XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (2021)

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  • st

    build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)

  • For those looking for a minimal VT100 terminal emulator without the legacy baggage of Xterm, I highly recommend checking out Suckless Software’s st: https://st.suckless.org/

  • wterm

    st fork for wayland

  • There's this I recalled, but no idea if anything official, doubt it. https://github.com/majestrate/wterm

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Nomad

    Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

  • Nomad[1] is one alternative that gives you the same infra-as-code warm and fuzzies but isn't a behemoth like k8s. It's simple to deploy, simple to operate and unless you're truly scaling big, it probably does everything you need.

    I'm sure there are others in the same league that I don't know about. Maybe I'm just getting old but I'll never understand the rush to use k8s in teams of <100 developers.

    [1] https://www.nomadproject.io/

  • I remember when Phoenix got tabs, it was a killer feature for me because I was using some environment which didn't handle tabs itself (KDE and Windows). It was great not having to deal with a ridiculous amount of window buttons in the task bar.

    But now, we've come full circle. I'm using i3 and adore its tabbed windows feature. However, it's basically impossible to disable tabs in current browsers. Firefox has some extensions [0], which combined with some custom css to hide the tab bar kinda sorta work if you're ok with a janky experience. For Chrome, I haven't found anything.

    [0] I use https://gitlab.com/adsum/firefox-notabs

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