Looks like the main features are arguably better defaults, libcaca support (basically useless anyways), and profile support (how often do you really need to check someone's info that you don't already have stored in the app).
Wee-slack is a gateway for weechat; it uses the slack api. But weechat can function as its own proxy (client/server split between the gui/tui and the network bits).
Extra points for the "Made with [rage emoji]". Can't stand the cheap sentimentality of "Made with [heart emoji]" (Then again, maybe people who use that line mean it...).
The paper says that a postdoc colleague, a dozen years earlier (thus 1986) asked Wadler about his new bicycle: "have you used it in anger yet?"
Wadler may have introduced this as a meme pertaining to programming languages or constructs. In any case, if he did actually glean it from someone else's internet posting about a programming language being used in anger, he's sure not admitting it in this paper.
Wow, you're not wrong. I just went through the closed PR list. Terrible maintainer. Even closes PR's for typos in the README. Doesn't even give a reason why he closes.
I think that stonogo might be wrong. I've just been through that same list, and I haven't found anything rejected for not liking terminals, let alone a "habit" of that. Whereas I have found several PRs closed because they were incorporated into the software (e.g. #40).
I like the idea of this, but it crashes for me on startup. I would definitely use a Slack client like this, but installation with `pip install` would be much better than having to install from source.
It seems to be a TUI (textual user interface), not a CLI (command line interface). If you want a Slack TUI client, there was already https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack
(And I think that one can display images, so maybe it's really halfway between TUI and GUI.)
I wish there was one of these that actually reversed the protocol so you can use username/password. Unless I'm mistaken, token is an opt-in/out feature for each slack admin.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 85.4 ms ] threadI am eager to try that!
I would love some irc bridge functionality hyperlinking the images, but it may be too much to ask.
https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
So not irc gateway, weechat gateway.
The rage emoji reminds me of the expression “to use with anger”, which has come into vogue on HN in the past year or so.
vt. to use for a real task, as opposed to just testing it out.
“Has anyone used this in anger?”
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/use-i...
Here is a 1998 Usenet posting in alt.sysadmin.recovery that uses it:
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.sysadmin...
The message ID is: slrn756lf3.9lm.nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org
Ah, slrn; what I'm using today. :)
However, Philip Wadler (famed FP computer scientist) used this phrase in a February 1998 article called "Functional Programming: An angry half-dozen":
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2003/pllab/print-files/wadle...
The paper says that a postdoc colleague, a dozen years earlier (thus 1986) asked Wadler about his new bicycle: "have you used it in anger yet?"
Wadler may have introduced this as a meme pertaining to programming languages or constructs. In any case, if he did actually glean it from someone else's internet posting about a programming language being used in anger, he's sure not admitting it in this paper.
It predates usage in the context of Perl, or any other software. Indeed it probably predates the existence of software :-)
I think it originates in a British military context (i.e. shots fired in anger rather than in training).
Edit: These answers [1] include a citation from 1798. Sorry if you actually just meant first use in a software context.
[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30939/is-used-in...