On writing some blog posts about things I’ve built lately (both at work and in my own time). Helps a lot with diving more deeply into topics than what’s reasonable for a “just needs to work” implementation.

Recently, a fairly detailed one on doing something semi-obscure with directory services on AWS. https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/sadwsp.html

Love the domain name! I should start blogging as well. Seems like it would help in a similar way as teaching others.

Vaguely related (also “ping, but with a graph”, but different): https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping

I’ve been using https://github.com/samschott/maestral instead of Dropbox’s client for the last year or so and it’s been rock-solid.

Works very well indeed. The only thing I miss is the ability to easily create public links from the GUI.

TIL it is possible from the command line, so perhaps I can make it work with Automator.

Anything like this for Google Drive? That client also used to be good but has become complete bloated trash in recent years.

It seems like all chat, conference, and collaboration software must devolve into bloated slow buggy trash over time.

https://rclone.org/ is only like maestral if you squint hard enough, but it does support Google Drive (and Dropbox).

This looks quite cool.

A blog post on how to make your Bash history more useful: https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/history.html

Neat.

Simple way to track time spent on projects that is resilient to user forgetfulness. Much better than collecting timestamps from git commits. Could be interesting to merge with git history and measure how productivity (some combo of bash activity and git activity and lines-of-code/Kolmogorov-complexity) change with time-of-day, season, weather, etc.

# store timestamps

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

# append immediately (affects timestamps?)

PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND; history -a"

# do not limit .bash_history file size

export HISTFILESIZE=""

# append mode (collect from multiple shells)

shopt -s histappend

# multi-line commands as single record

shopt -s cmdhist

Since everyone's sharing their implementation of "slides, but written in Markdown", here's mine: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides

It's perhaps unique in that it doesn't require any sort of build process – inheriting its approach from Markdeep (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/), it's just an HTML file (containing your Markdown content and a few <script> tags at the bottom) and a bit of JS/CSS.

This is so nice. One feature I would like to see in web presentation tools where we can run multiple browsers in different location with participant view, synced with the view what presenter is showing. Can save a ton of bandwidth then by not having to share the screen and not having to need video streaming.

For reveal.js, there's the multiplex[0] plugin that can synchronize views.

[0]: https://github.com/reveal/multiplex

I see that we're sharing our lists of magical FFmpeg incantations – here's mine: https://github.com/doersino/ffmpeg-koraktor

TIL about "until" loops! How neat.

Wow, that's a fun tool! Very enjoyable to play with. Thank you for making it.

You're very welcome!

> I love the choice of keeping the symbols opaque - it makes it easier to use in a funny way.

That's precisely what I was going for (plus, it's impossible to find descriptive icons for most of these options, and a wall of text below each option might lead to excessive scroll wheel wear).

> I’m very surprised to not see it on the front page! Have you posted this to /r/internetisbeautiful?

Getting to the front page is a coin flip – you win some, you lose some. But perhaps I'll submit it to the second chance pool [1]. And no, I've mostly weaned myself off Reddit, but you're right, that sounds like a good place to gather some additional feedback. I've just posted UJI there [2].

> Honestly this is wonderful and I hope to use it to introduce some creative coding concepts when teaching

I'm so glad to hear this! :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/nk7gf7...