Programming Leftovers
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Stefan Zweifel ☛ On Founding the Swiss Laravel Association
Right now we're focused on organsing the next events in January and February 2025.
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James G ☛ Let’s replace “user experience” with human experience
In an Appendix on the “Roots of the Desktop Interface,” those original guidelines say:
In the early 1960s, the Augmentation Research Project at SRI International made important contributions. Its focus was the “augmentation of human intellect.” This notion put the human being, rather than technology, at the center of human-computer interactions and resulted in some unique concepts of what a human interface should be.
People should be at the centre of technology, as noted in the above quotation.
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Antoine Kalmbach ☛ A command line diary user interface using FZF
Some years ago I kept dreaming about a simplistic terminal diary manager. Each diary entry would be a markdown file called YYYYMMMDDD.md, they would be viewed in the terminal using a Markdown renderer, and they would be edited using $EDITOR. A keybinding would allow for creating a new entry for today, and so forth. The UI would look something like this: [...]
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Undeadly ☛ Game of Trees 0.105 released
Version 0.105 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated).
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Rlang ☛ How to Keep Certain Columns in Base R with subset(): A Complete Guide
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Python
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TecMint ☛ Top 7 Python OCR Libraries for Text Extraction from Images
This article will cover the top seven OCR libraries in Python, highlighting their strengths, unique features, and code examples to help you get started.
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Simon Willison ☛ PyPI now supports digital attestations
This has been in the works for a while, and is another component of PyPI's approach to supply chain security for Python packaging - see PEP 740 – Index support for digital attestations for all of the underlying details.
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Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
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Caleb Hearth ☛ Using Starship for the Same Prompt, but Faster
Starship is a highly-configurable, cross-shell prompt. I recently switched to using it and it sped up my prompt rendering from being noticably slow and taking probably half a second to render to an imperceptible 0.03s rendering time. It actually does slightly more than my old prompt did as well even in that time.
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