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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
notebook
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My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information
I mostly read HN. Unfortunately is like drinking from a firehose.. My take to stay sane:
- If it's interesting I upvote. If it's really interesting I bookmark on my browser. This still means ~20 links weekly..
- Once a week I copy/paste browser bookmarks to my markdown file[0] At least every month I tree shake them. Time passes and some stuff are not so relevant/interesting anymore. Eventually they move to my notebook[1] or to my news aggregator[2].
[0] https://github.com/slowernews/hamster-system
[1] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
[2] https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews
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Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Friedโs Downfall
Languages of top 100 crypto projects: https://github.com/slowernews/notebook/blob/master/on-crypto...
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Digital Gardening
Feel free to post your digital garden under - to not pollute this thread (garden) too much.
There are different kinds of digital gardens. Mine[0] lives on Github, it evolves slowly these days but is well tendered and organized, some juicy fruit and vegetables. You may find some weeds also. Weeds are flowers too if you get to know them.
[0] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
- Ask HN: What are some examples of websites where the author learns in the open?
- Programming languages of crypto projects
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Ask HN: Show us your digital garden
I (and many of you) keep a "digital garden"[0] with an amalgamation of assorted/random notes/list/cheatsheets on stuff it interest me on that moment or on long term. I suspect many of you have one also. It would be interesting to see how are they organized.
[0] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
- Crypto Languages
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based.cooking
My cooking notes go into a github repository[0] as soon as they are systematised.
[0] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook/blob/master/on-cookin...
computer
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Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
gs (ghostscript), mutool, ocrmypdf...
To add/remove: mutool merge -h
To split PDF pages: mutool poster -h
I made a script here that I use frequently for scanned documents: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/bin/pdf_...
Shrink PDFs: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf
(or switch prepress to ebook to shrink more)
or to really shrink, b&w only:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sProcessColorModel=DeviceGray -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dDownsampleColorImages=true -dOverrideICC -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dColorImageResolution=120 -dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dGrayImageResolution=120 -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dMonoImageResolution=120 -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf
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Ask HN: Why does GNU Stow (et al.) exist?
I've been putting my whole home folder under git for almost a year [1].
I haven't seen any other repos on GitHub with a similar layout. Why do people rely on GNU Stow and other complicated tools to essentially do what git does? I haven't noticed any performance problems with just using git.
[1]. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/
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A browser plugin that shows you which search results require a login to use their services before you even click on them
with these settings: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.github/firefox/ublacklist-settings.json
- I'm new to termux, so suggest me what cool stuff to use termux for.
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My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information
The problem with a lot of these tools is there is no incremental escape hatch. I had 25,000 tabs last year which I saved as a line delimited text file.
Then every day I automate opening 7 tabs and I force myself to get through them. Sometimes it takes 2 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour. Sometimes it ends with me adding 50 more links to the text file. Sometimes the tabs are garbage but often they are worthwhile.
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/...
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/...
But over the past year I've gone through 2,555 tabs! So it seems like it is working. Maybe in 10 years I'll reach tab zero
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Script suggestion post!
autocrop.lua
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Yet another yt-dlp linux script
I started doing this with my phone and it made formatting my phone painless. The hardest part is getting started. I still haven't added all my config files to git; I have a daily script that will remove one line from my home directory gitignore so I can incrementally add config files. And it has already brought me a lot of peace of mind even if I'm only like 30% of the way done on the desktop.
What are some alternatives?
based.cooking - A simple culinary website.
hamster-system - Ultra-simple framework to organize your life.
kiss-cooking - Stupid Simple Site for Cooking Recipes
tabist - Simple Tab Manager Extension for Chrome and Firefox.
hamsterbase - self-hosted, local-first web archive application.
evafast - mpv script for hybrid fastforward and seeking