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Pragtical Editor v3.8.2 Released

rd07 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:52:34 +0000

Article URL: https://pragtical.dev/blog/pragtical-v382-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760865

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rd07 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

rd07 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:13:01 +0000

Funny that at the last minute of 2025 (at least in my country), I wrote a blog post titled "2025 is the Year of Linux Desktop, at least for me".

It is just a short post to note about how in 2025 some of my friends are finally migrating to Linux. And that was something awesome for me.

https://blog.juliardi.com/2025-is-the-year-of-linux-desktop-...

New comment by rd07 in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

rd07 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:24:07 +0000

thanks for proving my prediction

New comment by rd07 in "Pragtical Editor v3.8.0 add Canvas API and Image Viewer feature"

rd07 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:20:51 +0000

Many fixes and new features like the image viewer, built-in color picker, support for drawing polygons, introduction of a canvas api and experimental live search!

Pragtical Editor v3.8.0 add Canvas API and Image Viewer feature

rd07 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:20:51 +0000

Article URL: https://pragtical.dev/blog/pragtical-v380-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284374

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rd07 in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

rd07 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:55:17 +0000

A little tip for your next visit to Jakarta :

- Indonesia is a tropical country, and Jakarta is in the vicinity of the sea, so depending on the month of year, it can rain anytime on the day. So, if you are not comfortable with rain, always use a taxi/grab/gocar to go around.

- If you are pressed for time, I suggest you use airport train to go to the airport. At least you won't get stuck on traffic.

- About the noise problem, I think it won't be a problem if you sleep in a tall building. The last time I go there, I sleep in a relatively good hotel and deliberately choose the higher floor. And the noise doesn't become a problem for me.

Hope this help and you can get a nicer experience on your next visit

New comment by rd07 in "Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night"

rd07 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:32:14 +0000

It is amazing how in under 100 years, we go from first object in space to controlling several spacecrafts in Mars orbit/surface in order to observe a specific object in the sky.

New comment by rd07 in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

rd07 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:26:47 +0000

I know this reference lol

New comment by rd07 in "Resurrect the Old Web"

rd07 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:27:27 +0000

This post really shows at the right time. Recently I've wanted to resurrect my old passion in blogging. Social media makes me burn-out and unproductive. I want the old way of posting in my own blog, writing however long/short I want, and theming my blog however I want.

New comment by rd07 in "macOS Tahoe"

rd07 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:08:50 +0000

This is unrelated, but in Indonesian language, "Tahoe" is a word for tofu but spelled the old way

New comment by rd07 in "Chatbox app is back on the US app store"

rd07 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:03:46 +0000

Chatbox is basically a client for various LLM. It can even connect to locally hosted LLM on Ollama.

New comment by rd07 in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

rd07 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:25:09 +0000

Yes, this is the most likely explanation I can find, not a nationwide blockade.

New comment by rd07 in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

rd07 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:51:02 +0000

I live in Indonesia, and I don't find any recent news that mention X (formerly Twittwr) and or Discord being blocked by the government. The only relevant news from a quick Google search I can find is about the government threatened to block X due to pornography content in 2024. You can even check for yourself if a domain is blocked by visiting https://trustpositif.komdigi.go.id/.

Also for your unability to access the VPN, as far as my experience goes, in the past some providers do block access to VPN. But, I am not experiencing that for at least the last 5 years.

So, maybe you can try changing your internet provider and see if you can connect to VPN?

New comment by rd07 in "How to Firefox"

rd07 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:59:58 +0000

If we are talking about clean firefox setup, I really like the Firefox Gnome Theme (https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme). It really integrates Firefox well with the rest of GNOME apps.

New comment by rd07 in "Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers"

rd07 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:27:04 +0000

Nice article here, really enjoys the explanation. As a web developer, system programming or in this case developing a device driver feels like a different world to me. But, after reading this article, I got the impression that it is not that much different to developing a client to an API in web developer's world.

New comment by rd07 in "Matrix v1.15"

rd07 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:06:30 +0000

There is also Neochat from KDE, not fully featured like Element and E2E Encryption still experimental the last time I checked, but it is a nice alternative if you want a non-Electron client.

New comment by rd07 in "HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux"

rd07 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:33:14 +0000

I have wanted to try HeidiSQL before, but the lack of Linux version stopped me. Now, that it releases a Linux version, I think it is time to try it. Currently, I am using DbGate (daily) and DBeaver (occasionally). Feature-wise, DBeaver is better than DbGate, but it is slower than DbGate. Now let's see if Heidi is better than those two.

New comment by rd07 in "LineageOS 22"

rd07 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:55:48 +0000

Not TS, but I have similar thought to him. Just recently, I bought a used Samsung A52 4G phone, which is supported by LineageOS.

I am not a LineageOS user, but I own a 5 year old Xiaomi phone. The latest Android version for that phone from Xiaomi is stuck at Android 9. It now runs Android 13 on /e/OS, a fork of LineageOS, and I have a good experience with it.

New comment by rd07 in "Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#"

rd07 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:50:17 +0000

We have similar experience with VB6, though I was the opposite. Instead of reading a book about BASIC, I was reading a book about VB.NET.

My first interaction with Visual Basic was through VBA in MS Word. The first time I opened it, I know that it was a place to code, but I don't know what kind of code I have to type. I don't know any programming language at that time.

And then sometimes later, I found a VB.NET book at a bookstore. I was overjoyed at that time, and immediately tried it on VBA to be dejected because the code didn't run at all. I still remember how I several times, until I swear that if the last trial I do also didn't run, I will give up. Fortunately, it does run!!!

Turns out, I didn't know that the VBA on MS Word in my computer is based on VB 6 while my book is about VB.NET. The code is a little different, and that's why my code didn't run.

After that, I bought every book I can find about VB 6. I also somehow stumble upon a VB 6 IDE installation on my relatives CD stash, and installed it on my computer.

And till today, I still think that VB 6 GUI Builder is the best I have ever tried.

New comment by rd07 in "Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor"

rd07 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:46:47 +0000

Lite XL which is a project Pragtical forked on has been tested to run on browser. You can try it here :

https://lite-xl.com/playground/