most shells will accept outputting from a silent command to a file, e.g. :> foo.txt (where : is the posix synonym to the true command)

vim in second place let’s goooooo 🎉

Nicely done! I have a CLI tool that does sth similar (input download, answer submissions): https://github.com/tranzystorekk/arrive

Oh boy, how can i forget 2019 and the whole series of “intcode” challenges!

You had a growing specification of a sorta-pcode virtual computer, opcodes, etc. Your input was the titular intcode, a list of integers representing instructions and you had to execute that code and use that execution to solve the bigger challenge, e.g. play a simple one-sided Pong!

* But nobody came.

I enjoy a casual session of Townscaper once in a while, this feels really close to home :3

I played The Longing when I wasn’t sick, but the pacing felt worse than sluggish, so it was a quick refund.

Probably should mention Fugl

This looks like a strong contender! Thanks!

I wasn’t precise, I meant many apps force some kind of rich-text editor that feels clunky and unnecessary, that’s what I want to avoid.

Since I’m already using NextCloud, NextCloud Notes seems like a good fit, I’m wondering how I missed it…

*enter Emacs FTFY

I published a quick configuration here: https://codeberg.org/tranzystorek-io/spectrochat

I was hesitant to use thelounge because of the self-hosting part, but it seems is fairly straightforward to spin up an instance even with just free fly.io resources

Googling ‘irc client’ is always a “blast to the past” adventure

I did give irssi a spin but it seems Cinny has spoiled me 😅

I’m using it atm, but it really feels like there should be sth more, well, FOSSy

It does, but the matrix bridge can be a bit unstable, and I wanted a native experience anyway :P

Thank you! I’ve made small tweaks since posting, like adding config flags to CLI, for instance --style fill will display “filled” bars instead of “striped”:

I think there are two key aspects to IDEs:

a) the larger the codebase and the less familiar you are with it, the more of a nightmare it will be to hunt bugs or search places to insert code; this is where an IDE becomes extremely helpful by e.g. letting you search a struct across multiple modules, showing lints, compiler errors etc.

b) IDEs are only as helpful if they can be configured with your codebase, and sadly there are probably numerous codebases that won’t play nice and let you crate a working config