Hacker News: kal247

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?"

kal247 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:10:40 +0000

Some suggestions here : https://european-alternatives.eu/

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?"

kal247 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:07:46 +0000

Mac OS Platinum theme.

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

kal247 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:17:06 +0000

I keep my bookmarks where they belong (usually in browser, with tags). I search interactively in a terminal (with a custom script and alias). It works well to select and open topic-related bookmarks at once.

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: What kind of personal software improved your life?"

kal247 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:19:04 +0000

uBlock Origin

New comment by kal247 in "Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web"

kal247 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:45:45 +0000

I do something similar with interactive fuzzy search (CLI), and the search experience is quite good for me, even with limited tagging. Links contain a lot a useful information...

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: Best thing you've made in CLI"

kal247 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:12:31 +0000

Interactive fuzzy search of bookmarks, with multiple selection (thanks to fzf). Various sources (browsers, files) and URI schemes are supported.

Bookmarks should stay where they belong. I wrote this script to avoid duplicating them to another database/file (as most bookmark managers do).

Tip : macOS `open` command handles URI schemes, meaning it's possible to search, select and open at once links for http, ssh, ftp, local directories, etc..

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

New comment by kal247 in "Actually Portable Perl"

kal247 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:58:46 +0000

If it does what I think it does, then you've found the holy grail.

New comment by kal247 in "Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro"

kal247 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 19:41:46 +0000

Yes, I have completely given up actually.

New comment by kal247 in "Not Your Grandfather’s Perl"

kal247 — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:49:57 +0000

There's a "strings" implementation in the PerlPowerTools : https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools

New comment by kal247 in "Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?"

kal247 — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:20:06 +0000

> What I do miss is a way to back them up from the command line.

I've written a Perl script that print bookmarks from Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Edge as <url><description>, but maybe it's too raw.<p><a href="https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks</a><p>I might add other formatting options (HTML or Template Toolkit) if there's enough interest.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by kal247 in "Vim Color Schemes"</h1> <p>kal247 — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:22:24 +0000</p> <p>+1 for the only solution providing consistent colors across various terminals without wasting your time (I chose noctu.vim).</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by kal247 in "Show HN: App:bookmarks – Export browser bookmarks as plain text"</h1> <p>kal247 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:52:49 +0000</p> <p>First (hobby) project that I really finish and use. This tool extracts bookmarks from Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Edge/... and simply prints them to stdout as <title><url><description>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Show HN: App:bookmarks – Export browser bookmarks as plain text</h1> <p>kal247 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:44:54 +0000</p> <p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks">https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421423">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421423</a></p> <p>Points: 2</p> <p># Comments: 1</p> </article> </main></body></html>