sentence: https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html
Don’t know if they can. If I’m recalling correctly he holds enough Class B shares to retain supermajority voting power.
Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.
Sounds like an origin story for recursion.
NixOS. Started with Yellow Dog Linux in 1998.
I don’t do everything through nix’s derivation system.
Many of my configs are just an outOfStoreSymlink to my configs in the same dotfiles repos. I don’t need every change wrapped in a derivation. Neovim is probably the largest. A few node projects for automations I’m fine using pnpm to manage. Nix still places everything but I can tweek those configs and commit in the same repo without a full blown activation.
Items are in a hash table using color/material type/shape as the hashing method optimized for human pattern recognition providing O(1) access. The table is smaller than the number of items causing some collisions. Those items are in a randomly sorted vector. Average case is still around O(1) with an O(n) worst case.
Something like https://graphite.com/ to create stacked PRs that are reviewable probably would have helped. Can be replicated with local LLMs or remote AI providers with locally configured agentic workflows. Never used graphite personally, but I’ve seen some open source maintainers use it to split up large PRs.
Like, from Yellow Dog Linux? Was my first Linux distro as a kid (grew up with an Apple computer). Red Hat based so checks out. TIL.
https://xkcd.com/993/