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Nikita
In the past, I’ve really wanted to try out other search engines: Mojeek, Kagi, Ecosia; but there was one thing that made me stay with DuckDuckGo — the Bangs. Well, not any more! Introducing #interro: https://codeberg.org/kytta/interro interro is a shim for your search engine that enables DDG Bangs, but better! Instead of routing your requests via DDG, it loads all Bangs into memory and handles redirects locally. You can use any search engine as fallback.
Nikita
Another useful feature: Custom bangs! You can create bangs for any website you want. I’ve deployed a test instance, so you can try and see how it works: https://interro.deno.dev/. On this one, the fallback search is Mojeek, and there is a special bang `!ky` that will search the contents of my website. The page is very much WIP; interro was built to be used from the browser’s search bar 😅 
Ian Wagner 🦀 :freebsd: :osm:
@kytta ha; nice! I also love the bangs. Fortunately Brave copied most of them. 
Nikita
No. that's a paywall. If I can't see content without giving you something (in this case, personal data,) then it is a paywall. 
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@exador23 
Bowreality
@exador23 Still a paywall my friends. Payment doesn’t have to be money. I would close the tab. 
Nikita
 @geerlingguy I wonder if they consider renaming Ansible to EBCDICble?
Nikita
I get sad when I find a cool tech person online and find out they don't use Mastodon
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Jon_Alper
@ambrwlsn @lisamelton Then are they *really* a cool tech person? (Unless they’re SO cool they use no social media at all… but uncool people being allowed to make the social rules has cruelly made that untenable.) 
Sasha Chudesnov
@ambrwlsn Most cool tech people I know use Mastodon. I myself, however, am not that much of a cool tech person, and neither are most of my friends online, so we're stuck to be using Xitter
Nikita
The voyager stuff is cool, but where are the hard debugging details. How did they isolate the problem to that specific chip? They're moving the logic somewhere else, cool. Is it replacing/diminishing other functionality? Was voyager created/born with the ability to hotfix software or was that hacked on. Don't leave me hanging! Turn this into a Netflix drama
Nikita
 Very rough draft here: Feedback appreciated!
Nikita
Haha! Apparently, some people celebrate a new "web day" — JS Naked Day. It's 4/24 and this is heck smart. 😂 👇  
Andreas Steinkellner
@stefan I think it's an awesome idea that urges people to think about creating awesome pages without heavily relying on JavaScript. If it's not an actual web app, JavaScript should only ever be progressive enhancement for an existing page.
Nikita
My fellow devs, I need your opinion: Say, you have a software project. To do some operations more quickly, you write helper scripts. Think `build.sh`, `download_dependencies.py`, whatever. You may use them yourself or in CI. What is your directory name of choice for these scripts? See next post for clarification. Anonymous poll
Poll
./scripts
13
72.2%
./script
1
5.6%
./build
1
5.6%
something else (plz reply)
18 people voted. 3
16.7%
Voting ended 15 April at 9:59.
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Григорий Клюшников
I would put them into the root directory. For additional things that one would run manually, e.g. code generation or validation, I use ./tools. ./build in my mind is where intermediate build artifacts go because that's what Android Studio does.  
Nikita
Coming back to a #JavaScript project after 1–2 months of not working on it. `pnpm up` reports ~150 updated dependencies out of 875. And those are just minor/patch updates. I feel like JS developers get punished if they don’t release daily 🙄
Nikita
A lifehack for @AntennaPod users! 1. Go to the app settings for AntennaPod Now you can open Apple and Google #Podcast URLs in AntennaPod, which saves some steps when you want to add a new podcast :blobcatheadphones:   
MereCivilian :mastodon:
@kytta @AntennaPod Thank you Nikita 🙏 I can confirm, this also works with Pocket Casts on Android
Nikita
I haven’t talked about the whole #Redis situation when it happened, but I really have to get my thoughts out on this. Better late than never, I guess. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/redis-were-right/ Stick to the end of the post for a special announcement from my side.   
Nikita
You know the spring has come when you finally see grey geese hanging out at parks with cherry blossoms all around them 🪿🌸
Nikita
I love listening to #podcasts, but it's not my number 1 source of entertainment. As such, I only get to listen to them when I can't watch videos or write code, which is usually my job commute. When I started working full-time, I finally got the opportunity to process my listening queue. Well, 2024 hasn't been that productive, so far. I started working remotely, then I went on a holiday, and then I got sick, so I'm back to 100 episodes, 3+ days of listening 🙃
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Nikita
In a perfect world, this would be my to-do list: - finish the 10+ open-source side projects I'm actively thinking about My days don't have enough hours in them :blobcatdizzy: 
Simon Walters
@kytta I feel I'd enjoy getting into listening to podcasts but I've never put the effort in to find how to do it! 
CactiChameleon9 (Daniel)
@kytta 94.6 hours for me so far this year... We share this minor addiction 😅
Nikita
Unpopular opinion: The new Google login form looks beautiful and it's the best-looking piece of UI design from Google of the last four years. ... yeah the bar is very low 😂 
Yusuf Bouzekri
@kytta I don't get why they're promoting a login page redesign as if it's breaking news though
Nikita
The #JavaScript ecosystem is number 1 when it comes to volatility and fragility. Try building a project made in 2014, and you’ll know what I mean: Gulp doesn’t work, libsass doesn’t compile, etc. Well, today, it was dethroned by #Android (or, should I say, #Gradle). I have spent *hours* to revive a project from 2018 to just bump the targetSdk version. 90% of the time was spent with Gradle not working, even when presented with the same JARs as years ago!
Nikita
Having said that, #C is probably my favourite language/ecosystem combo. Yes, there is no simple `npm install`, and build systems can be cumbersome, but I love how a complete ecosystem bootstrapping is basically `brew install gcc make cmake autoconf`, compiling is fast, and subsequent builds even faster. And you can compile most code from 30 years ago without much hassle.
Григорий Клюшников
Советую не использовать gradle wrapper, это вот прям зло в чистом виде. И вообще ничего кроме самих пакетов SDK не обновлять без необходимости.
Nikita
A question to my fellow #Web developers and designers: How do you handle checkboxes and labels with #RTL? It’s clear to me that their position should be flipped (see image by @shadeed9), but what are your preferred ways of achieving this (with static HTML)? Is `flex-direction: row` a valid approach, or are there other ways I’m missing?  
Michael
@kytta depends on how you implement it: But otherwise flex-direction row together with semantic margins/paddings (padding/margin-inline-start/end) would usually do the trick for me.
Nikita
Main takeaways from #FOSDEM: - the rooms need to be bigger, since I couldn't visit all the talks I wanted to
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Nikita
What began with an 8-hour-long train journey, ended with a wonderful stay in pretty Maastricht. If you ever find yourself travelling from Germany to Brussels (whatever the reason for this may be :blobcatfingerguns:), consider staying here for a day or two. But please, don't be like me, take an ICE and not regional :blobcatdizzy:  |
@cybertailor
Why not meson instead of hatchling AND setuptools?