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Name: cli Description: Command-line interfaces, shells, terminals, TUIs Category: tools Similar tags: compilers, databases, vcs (ie classes of tools) Recent stories that would qualify: In praise of Nushell (56) (programming) Useful Uses of cat (70) (linux) Ghostty Devlog 006 (46) (programming) s/bash/zsh/g (26) (devops, linux, unix) The Bun Shell (48) (javascript) Elvish scripting case studies (24) (programming) gitu: A TUI Git client inspired by...

Name: editors Description: Text editors Similar tags: emacs (Emacs editor), vim (Vim editor) Previous proposal: Is it time for an editors tag? Following stories since 2023 qualify for the tag. Editors stories are usually highly upvoted. They have been posted variously under emacs, vim, programming, and release. Helix Notes (52) (programming, vim) aligning Markdown tables in Helix (39) (programming) Helix 23.03 (61) (release) Even...

Even though Raku and modern Perl share the same ancestry, both are nowadays considered to be separate languages.

I submitted a story about the tech industry’s poor understanding of consent [ADMIN EDIT: removed link], with a recent example prominently featured: Automattic’s decision to sell WordPress.com-hosted content to OpenAI and Midjourney, and their choice of an “opt out” mechanism rather than an “opt in” mechanism. The call to action of this blog post was that tech workers need to push harder for human-respecting...

Right now, when landing on the homepage, a user has no easy way to know if new comments have been posted on a story, whose comments they’ve already read. Similarly to how new comments are highlighted in a story’s page, but for the homepage. My personal workaround is to try to remember more or less how many comments were there last time I checked,...

I think that the “average karma per story/comment” is an anti-feature. Since posts usually get more points than comments, it incentivizes people to post more stories instead of interacting with them. The metric has little to no use, and I believe that there are only harms associated with it. I propose that the metric in the profile be removed.

We’re closing out 2023, and I figured it’d be nice to give people a space to say what they’re thankful for, what fun they’ve had, what they plan to do next year, and so-on and so-forth. Happy New Year!