Y u no Mamaleek

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Cake day: November 3rd, 2025

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  • AutoKey is an alternative to AutoHotKey, from what I understand. Haven’t gotten around to it yet, but at least it uses a proper programming language instead of the abomination that is AutoHotKey’s scripting lang.

    But nothing beats Hammerspoon which is the analogue for MacOS. Lua programming, sizeable library of OS integrations, built-in http server. Ah, what a beauty it is.


  • I’m currently dealing with an issue where on freshly installed Mint, after some time of me being away from the machine, the entire system and apps seem to have moved to the swap, which is on an hdd — so things slow down to a crawl and it takes like ten minutes to shake them back to life.

    Edit: after some more troubleshooting, I’m not sure swap is the issue, but it’s still likely.







  • There’s a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it’s a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it’s enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.

    Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.

    Voyager’s UI is great, mainly because it’s not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.



  • My motivation to use Ansible is fueled by disdain for manual non-scriptable configuration. I’ve had to use Windows for a couple years lately, and the absence of programmatic access to many things annoyed me to no end.

    Now, I get up in the morning and look to the east. I salute the sun and thank the fate for the chance to do proper configuration again. I don’t wade through dialogs for hours anymore. I don’t lose track of things that I’ve changed somewhere sometime. I’ll learn what the hell the difference between dconf and gsettings is, just to use one of them for all my desktop settings forever. I will have this config for years to come, and I will put more things in it bit by bit.

    Now, if Ansible’s config language wasn’t a naive reinvention of Lisp, that would be great.