delboni's comments

On: J3blocks is a Janet scripting system for i3bar and swaybar

[delboni]

Nice! I've been using babashka for doing i3blocks scripts with Clojure and is being great so far as well :)

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/dotfiles/tree/master/tag-li...

[amano-kenji → delboni]

With j3blocks, you script the entire status command.

You can also run your babashka commands through `cmd` j3blocks module.

On: Non-English music recommendations for work?

[delboni]

I have the same problem, I can't listen nothing in English or Portuguese while working.

I ended up doing an brain.fm subscription, that I highly recommend!

But before I made this playlist with 8+hs of instrumental (mostly rock) music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7cKt2D5jIScGyvMcNEfOHy?si=...

I also listened some Russian Rock/Synth: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6PjFMMUrGU2bJz8ybc5dVm?si=...

On: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

[delboni]

At first I read this post and I thought: nothing, but then I opened my gh account and saw a bunch of random stuff I made.

Here my favorites:

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cajus-nfnl neovim configuration / documentation, focused on working with clojure, that I wrote trying to convince an Emacs friend to jump into nvim. (It didn't worked he still on Emacs :D)

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/nota Static Markdown blog/site using Fulcro & Pathom with no backend source that I did for my blog and for learning cljs + pathom.

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/super-dice-roll-clj Discord and Telegram bot that roll dices using using commands like /roll 4d6+4 that I did for playing RPG on telegram and testing a clojure backend stack I built.

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/Graphmosphere A Twitter bot that create random geometric pictures and gifs using only clojure and Java that used GH Action as post trigger. (Disabled because the new api pricing thing on Twitter.)

https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/paro Tool for managing dotfiles directories; Heavily based on rcm that I did for learning Rust. (Horrible code)

On: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?

[delboni]

Does anyone knows how Kagi performs on country specific search or even search in another languages?

[jaktet → delboni]

One personal anecdote. It did not do that great for Norway/Norwegian, I ended up switching back to google when trying to find some stuff in stores.

For recipes and stuff it was fine.

[benhurmarcel → delboni]

It works fine in French for me. I really like that I can have international search by default, and specify a country when needed using a bang like !fr.

[janaagaard → delboni]

Working fine for me with Danish as my primary language. But I think that I mostly search for English content, so unsure how your experience will be.

But could you not just pay for a month and try it? I don’t think their plans bind you for a longer than a month.

On: Why Fennel?

[delboni]

If you want a sample nvim setup using nfnl you can check this out: https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cajus-nfnl

[Graziano_M → delboni]

This nerdsniped me. I've finally taken plunge and started converting my aniseed config to nfnl. It's pretty painful, not even sure if I will keep the changes, but I want to see.

[Graziano_M → Graziano_M]

Look what you've made me do! https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/compare/nfnl

[delboni → Graziano_M]

Cool! I've been using for some weeks and really liking so far :)

On: Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

[delboni]

Building my own mechanical keyboards and learning to paint with gouache (not that super amazing end result, but is for me super cool to have a physical painting at the end of a session).

On: Ask HN: How to send a message to someone 20 years into the future?

[delboni]

Thanks a lot for your kind words and advice!

On: Ask HN: How to send a message to someone 20 years into the future?

[delboni]

For how long you being doing this? How is the experience so far, do you have a quota of writing or just send emails organically when you feel that you want to?

[_rend → delboni]

Only a few weeks, so the experience is still pretty fresh. :) I do like it, though: dead-simple once the setup was in place, and zero ongoing maintenance so far.

My plan is to keep it entirely organic — so far have I've only really sent a few emails around the more meaningful-feeling milestones. (Arriving home, one week, etc.) I think, long-term, I'd prefer to have the amount of content not feel _overwhelming_ when I hand it off; I'm not planning on having this be the primary way to document my kid's life, but as something "extra" to be able to pass off to them.

[Also, being a few weeks in: I'd warn against making any plans for the first few weeks assuming you'll have much brain capacity available to you. I'd say, don't stress yourself out too much if you can avoid it.]

On: Ask HN: How to send a message to someone 20 years into the future?

[delboni]

Yeah I'm considering scrapbook + polaroids (or printing pictures) and gluing them into the pages. I just don't think it will be practical as something digital.

[dave4420 → delboni]

On the other hand it will be more personal? Less ephemeral? Or is that just me being old fashioned?

On: Ask HN: How to send a message to someone 20 years into the future?

[delboni]

Good question, if I use email would work because the date and subject of each email (still a huge inbox to read), but I didn't thought much in others alternatives. One could be markdown files, one file by each post sorted by date (kinda like an offline blog in obsidian.md).