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As an example, Opera was payware for the first ten years of its existence. I remember trying out a demo of it included on a CD decades ago!

A similar alternative is Howard Oakley’s Dintch/Fintch/cintch:

https://eclecticlight.co/dintch/


> (No good music players for MacOS for instance)

Have to strongly disagree on this point. Cog¹ is my music player of choice on macOS; not only does it have a clean GUI, but it supports almost every format² I’ve ever wanted to listen to audio in, including game music in formats like GBS (Game Boy Sound System) and 2SF (Nintendo DS Sound Format).

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¹ — https://github.com/losnoco/cog

² — https://cog.losno.co/


+1 for Cog, it's pretty awesome to be able to play N64 music files natively!


Vox is also pretty great for FLAC

https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player


Vox has a UI reminiscent of a Windows XP skin and gobs of macOS oddities. I feel like they're still trying to catch up to macOS UI changes from 5 years ago. Don't get me started on how inaccessible the entire interface is... They have tab bound not to focus changes but to switching the, yes, tab...


Doesn’t work as insanely quickly as voidtools’ Everything, but I use Thomas Tempelmann’s Find Any File as my Everything replacement on macOS:

https://findanyfile.app/


I love how you remember the authors of the tools you use.


Archive.org link for the v0.2 documentation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210419191239/https://docs.rack...


This looks interesting. Thanks for digging that up.

I've done a little video editing using Adobe Premiere (mid-2000's) and Shotcut (2022). The UI for both seemed overwrought and difficult to get what I wanted out of. A text description of timecodes and filter parameters sounds a ton easier to use.

Having said that, I assume that would exist if the market actually wanted it.


Avisynth+ does that. It is well supported and has a huge community.

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page


I'll check that out :) I'd be curious how well this would work without being able to see the video you're messing with (fully blind myself). Will give that a whirl.


Author of videolang:

Avisynth+ is awesome.

Interestingly enough, the first version of video was actually built on top of libmlt: https://www.mltframework.org/

I was just dissatisfied with it due to its lack of functions. I can't remember why I didn't just use avisynth as it does actually have functions.


Definitely going to check that out. Thank you for the link.


AviSynth also has a 'function' keyword.


I agree the UI for Premiere can be overwhelming to a new user. Also, the keyboard shortcuts are clearly assigned by engineers and not editors.

When I switched from tape-to-tape editing to NLEs in 2005, I started a new keyboard shortcut layout that was more intuitive, and was all on the left side of the keyboard, allowing the right hand to never have to leave the mouse.

I made a tutorial teaching Premiere by way of these shortcuts (although these shortcuts work on just about every NLE, with slight variations). The tutorial is long, but if you just go through the first part, explaining each shortcut, you can get pretty far along learning how to edit with Premiere.

The video and shortcut layout download is here: https://davidblairportfolio.com/daves-premiere-pro-tutorial

This might be the only editing tutorial that uses as an editing example the editing of the tutorial you're watching.


This "language" looks more like a file format to be honest.


Well, it gets compiled to Racket code, and has distinct syntax, so it seems to fit the bill as a language.


From the linked website:

“Focus Anywhere

Our web app can be installed on your mobile devices. Focus with friends & keep track of your progress on the go. Boost your productivity no matter where you are!”


It’s mentioned in the first paragraph:

“We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the same power consumption baseline in both idle and active states. As a result, Flipper Zero's battery life was approximately 1 week instead of the intended 1 month.


Thanks, apparently I'm just blind


Your eyes just switch to power-saving quickly.


Since you mentioned macOS, it would be remiss of me to not mention UnicodeChecker:

https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html


I haven’t used the iOS version of Orion myself (only the macOS version), but uBlock Origin + Orion would be the equivalent for iOS:

https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#iosext

https://browser.kagi.com/


Did apple allow 3rd parties using WKWebView to get access their JS engine? Orion really seems fast.


> You can provide a more helpful error message by explicitly informing the user that the username they typed exists but they haven't offered the correct password for it.

The parent poster already addressed that though:

If you mistype your username, you might have entered another, existing username. Just telling the user 'wrong password' will mean they are less likely to check that the username was correct.

If you inform the user the username they typed exists, the chance of them not thinking about double-checking they didn’t mistype their own username increases.


>The parent poster already addressed that

Thank you for your comment, but I don't agree

"telling the user that the username they typed exists, but they haven't offered the correct password for it" - is extremely different from Just telling the user 'wrong password'. It's different because it provides more information

>If you inform the user the username they typed exists, the chance of them not thinking about double-checking they didn’t mistype their own username increases.

That seems to be a user problem first of all, because it's based on the user's mistaken belief about the uniqueness of usernames. If possible, it would be best to help the user understand this.


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