The Urban Dictionary [1] defines it as:
"Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on."
I'm loving it! So simple, yet exactly the thing needed to share a secret quickly in a secure manner over a non-secure channel, e. g. email.
Still a fresh idea I've never seen elsewhere. Congrats and thank you for providing this!
Biggest issues for me: Subscription based payments and (biggest issue) missing option to adjust the keyboard shortuts. So I have to adjust my workflow and muscle memory to the tool instead of the other way around.
For the rest it is a very nice looking client with a good amount of features (for my use case) and hats off to the developers.
Reading the headline, I initially thought that Microsoft bought the company behind XLWings [1], which also enables you to use Excel directly within Excel, even locally. Not affiliated in any kind to that company, just used it in the past.
I completely agree. I'm also trying to wrap my head around Nix on a non-NixOS system. My requirements are to just manage my dotfiles (successful with home-manager) and configuring my system/installing certain packages, so everyone on the host can e. g. start a docker container with Docker installed by Nix. Ideally all with flakes.
I suppose, I can't have the second part without NixOS, though ...
Oh gosh, better not focusing on SpaceX and Tesla. He would destroy these two companies as well. As read somewhere (here at HN?), both have departments to distract Musk once he visits them, so he doesn't create much harm.
Musk is not the genius some people think he is. The companies have good engineers, that's it.
Anyone has some experience with Kivy [1]? It seems that it checks off some of my requirements, like cross-platform, supporting touch interfaces, ease of development, allows complex/fancy UIs as well, etc.
Sorry, but this is just not true. Meat was only a small part of the eating of our ancestors, as it still is for most tribal people. They hadn't an AK to shot at animals. So they spent more days without meat, depending on their luck at hunting.
I would also recommend "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" [1], as you are learning hands on with some practical stuff: from generating Excel-files to PDFs, from sending e-mails to work with files and folders.
At the end you will have some tools to automate some of your daily tasks for real. Oh, and it's free to read as well.
SingleFile [0] and SingleFileZ [1] are my tools of choice for archiving pages. Often using an adjusted version of the aardvark-bookmarklet for cutting out unwanted parts.
Another unusual alternative could be the V-language [1], depending on if you consider this a "sane language" ;-).
Not having used it myself and obviously you have to consider other arguments as well (community, developers, development activity, documentation etc.), but I was caught on all the features it promises, e. g. a "Native cross-platform GUI library": "V has a ui module that uses native GUI toolkits: WinAPI/GDI+ on Windows, Cocoa on macOS. On Linux custom drawing is used."
Well, I don't see the offensive part here. As you say it yourself: "It might be overkill for many simple use-cases." Period. No need to jump into every thread where a user says that it is just too much for her use case, and you asking for links to compare the output (as you did with me as well?).
Just be happy with what you created and the showcases prove the demand for it. So?
Well, there's a tool for every task and yours in this case might be too overblown for the simple task that the user is trying to solve. No need to compare it to the use at bigger companies and organizations. No need to either get arrogant or stroppy. Just because a user doesn't use your tool, she is not a hater, neither.
Sound a bit like "But mine is better/bigger/shinier than yours!" to me. Keep cool.
The Urban Dictionary [1] defines it as: "Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on."
So it is a perfect fit for what you described.
[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yak+shaving