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    ansible avatar ansible 5 years ago | link | on: Ultra-Geek Linux Workstation Guide

    I’d checkout zathura w/ mupdf as a backend. Much nicer configurations, better vim keybindings, and more features (dark mode w/ hue adjustments for one).

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      ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link | on: crowdfunding campaign for qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused, vim-like browser

      Looks like an awesome project, best of luck getting funded! For anyone who is using chrome as their main browser, I’ve used the Vimium[1] chrome extension with some luck. I’m curious if you’ve seen/used this extension before and some of the benefits of qutebrowser over this extension (beside native support for the vim bindings which I would think lends itself to a more fluid experience)

      [1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en

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        The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler 6 years ago | link

        Vimium (which I used for a longer time before starting qutebrowser) is mostly about keybindings, while mostly keeping the Chrome UI (it has no other choice, with Chromium’s plugin API). It doesn’t have things like a real commandline, easy extensibility, or a minimal UI.

        I think the user interface is really important - I have a relatively low-resolution screen (1366x768), and I don’t want a big address/tab bar I almost never look at.

        Also, with qutebrowser you can do things like :spawn mpv {url} to simply launch mpv to play the current URL. Or :hint links spawn mpv {hint-url} to do the same via hints. Or :download-open to simply open the file you just downloaded. Or edit form fields with e.g. vim by using Ctrl-e.

        From my point of view, qutebrowser compared to Vimium is basically like vim compared to some IDE with really bad vim emulation.

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          ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link

          Thanks so much for the run down, qutebrowser sounds awesome. I was sad to see that homebrew dropped QtWebKit as I was exited to give it a try.

          Using qutebrowser with Homebrew on OS X is currently broken, as Homebrew dropped QtWebKit support with Qt 5.6. I’m working on building a standalone .app for OS X instead, but it’ll still take a few days until it’s ready.

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            The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler 6 years ago | link

            I built a standalone .dmg/.app for qutebrowser just a few hours ago, I’ll release a v0.6.0 dmg once some people confirmed it works - if you want to test it, that’d be most appreciated! https://t.cmpl.cc/qutebrowser.dmg

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              ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link

              App worked perfectly. Was able to download it and fire it up no problem. I’ll play around with it a bit more and let you know if anyone comes up.

              Sent from my qutebrowser

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                The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler edited 6 years ago | link

                Awesome, thanks for testing! I assume you’re on OS X 10.11 (~~Yosemite~~El Capitan)? I’d be really curious if it works on 10.10/10.9 as well.

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                  ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link

                  El Capitan actually (10.11.4 (15E65)). I think I might have an older machine I can try it out on, i’ll have to get back to you on that. I did receive a crash signing into github and reported it through the reporting dialogue box that came up. Not sure how that reporting system works and if you’ll eventually get the crash report but if there’s a better place for me to send it to you let me know.

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                    The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler 6 years ago | link

                    Hmm, I think you’re running into this Qt bug. I fixed it in Qt, but maybe for some reason the Mac I’m building the dmg on didn’t have the fix backported…

                    I think you get an OS X crash report window? Can you look at the details there and confirm the stacktrace mentions WebCore::SocketStreamHandle::platformClose() too?

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                      ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link

                      Sorry for the delay, yes I see that line in the stack trace

                      0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x00007fff9d1948ea __kill + 10
1   libsystem_platform.dylib        0x00007fff8c61852a _sigtramp + 26
2   ???                             000000000000000000 0 + 0
3   QtWebKit                        0x000000010774bf04 WebCore::SocketStreamHandle::platformClose() + 84
4   QtWebKit                        0x000000010774a79a WebCore::SocketStreamHandleBase::disconnect() + 26
5   QtWebKit                        0x000000010773bf96 WebCore::WebSocketChannel::fail(WTF::String const&) + 710
6   QtWebKit                        0x0000000107739375 WebCore::WebSocket::close(int, WTF::String const&, int&) + 325
7   QtWebKit                        0x00000001077fb42d WebCore::jsWebSocketPrototypeFunctionClose(JSC::ExecState*) + 205
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                        The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler 6 years ago | link

                        That’s indeed the crash I suspected it was - I installed the patched Qt on my build machine and repacked, can you please try https://t.cmpl.cc/qutebrowser-dmgv2.dmg ?

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                          ajorgensen avatar ajorgensen 6 years ago | link

                          Yup looks like that fixed the crash. I was able to sign into github no problem.

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                    mikemccracken avatar mikemccracken 6 years ago | link

                    Hi, it seems to run fine on 10.10.4 (Yosemite) for me. Good luck!

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            ansible avatar ansible 6 years ago | link

            I’ve been a heavy user of Vimium for a few years and I just tried this on my windows machine. It works really well! Will see if I can contribute to development, PyQt5 looks awesome to use.

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              The-Compiler avatar The-Compiler 6 years ago | link

              I’d be glad! Let me know if you need help :)

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            ansible avatar ansible edited 6 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

            School

            Term project (web architecture) and finals (cognitive science, computer vision).

            Personal

            Figure out what’s causing my laptop to freeze once in a while. Not sure if it’s my window manager (awesome wm) or X11, or kernel problem yet (arch linux). Happened since last system upgrade, so need to check my logs.

            I also just bought one of those cheap 3D printers lately. This is the one I bought. Heard good things about it and it’s the only one I’ve ever found at this price point that’s not made of acrylic (it’s aluminum!). So i’m going to have a great time building this and dialing down the settings!

            This might also be a good excuse to get another raspberry pi (rpi model 3) to run Octoprint as well ;)

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              zem avatar zem 7 years ago | link | on: New Spaceship Speed in Conway’s Game of Life

              the story aspect of this is pretty fascinating too - someone came out of nowhere with a search technique that found this in 19 seconds (while the standard gfind program took an hour to reproduce the discovery), delivered the result, and from the looks of it has vanished again, or has at the least not made another post (other than one comment in the thread) in the 4-5 days since.

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                Irene avatar Irene 7 years ago | link

                I could easily imagine them being overwhelmed by the response and trying to process the feelings before saying anything else!

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                  lmm avatar lmm 7 years ago | link

                  I think (especially given the tone of their one reply) it’s more likely they don’t care anything like as much as the rest of these people about their discovery, and if anything may be slightly freaked out by the reactions of these obsessives. The whole thread made me think of http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners

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                    ansible avatar ansible 7 years ago | link

                    He just came back and shared his source.

                    http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2057&start=125#p28342

                    Fascinating!

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                  friendlysock avatar friendlysock 7 years ago | link | on: Bookiza - A book reification framework

                  One of the coolest things about the book is that you can drag the pages and they fold over reasonably. You’re awesome. :)

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                    ansible avatar ansible 7 years ago | link

                    I know right? Works pretty well on mobile too, though there’s a little hitch when the page is flipped due to it loading the next page. Would be amazing if this ends up as smooth on mobile as the page turning animations in Google’s Play Books.

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                      flyingfisch avatar flyingfisch 7 years ago | link

                      I would imagine this depends on the browser used and the phone’s hardware? IIRC, Google Play books are native, so the animations will be smoother there than in the browser. However, I haven’t been keeping up on the state of mobile web animation, it may be much better now.