Kevin Mok @Kevin@fosstodon.org

Going forward, the file manager Ranger will be converted into an IRC client.

https://github.com/ranger/ranger#ranger-204-1

Congrats to Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, on his upcoming position as president of IBM in April!

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-arvind-krishna-replace-2020-1

Not usually a fan of #VSCode, but this setup looks awesome.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/erd8av/i3gaps_neon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

"I hacked #zathura and girara to provide proper background transparency with the recolor feature. That is, only the background of the document is transparent, while the text is fully opaque." 😍

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/eq1714/i3_zathura_with_proper_transparency/femxf91?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

"#Sony Pictures Imageworks has made the color management tool OpenColorIO—which was used to create the recent hit animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—available to the #opensource community. The tool has now become the second software project of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a #Linux Foundation-owned open source association." 😮

https://www.cbr.com/into-the-spider-verse-software-goes-open-source/

"#Google is now banning the popular Linux browsers named Konqueror, Falkon, and Qutebrowser from logging into Google services because they may not be secure." 🤦‍♂️

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-now-bans-some-linux-web-browsers-from-their-services/

#Twitter trying to reinvent ActivityPub.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ActivityPub/comments/e9gmbj/twitter_is_funding_a_small_independent_team_of_up/

#HotTake: I've noticed that #GitHub has gotten some pretty neat features since #Microsoft acquired it. Making Dependabot free and integrated with GitHub, deleting issues and the sponsor program. I'm sure there's many more features I'm forgetting/missing too. It seems as if new features are being rolled out way more quickly too now, given the bigger team size I suppose. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Relevant links:
https://dependabot.com/blog/hello-github/
https://github.com/sponsors

year 1: hoping and praying no-one asks you to do anything on the big scary command line

year 5: if I have to leave the safe haven of my terminal to use some GUI nonsense, someone's gonna pay

😂

Source: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1185152144158187520

Who else can't relate? 😆 Windows managers are life. #i3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/dg0r00/because_the_letter_x_is_how_we_close_apps_or/

I don't think you really need a business card nowadays, but I had fun making an HTML one anyway. 😀

https://kevin-mok.com/card

Made my own #minimal personal weather webpage inspired by wttr.in. 😀

https://git.kevin-mok.com/Kevin-Mok/weather

Ah, so this is how you quit #Vim... 😄

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim#how-to-exit-vim

My contribution to https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules#marketwatch 🙃

Where has this been all my life? Greatest todo manager I've ever seen! #taskwarrior

https://youtu.be/zl68asL9jZA

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/cyncbd/not_mine_can_should/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

When you really want Twitch emotes on your Riot server such that you turn on URL previews and get a domain just to host the emotes. 😅

Cool video about how Unicode solved the space issues with ASCII.

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

https://youtu.be/MijmeoH9LT4

Given both options, does anyone choose to use a cloud #server over a home server?