From a business perspective, that's exceptionally misguided.
Annoying the fuck out of people is a good way to chase them away.
Blogs work as much via reblogging and word-of-mouth as anything else.
The most egregious example I can think of is the Google Blogger dynamic designs, which I find both completely frustrate any attempt to read the content presented, and which I've yet to find a way to un-do the damage via local CSS.
In most cases, even Readability curls up in a corner and weeps quietly rather than present its exceptionally clean and quite preferable page design.
I've appealed directly to several blog owners to chose a different site design (e.g., not the "dynamic* layouts). Generally, I close the page as soon as I open it.
I have tried many of them except dwm at this point. This is not because I dislike dwm (on the contrary, I love the idea and its "if you can't compile me you don't deserve me attitude), but i3wm and dwm are all derivitaves, of well, dwm user modifications that either stay dwm (with patchsets) or emerge into something different (uh, Mosca, i3wm, awesomewm for sure, and many others of the pure C variety; I am certain XMonad and others follow dwm aesthetics and philosophy in a very general sense because dwm went backwards by throwing out the kitchen sink and going for pure, raw simplicity). If you try any of the derivatives, you will notice they usually take one dwm patchset notion and focus on it, or try different window management logic (many of the new one try b-tree sorting and management of windows). But they all focus on doing one window management style or feature, and doing it well for those people (my favorite example: stumpwm/ratpoision were very much unique and popular, spawning many look-alikes by eschewing the mouse altogether).
I use i3wm and really liked StumpWM (will probably return to it soon), but to make this dichotomy is to oversimplify and not realize WM systems usually focus on one-feature for the tool and do it well. Not all WMs are alike and that is why, as a StumpWM fanboy, giving control to another one arbitrarily (I think it is the only WM that totes that as a feature btw), shoes a very unique that I vainly believe lines up with mine.
You can go simpler than slock: vlock -sna will switch to a locked console tty and prevent you from switching out until you've unlocked it. This avoids all of the problems with X-based lockers, some hinted at on https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#security-design
(Note: don't sudo vlock -sna if you haven't set a root password, add yourself to the vlock group instead.)
Turns out, quite annoyingly, the package on Arch providing vlock, and an older version at that, is kbd, from the Keyboard Project (http://www.kbd-project.org/).
FYI to everyone on Arch, for a current version that makes this work, you need the AUR package vlock-original, and then invoke that as the executable name in the terminal. I already replace xscreensaver and got rid of it. Thanks for the tip!
There's physlock[0] as well, as vlock (apparently) has some limitations according to physlock(1):
physlock is an alternative to vlock, it is equivalent to `vlock -an'.
It is written because vlock blocks some linux kernel mechanisms like
hibernate and suspend and can therefore only be used with some limita‐
tions.
I can't attest to this as I've only used vlock, so correct me if I'm wrong.
And I just want to say suckless tools are wonderful. I vascilate about studying C well enough to be dangerous, and I do see a very wonderful beauty in the aggressive Suckless C dogma. There is kid is so, to a novice, small and clean that I love their philosophy and orthodoxy.
Long live suckless! Does any use their st terminal emulator?
I use st exclusively. It's bound to my new terminal key mapping and I've never found a reason to use a different one. I tried urxvt and xterm but stuck with st.
> He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site
I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)
OT, but it's heartening to see a link to an RSS feed next to Twitter and G+. I find that more and more sites are abandoning this public, open source standard in favor of proprietary platforms.
Wasn't tumblr the one that pops up something in the lower right, asking you to sign up so you can follow new posts¹? At least they still have RSS, as opposed to Twitter which seems to have killed it (sometimes a bit strange ... when you assume that someone never posts anything any more, but instead just their RSS feed broke or changed to another URL).
I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. For example, "Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format."
> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.
> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.
That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 103 ms ] threadPerhaps someone could do one thing well and come up with a blogging platform for this nice project?
Annoying the fuck out of people is a good way to chase them away.
Blogs work as much via reblogging and word-of-mouth as anything else.
The most egregious example I can think of is the Google Blogger dynamic designs, which I find both completely frustrate any attempt to read the content presented, and which I've yet to find a way to un-do the damage via local CSS.
In most cases, even Readability curls up in a corner and weeps quietly rather than present its exceptionally clean and quite preferable page design.
I've appealed directly to several blog owners to chose a different site design (e.g., not the "dynamic* layouts). Generally, I close the page as soon as I open it.
- An LFS build off kernel.org (the kernel) and github (the rest of userland) would be an interesting experiment.
http://sta.li/
It seems pretty interesting, but very much in early stages.
BusyBox is great and everything, but it's definitely not subscribing to the "One Thing Well"-philosophy, quite the contrary: everything in one.
[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?format=html&query=crunch...
* http://xmonad.org/
* http://tools.suckless.org/slock/
* http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
* http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
* http://notmuchmail.org/
* http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
* http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
* https://github.com/Tox/toxic
* http://mcabber.com/
* https://01.org/connman
* https://01.org/powertop
I use i3wm and really liked StumpWM (will probably return to it soon), but to make this dichotomy is to oversimplify and not realize WM systems usually focus on one-feature for the tool and do it well. Not all WMs are alike and that is why, as a StumpWM fanboy, giving control to another one arbitrarily (I think it is the only WM that totes that as a feature btw), shoes a very unique that I vainly believe lines up with mine.
Just my 0.02.
http://herbstluftwm.org/
(Note: don't sudo vlock -sna if you haven't set a root password, add yourself to the vlock group instead.)
Now to script it as I spent most of my time in a X term emulator with a tmux session. Can someone effectively script X -> tty console then vlock?
UPDATE: So am I missing something, because I get more or less the man page below:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock
And I see no -n argument. Are you using Linux or some other Unix? What version do you use?
(Sorry, I really need to sleep early, but you have to keep telling me how to improve my laptop!)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html
FYI to everyone on Arch, for a current version that makes this work, you need the AUR package vlock-original, and then invoke that as the executable name in the terminal. I already replace xscreensaver and got rid of it. Thanks for the tip!
[0] http://github.com/muennich/physlock
Long live suckless! Does any use their st terminal emulator?
Check their FAQ for getting the Delete key to work! http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ
Thank you!
> He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site
I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)
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¹ Yep, they were: http://hypftier.de/temp/2014-09-22_083217.png
http://onethingwell.org/tagged/windows
I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. For example, "Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format."
Simple is in the eye of the beholder.
There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.
> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.
That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.
[0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo