Genuinely curious here for someone who has tried self hosting git and has found it a pita to maintain...i want to know what is it that devs are flocking to other platforms and how are we sure that they won't pull all the red card signals that github is said to pull off.
Have been self-hosting GitLab for my org a few years by now, with quite a few users (>800 atm). Updates are automatic via the GitLab Omnibus package repos. Once or twice per year some update requires intervention. Otherwise, nothing bad happens. Very happy so far.
Biggest problem at the moment is that AI scrapers (curse them and their owners, pox be upon their houses!) sometimes bring things to a crawl. But nothing that a few firewall rules and anoubis won't solve.
If you are running an org you should be putting all your private services behind netbird or tailscale at minimum. Zero public infra exposure beyond them.
The service isn't supposed to be private, some repos are intentionally public. And including all external collaborators in some VPN scheme is not possible at that scale.
Forgejo is fairly simple to run – way lighter and simpler than GitLab even. (GitLab is quite okay, too!)
If you want a hosted service, go for Codeberg. It’s run by a German non-profit (so it’ll be hard to bite and switch OpenAI-style). Only free/open source projects are accepted, though.
This is one of my favorite videos. After the first penguin jumps the crowd follows till then they confused. Regardless the sight of penguin jumping is breathtaking.
mpvi [1] is the video control part. I have only used it a little bit but it is incredibly good. Control the playback completely from Emacs and quickly make timestamped org notes.
I don't know what the other parts are. Curious to learn!
Of course I can't explain in detail in a single comment everything I listed, besides, that's just a subset of things I do through Emacs.
Sometimes I want to kick off a process in the external terminal - long-lived processes are better handled that way. Kitty has remote protocol. I needed bidirectionally - being able to pipe into and from an arbitrary Emacs buffer to and from the terminal, so I wrote the Piper¹. This kind of stuff should be built into Emacs, maybe someone gets bored and sends patches, if I get to it, perhaps I'd myself do it one day.
I gravitate towards CLIs and tools with built-in IPC layers, Emacs is terrific with inter-process communication. That's how I manage my WM on Mac, where I use Hammerspoon. Wondrous piece on its own, it is Lua-enabled, which means I can use Fennel, which means I can have Lispy-REPL, which means I can connect to it directly from Emacs and manipulate all my windows among a bunch of other things.
In Linux, I have build a similar modal toolkit² (experimental) that is written in Babashka (Clojure), that means I can expose nrepl port and use it with the Lispy-REPL. If you don't know what's such a big deal about it being a Lisp REPL, here's my comment from the other day³.
MPV is amazingly hackable and has an IPC, you can nearly fully control it without touching it. I have built some customizations on top on mpv.el.
To access the browser, I use OSA (open scripting architecture) with some JXA snippets. Unfortunately, there's nothing similar for Linux - the only thing one can do is to run the browser with the RDP port exposed. Although, you still can access the browser history - every major browser keeps it in a sqlite db⁴.
OCRing any text is a straightforward piece of Elisp⁵ - it just checks if there's a graphic content in the clipboard and if it is - it saves it into a temp file and feeds it to tesseract cli. It's not as accurate as most modern OCRs, but it beats everything else in speed. For my purpose (typically grabbing a piece of Zoom screen share) - it works.
Qawalli is great and thank you for spreading more of this and keeping it alive.
Farid Ayaz & Abu Mohammad Qawalls is one of the greatest qawalls of all time in his dedication to music, they never sold out to commercial terms while making quality music.
Farid Ayaz also carries an aura around him and the music he creates. If anyone is interested in getting to more into qawalli they should check out this documentary called "Had Anhad"[0], I'm linking a section where Farid Ayaz is interviewed below(cause I'm such a fanboy ;)
To OP,
Great work, for keeping the verbal poetry alive. PEACE
This is super cool. I also find it hard to the right fit for me so I usually end up at a tailor or wear baggy clothes(which are in trend) however the comfort of having the clothes fit you right and you feeling really good about is missing and fast fashion sucks too lot of poorly designed clothes and cheap materials that becomes generic quite fast.
Kudos for living this lifestyle, those pants look really sick..
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Neat. I like the fact that it is opinionated providing a decent setup
to get things done.
Here are some of the things i was confused about, or thought could be improved.
1. The label of checkbox don't seem to respond to clicks.
2. On Font Input, There's no description or selections on what inputs are acceptable.
3. There is no mention of Javascript in programming language support section.
iirc typescript package can handle js mode apart from the default builtin support for js. A mention of js would have be nice.
As you might have noticed, I am not a web developer, but I will try and look into resolvi g the issues you brought up. I have an idea of how to solve the font issue (https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/ecg/tree/master/item/ecg.lisp#L342), but on my systems this never gives me all the fonts.
The programming language section is also difficult, content-wise, because I don't use most of those languages, and am thus not familiar with their options. My hope is to gather feedback from other users or the package maintainers on what would be interesting.
As an alternative solution,
you can ask if the user would like to setup their font on start of
emacs and invoke `menu-set-font`. But i think this won't work for people
who want to run their emacs in console, another problem i see with this
solution is, it would prompt every time emacs starts, which would lead to more confusion.
if i read it correctly `document.fonts` reads like "get all the fonts used on this web page" rather than "get me all the fonts installed on this computer".
> As an alternative solution, you can ask if the user would like to setup their font on start of emacs and invoke `menu-set-font`. But i think this won't work for people who want to run their emacs in console, another problem i see with this solution is, it would prompt every time emacs starts, which would lead to more confusion.
Interesting idea. It might be possible to generate a snippet that will remove itself after the first initialization, but if that doesn't work at least a comment could be inserted.
> if i read it correctly `document.fonts` reads like "get all the fonts used on this web page" rather than "get me all the fonts installed on this computer".
