i also want an arm laptop running linux with good hardware. hearing it a lot too. fingers crossed.

i miss the old web where websites were fun, so this is kind of neat. on the other hand i’m not a huge fan of sites so loaded with js that performance is abysmal.

hard to say, the article is so short on details.

iirc browsers used to allow direct filesystem access.

They never did, if anything it's the opposite in that I think there are now APIs that can make this possible.

With TiddlyWiki you had to essentially File -> Save As and save the HTML back over itself. There were other ways too but they were all workarounds to the issue that browsers don't allow direct access.

They did back around 2008. I used Wiki on a stick - see https://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/which was kind of neat) but after a few years, Chrome etc stopped letting it save itself.

anybody have a GH alternative they like? bonus points awarded for not being a straight clone of GH.

forgejo [1] works well for me. It can be self-hosted, otherwise e.g Codeberg [2] runs a good instance [2]

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

https://tangled.sh?

social features via atprotocol, native jujutsu support, stacked PRs, interdiffs, light weight to selfhost, nix-based CI.

amazing

Gitlab of course. It's mature.

how's the reliability been?

Great. No problems over the years.

mostly spending free time on my daily note taking / standup tool, daylog: https://github.com/notnmeyer/daylog-cli. more or less the definition of “useless”, for-myself software.

this looks great. excited to give it a go!

i use spotlight to switch apps. having everything in a browser messes with that.

You can install webapps "as an app" which solves that problem... its own icon in the dock, cmd-tabable, etc. In Chrome this is under the "Cast, save, share" menu.

it looks like it is based on vsc. there’s got to be a decent sql client extension, right?

You're welcome to suggest one that has 10% of the functionality that with PyCharm you take for granted.

Graphical table creator? View and export ER schemas? SQL Syntax and autocomplete in .sql files AND within literal strings in your code? Query explainer?

Yeah, I don't think so.

Then why use this instead of VSCode with a couple extensions?

You can in fact get something "pretty close" to Positron by adding and configuring a whole bunch of VS Code extensions, adjusting the layout, etc. However it's fiddly and time-consuming work (and quite challenging for novice users); the resulting UX can be pretty disjointed, too.

Positron provides a batteries-included experience that lets you work with Python and R out of the box; it's easier to get started, everything's already set up for data work, and the tools all work together smoothly. At least, that's the goal. :-)

(disclaimer - I work on Positron)

I honestly don't think it's enough of a value proposition but I wish you the best, more competition is good!

I'd go out on a limb and say the rock-solid out-of-the box experience is what is keeping many people using R-studio (and even R itself), rather than the messy ecosystem of Python. I'm seeing this tendency in myself for some tasks.

Also, my impression is that that is also a big part of why MATLAB still exists, despite outraging prices.

I think the common theme among these tools' main user groups is that they are not developers. They are not comfortable fiddling a lot with a dev environment, but can be productive in an environment where everything just works.

Thus, if Positron can get the same smooth and rock-solid out-of-the box experience, it will be able to reach a lot of these non-developer user groups.

At least that's my 5c.

Jup, that's 100% it. Even tho I build productive systems in anything but R, whipping up Rstudio and having it all included or easily installable without any package manager fuckery or anything makes it a non brainer.