Anyway here is my app of shame:

https://kelvie.github.io/chord-finder/

I also came to the realization after making this that my time was better spent transcribing, but I wanted to learn egui (and this was before coding agents, so it actually took some time).

It was mostly precipitated by when containers came in and I was honestly shocked at how fast apk installs packages on alpine compared to my Ubuntu boxes (using apt)

Still wouldn't work without it though (I run Niri at home)

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I authored a patch (I still use it to this day, and I think others do too) that allows this, and sent it to the LKML as an RFC, and was rejected, for some background.

Anecdotally a lot of managers use Emacs, though that may be an age thing.

(I use emacs for Real Work, unless that Real Work involves a JVM. Still do all the git stuff in emacs/magit, though)

I've been on Linux for so long now, that being able to just play a MIDI file without making a bunch of decisions about soundfonts and synthesizers [1] just seems mind-blowing to me now.

Part of me wishes that just by default, mpv or something would just pick a softsynth and just play it (like WMP here) rather than have me install a separate program, pick a sound font, invoke it in some weird way to let it know what soundfont I want, and not even be able to seek back and forth.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MIDI#List_of_SoundFonts

I have the xreal air 1, and have the xreal one's on order, they seem to be the leader in this space with their on-glasses processing for "anchor" mode.

I got these primarily to start gaming, but really, I just use the one hour of downtime before bed to do side projects (usually coding) while laying down, and it's been great. And the spouse does not complain about the bright screen.

Another advantage is that the muscles around my elbows are a lot less sore, as a laptop really isn't ergonomic to stare down into, unless you build one with a much taller screen [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIm6Dhxn3Ak

I also only use a single monitor, trying to plug a second monitor in makes it work less than ideally, and I really wish there was drag + drop support like most other tilers, but for me it's not worth giving up the rest of KDE.

For this particular use case, you can use `uvx`, which is a shorthand for `uv tool run`, which is a great alternative for installing random python tools in isolation.

Such as this one. Or for example, python-kasa (for controlling TP Kasa plugs) or esphome (the build script)

Prior to doing this, it was either manage virtualenvs (one for each tool), or rely on a mess of Arch packages.

Annoying during a power outage though.

The glasses claim a 1080p screen, but realistically with text, you gotta scale it up to be more like a 720p screen.

If 1280x720 is good enough to code on for you, then you're fine, and it's certainly fine for some (e.g. I think some of my co-workers have vision problems so they set the font to be mega large, but code just fine).

Which is surprisingly hard to find for a portable (usb-C) battery.

I watched it for the game trailers, actually shocked that it's also superbowl viewership territory.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/game-awards-2023-break...

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451109

I wonder how hard this is to patch.