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• shite

  24 179 7.6 Shell

  The little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell.

  Lovely to hear from you, Andy! Thank you for sharing. It's good to know this work is in fine company :)

  > although it sounds like it has some drawbacks?

  Oh yes. The Xdotool Reload Method emulates keystrokes, so it has... drawbacks... as you put it mildly :)

  It literally does F5, or it fills out a url and hits Enter. cf. this `case` statement: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotre...

  I wanted to keep /mandatory/ moving parts to a minimum in a hand-rolled setup. So I sort of went hardline about avoiding prerequisites like a server process, and especially a JS client. The xdotool trick worked surprisingly well (for the most part), and so I stuck with it!

  > it has been working well in practice for years

  This is the holy grail. I really hope I get years-long stability out of it. Based on my experience so far, I feel good about the long-term odds.

  > I also have a Makefile for incremental rebuilds, but I would really like to replace that with Ninja.

  I was going to write a Makefile at some point. I'll have a look at Ninja. Thanks for the tip!

• zim-desktop-wiki

  163 1,848 8.4 Python

  Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  

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• oil

  234 2,717 9.9 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

  Nice! I also use inotifywait for hot reload when writing https://www.oilshell.org/

  I never heard of the xdotool method ... although it sounds like it has some drawbacks?

• karl.berlin

  4 64 4.3 Shell

  My blog and homepage at karl.berlin, as well as the minimal blog engine used to create the pages.

• penis.js

  11 1,299 0.0 JavaScript

  Sure. It's not the coarse language that I object to — it's the lazy, juvenile humour. It's similar to penisJS[0] — a software analogue to children defacing the chairs in their school classrooms with drawings of genitalia.

  I think it's a pretty bad look for the industry.

  Not to say there shouldn't be humour — there should be more humour. Personally, my most popular software projects are purely comedic, and they're also a little more coarse than this.

  To put it another way: I'd prefer the software humour to be a little more Sean Lock and a little less Beavis and Butt-Head.

  [0]: https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/

• bash-toolkit

  3 23 3.6 Shell

  Could be my ever-growing, ever-improving, Swiss Army Toolkit of functions-as-cmd-line-tools and useful-to-me patterns.

  Ah a fellow person of culture :D

  Maybe you will enjoy my "bash-toolkit" repo: https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit which I've dubbed my "Swiss Army Toolkit" of functions-as-cmd-line-tools and useful-to-me patterns.

  Which reminds me, I've collected more and should update the repo!

• clojure-by-example

  1 79 10.0 Clojure

  Workshop for programmers who are new to Clojure. (by adityaathalye)

  Thank you :)

  I started writing a "Goals" and "Anti-Goals" section, as I almost always do for sizeable projects [^]. But then I thought two things, "that's boring", and "waitaminute... when people say 'goals', what do they really want to achieve or fulfill? Dreams and desires.". And so it came to be.

  [^] e.g. https://github.com/adityaathalye/clojure-by-example#workshop...

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