I finally published my first addon, and it hit the asset library today!

Log.pr(...) and Log.prn(...) are intended as drop-in replacements for print(...):

• colorizes the output data based on type
• recursively prints dictionaries and arrays
  • (with a sane max count, i.e. not printing 1000 entries in an array)
• adds a script-name prefix and line-number before each log
  • with different treatment for [src:12]: vs <addons:12>: vs {test:12}: scripts

For me this helps reduce wall-of-text noise and eye strain while reading logs at a glance.

I created a docs site via docsify, and the code is on github.

I'll be adding support for more types and customizing the color choices soon. You can opt-in to pretty-printing with your own objects by implementing a to_printable() function. I'm brainstorming ways to add support for not-your custom types as well (for example, Pandora Entities) - I have a few ideas but nothing implemented yet.

I've been using it in my own projects for a few months now, so it feels ready to share - I'm hopeful that others find it useful!

Try it out, let me know what you think!

Dot Hop launched today on steam! It has some challenging grid puzzles that I think folks will find satisfying.

This game started as a puzzlescript game for the Fediverse Summer Jam hosted by the p.d community - I reimplemented it in Godot, added themes and many more puzzles, and finally released it last night/this morning.

The game's source is available on github and it can be purchased on steam and on itch.io.

Hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you think!

One of my favorite command line tips: you can add 'comments' full of keywords to shell commands, which makes searching your command history easier.

> obscure-cmd --with-weird-flags -Qdt # searchable comment keywords

Presumably you're using something like fzf for history search, but this is still useful without it.

This is especially useful for cli tools with obscure names/flags, or when you can't remember where a particular log file is.

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Some examples from my history:

tail awesomewm logs:

tail -f ~/.cache/awesome/logs -n 2000 # tail follow log awesomewm

fix linux clock drift:

sudo ntpd -qg && sudo hwclock --systohc # fix linux clock time drift

copy ngrok public url to clipboard:

curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | jq ".tunnels[0].public_url" | tr -d '"' | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard -i # fetch ngrok url uri, copy to clipboard

sign ssh and gpg, then refresh the emacs keychain env:

keychain --agents gpg,ssh --eval id_rsa <some-gpg-id> && emacsclient -e '(keychain-refresh-environment)' # sign ssh,gpg password, refresh emacs env

Another gpg one:

git config commit.gpgsign false # disable gpg signing for this repo

Pacman/pamac commands, like listing orphaned packages:

pacman -Qdt # list orphans
pamac list -o # list orphans

xprop - super useful for debugging window management, for some reason i can never remember what it's called:

xprop # mouse click window x11 linux describe info client helper whateveritscalled

Some helpers from my clawe project:

bb --config ~/russmatney/clawe/bb.edn -x clawe.sxhkd.bindings/reset-bindings # reset sxhkd bindings
bb --config ~/russmatney/clawe/bb.edn -x clawe.restart/reload # reload clawe

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Aliases come to mind as well - in some cases that might be a better fit. I like this because it's so low-lift.