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I've been stuck for years with a bug in my commercial Electron application where images do not get displayed if the folder path has spaces in it :'(
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/issues/667
Any help would be really appreciated!
I nearly gave up on learning newer front-end JavaScript stuff like React & webpack and so on a few years ago because of spaces in paths.
node-gyp doesn't like it when there's a space anywhere in your working path. Stuff I was messing around with was all in ~/Code Projects at the time, and using npm install on some things just broke. Looking back, I definitely could have done a better job parsing the error messages but still...
There's an issue but it was closed in 2018 as "The workaround is to use a path without blanks" https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/439
> Pro tip: rename your development directory
I changed my username to not contain a space because it was too annoying to deal with all the random software breaking. The worst offender was probably npx on Windows [1] (resolved after four years by deprecating npx), but it was far from the only one (though the JS ecosystem was somehow the worst in this regard of all languages I worked with).
1: https://github.com/zkat/npx/issues/100
acme.sh - a shell script that I use to create "Let's Encrypt" SSL certificates - creates and maintains directories with asterisks in them:
https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/1408
This is the sysadmin equivalent of piercing your nose just to make your parents mad.
POSIX portable file names were defined not to have spaces, and just contain '[[:alnum:]_./]'.
The findnl script as part of fslint identifies problematic patterns, and has 4 levels of stringency, with "POSIX" being the most stringent. https://github.com/pixelb/fslint/blob/master/fslint/findnl
I've always thought that personal files, photos, or any other kind of just needed more connections between them to improve my information retrieval experience. That's how I had become a Zettelkasten evangelist. I believed it would be the cure for the information overload disease of our era.
But life made me use Emacs org-mode more and more, and I'm now in love with tags. Retrieving information has become so easy, especially with org-mode's tags inheritance, that I hardly think making connections between headings or notes is necessary anymore[1]. And I believe that applying tags to filenames (a la Karl Voit [2]) will create the same effect
[1] A Zettelkasten-like system is still unbeatable imo when it comes to ideas repositories, i.e. a second brain you can talk to and get new insights. It's just not that great for personal knowledge management or project management.
[2] https://github.com/novoid/filetags