theedwood · HackerTrans

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I used to use remind and wyrd[0] along with remind-caldav[1] for calendaring. I believe I either used remind-caldav or a custom python script set in my mailcap file (I don't remember which it was now) that would open up calendar attachments on emails and save them in remind and remind was sync'd with google calendar.

The details of how I had it all wired up are now lost to memory, but it seemed to accomplish a similar goal to calendar.txt while supporting standard calendar file formats and sync with Google Calendar.

[0] https://wyrd-calendar.gitlab.io/wyrd/

[1] https://github.com/jspricke/remind-caldav

theedwood

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While I try to stick with cross platform utilities whenever possible, the list below contains both MacOS-only and cross platform tools I use daily and could not live without:

# GUI Tools

  - Alacritty -- Cross platform, lightweight terminal emulator
  - Rancher Desktop -- Better Docker desktop experience
  - Alfred -- Replaces spotlight for me
  - Amphetamine -- Keep laptop awake
  - Rectangle -- Window snapping
  - `notunes` -- Prevents iTunes from popping up (brew install notunes)

#CLI Tools

  - Homebrew -- package manager
  - `lazyvim` -- neovim with a lot of stuff pre-configured.
  - `tmux` -- terminal multiplexer
  - PagerDuty CLI - https://github.com/martindstone/pagerduty-cli
  - Silver Searcher `ag` -- faster grep (brew intall the_silver_searcher)
  - Github cli -- `gh` (brew install gh)
  - `fzf` -- fuzzy finder (brew install fzf)
  - `jq` and `yq` -- Parse json and yaml respectively (brew install jq yq)

theedwood

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> caffeinate

TIL there is a built in utility. I switched from Caffeinate to Amphetamine a while back and never bothered to look for a built-in solution. Great to know!

theedwood

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I’ve used several different IaC tools; Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Polumi to name a few.

What would you say are key differentiators of PyInfra from these existing projects?

theedwood

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You're only addressing half the issue here. By delegating control of your domain to bsky.app, you're still beholden to a centralized ban list and retain no control over your own instance.

theedwood

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Recently started looking in to GPT/LLM based search tools like perplexity.ai for this very reason. I've not used perplexity enough yet that I feel I can form a solid opinion one way or another yet, but I have yet to receive sponsored results or SEO spam from it. Sometimes I have to tailor the query a little differently than I would on a traditional search engine (using more natural language, for example) but it almost always returns useful information and cites it's sources for me so I can read more if the summary wasn't sufficient.

I think Google has divested enough of it's profit from search that it's no longer the cash cow it once was and we're likely to see the quality of the product continue to decline. I would not be surprised if most people have replaced it in the coming years with one of the emerging LLM augmented competitors unless they choose to get on that bandwagon.

The ultimate irony would be to see Google, ever the killer of products, kill off their original product at some point down the road.

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