Feb 27, 2022
A dilemma in building terminal apps
Most apps use width poorly, with lots of empty space towards the right.
Long lines of text are also less readable.
So more apps should be using some sort of column layout when the window is wide.
However, narrow columns magnify a different problem: urls can't be clicked on if they span multiple lines.
One possible solution: an escape sequence to hyperlink to urls in shorter text. https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda lists terminals supporting it. Does your terminal?
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Feb 21, 2022
Fun with the kids
git clone https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
cd teliva
make
src/teliva anagrams.tlv
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Feb 19, 2022
I rewrote a section of Teliva's Readme today:
https://github.com/akkartik/teliva#who-are-we-trusting-by-trusting-you
Small change in text: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva/commit/b36927e35cd26
But a big step in a huge trajectory of maturing thinking.
2010: Dependencies are moving parts, introduce unreliability.
2015: Well, we have to depend on something. Ok, hardware only.
2021: Firmware, management engines, shit, I'll come again. Depend on a narrow waist. Posix, C, Lua.
2022: There's even more I can't do alone. Sqlite, Redis, etc. Reputation is a useful signal.
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Feb 12, 2022
It just occurred to me that I can smush the dependencies of two packages together to visualize them at the same time. Here's libcairo2-dev and libsdl2-dev at once.
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Feb 10, 2022
A little Zettelkasten app on Teliva
https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (4 minutes)
Showing off:
Protections against malicious apps.
Incrementally learning about app internals.
How avoiding abstractions can make an app easier to secure. Audit a single function, safely ignore its function calls.
Running on OpenBSD thanks to https://tilde.institute
Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
Open invitation: I'd be happy to tailor a private copy for your individual needs.
Starting to use my Zettelkasten app for reals
As card size grows, the column overflows into two.
As it shrinks, cards are truncated until at just one line tall they turn into a serviceable outline view.
j/k navigate children/parents
h/l navigate between siblings
In this clip:
Growing cards for more details and shrinking them down to outline view (no collapsing subtrees, though)
Structured navigation to children/parents/siblings.
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Feb 6, 2022
Why everyone needs to know some coding: last-mile sandboxing
My talk at FOSDEM this morning: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem
Apologies for the low volume of the recording :/ This copy seems slightly louder to me than the version on the official page. However the official page includes (high-quality and audible) Q&A at the end.
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing
Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
Many thanks to all the organizers of FOSDEM '22!
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Feb 5, 2022
This comment 😂❤️
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220443#30223181
"Third, FOSS has become a religion for many. All things must be FOSS because it’s a holy conquest, and if just everything were FOSS all would be perfection because reasons."
If FOSS were actually a religion, the holy conquest you describe would be the most adorable and least bloody holy conquest in the history civilization.
If FOSS were actually a religion, then what is stopping you from joining the least bloody and most adorable religion in the history of civilization?
Come.
Join us.
(Patches accepted.)
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Feb 4, 2022
Zettelkasten
https://github.com/drcode/zek is a neat program <3 and its demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_m176PIdU is inspiring me.. to build my own version 🤦
I think people have lost sight of the essence of Zettelkasten .
never having to name notes
extremely fine-grained addressing
lots of nudges to create cross-links
The tension: links tend to require names.
Any interest in collaborating on or use-testing something malleable but text-only in Teliva?
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Feb 3, 2022
New data on an old, boring subject from someone without an axe to grind
I just tracked down my umpteenth memory corruption bug in Teliva: https://github.com/antirez/kilo/pull/81
I'm pretty sure this was the one that got me to lose data on several days of Advent of Code 2021.
The number of such bugs found in this tiny codebase (https://github.com/antirez/kilo/search?q=memory is not comprehensive) is a huge case against C. I'm not out of practice, I'm just only able to manage memory reliably in C++, for all that I dislike it.
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Feb 1, 2022
There's been some bug going around. I spent the last few days thinking Teliva sucked. This morning I think it's cool again.
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