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New comment by vanous in "Glyph Protocol for Terminals"

vanous — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:02:58 +0000

This is much needed, thanks!

New comment by vanous in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

vanous — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:10:18 +0000

Looks great. Not FLOSS.

New comment by vanous in "Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer"

vanous — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:17:37 +0000

> error-prone to set a 30-second timer. Oops, I’m tired and I hit zero too many times. That’s a 3-minute (3:00) timer. I typed in 3-0 correctly, but hitting the start button didn’t quite register. Siri misheard. Siri took 10 seconds to respond about a 30 second timer.

I get the diy factor, but still, the smartphone was supposed to be smart...

New comment by vanous in "Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground"

vanous — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:32:50 +0000

@Zigtools:

Thank you for your educative post, letting the community know.

Don't let it to drag you down in any way. This is emotionally draining and takes away motivation, but keep going.

New comment by vanous in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

vanous — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:53:41 +0000

I love using uv and would be supper happy if it allowed me not only to add and remove

uv add package

uv remove package

But also to upgrade a package and upgrade all packages in the pyproject.toml . The uv sync --upgrade can already do this in uv.lock , but not in pyproject.toml

New comment by vanous in "OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps"

vanous — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:37:41 +0000

Do note that mapy.cz is not open source and that they started moving more and more features into their subscription based paid offering... The beginning of enshittification.

New comment by vanous in "Vim Macros for Beancount"

vanous — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:08:25 +0000

Glad you find it useful. Below is an example script to demonstrate the concept. It is awesomely powerful. In vim, select some text and do this:

  :'<,'>! ./example.py

  #!/bin/env python3
  #:'<,'>! ./example.py # ← this is how to use it
  import sys
  data = sys.stdin.readlines()
  for l in data:
    l = l.replace("a", "e").rstrip()
    print(l)

New comment by vanous in "Vim Macros for Beancount"

vanous — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:58:36 +0000

Very cool! A while ago i did something similar and tried to learn vim more in depth by creating some more complex macros - several of them, to convert some text snippets into markdown. Problem was, that several months later i could not exactly remember some details of these "reusable" macros - where exactly to place cursor when starting them, the order of execution and so on. Thankfully, vim has the amazing ability to run commands/script on text selection, so i rewrote my macros in a scripting language. It has several bonus points: i can store them in git and track changes, code can be self-documented via comments. My macros were not too complex, but still, using a proper scripting ended up being much better.

New comment by vanous in "Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs"

vanous — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:29:36 +0000

Dash doesn't seem to be open source, plus it's a subscription model. Nothing against that, but OPs solution is MIT licensed.

New comment by vanous in "Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr"

vanous — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:18:05 +0000

Nice effort!

All these tools teach typing and looking at the typed text. Only few programs make physical separation between the source and the typed text or do hide the text currently typed. Try it... yet another level... :)

New comment by vanous in "Learn touch typing – it's worth it"

vanous — Sat, 31 May 2025 06:38:00 +0000

Agree. I wish the school system wouldn't ignore it as it does in many places.

Even with touch devices, to gain productivity, i see people to switch to keyboard input because pen or touch aren't fast enough and voice typing isn't possible for example in auditoriums.

But, don't learn to type quicker, learn to type precisely. Speed will come.

New comment by vanous in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

vanous — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:51:21 +0000

Absolutely. https://ublockorigin.com/

New comment by vanous in "How to help us build open source Pebble software"

vanous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:17:34 +0000

Long battery life

Apps/watchfaces SDK and app store

Smart replies (i.e. reply to sms)

Display visibility outside

New comment by vanous in "Beej's Guide to Git"

vanous — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:23:26 +0000

> GitHub is a web-based front-end to Git.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

208 mentions of GitHub.

4 mentions of Gitea.

3 mentions of GitLab.

Why is it so biased and why is it helping to continue to teach people to centralized git.

New comment by vanous in "Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world"

vanous — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:09:22 +0000

Počítá

New comment by vanous in "Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world"

vanous — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:08:20 +0000

Interestingly enough, searching for ě on the page finds the ĕ as well, but so does search for e...

New comment by vanous in "Kokoro TTS – A lightweight (82M params) text-to-speech model"

vanous — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:21:29 +0000

And it's not offline.

New comment by vanous in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

vanous — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:49:43 +0000

A while back nobody would believe that Google's search dominance could be disturbed... and now many have either switched away or stopped using search altogether. It takes me two clicks to set a search to DDG, Kagi or other and Google has lost this customer (often a family) forever.

So let them be arrogant and loose their YouTube customers over time too.

New comment by vanous in "Pyodide 0.27 Release"

vanous — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:27:07 +0000

Pyodide (a port of CPython to WebAssembly/Emscripten) is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.

Pyodide makes it possible to install and run Python packages in the browser with micropip.

Version 0.27 brings: improvements to the longterm future of Pyodide, speedups, more packages, decoupling of the build system and more.

Pyodide 0.27 Release

vanous — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:22:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pyodide.org/posts/0.27-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598407

Points: 4

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