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Scoop-Core
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WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
Shovel, a fork of scoop, is being maintained however. https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core
- WinGet is terrible. I want AppGet back
Conkey
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Most of my programs were written for my own use, including:
• A keyboard layout to type numerous non-English letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols, originally for Windows but subsequently ported to Linux and Mac [https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey]
• A ‘sound change applier’ for my hobby of language construction, to simulate the process of historical sound change [https://bradrn.com/brassica/]
• A small browser extension to save the full text of all webpages I visit, and a local client to search the database [not open-sourced, apologies!]
The first two have gained a few other users since being released, but I’m pretty sure I’m still the one who uses them the most!
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?
I made my own crossplatform multilingual layout [0]. Although it’s based on QWERTY, it shouldn’t be hard to remap the Linux and Mac versions to any other base layout, since they’re autogenerated from the Windows version.
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Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
The biggest one for me is undoubtedly my custom keyboard layout Conkey [0], which I use constantly (including for typing this very comment). I hate the way the base US layout tends to get distorted in other keyboard layouts with good support for non-ASCII characters, so Conkey had the explicit goal of retaining that basic unshifted layout. I’ve also ended up porting Conkey to Mac and Linux — and given that I’m slowly switching from Windows to Linux, at least the Linux ports have ‘scratched my own itch’ too, which is nice.
Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot. (I haven’t attempted to open-source it, though — it consists of three entirely separate components, two of which were a pain to set up. I must try to get it into a more usable state one of these days.)
What else… my sound change applier [1], perhaps? Not that I use it very much, because I only need it on those occasions when I want to do some conlanging, which I haven’t had much time for recently. Actually, sound change appliers strike me as being very much a ‘scratch own itch’ type of project in general… sometimes it feels like every conlanger has written their own, and no two can agree on a nice design. Everyone just has their own unique preferred way of doing things.
- WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
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A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)
I wrote myself a very similar keyboard layout: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey. It differs in being primarily oriented towards linguistics rather than maths, but I’ve ended up being able to type most of the same symbols as with this one.
To port my keyboard layout [0] to OSX, I used ‘osxkb’ [1], which outputs an OSX keyboard layout bundle given a simple textual specification file. It was originally created specifically to port Conkey to OSX, but should be entirely usable for other purposes as well.
What are some alternatives?
Shovel-Ash258 - Personal Shovel bucket with a wide variety of applications of all kinds.
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
Versions - 📦 A Scoop bucket for alternative versions of apps.
oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
Main - 📦 The default bucket for Scoop.
ScienceNotes - Just a keyboard for science notes on a Mac
https-bot - Find http urls that can be safely replaced by https url
rofimoji - Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes
wincompose - 🔣 Compose Key for Windows
9ime - Plan 9's unicode input method ported to windows