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apas | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

I tried out Superpowered and while it's more polished than its competitors, it has a few downsides other commenters have already touched upon (pricing, memory use, and personally, the name hits too close to home to Superhuman.)

I've found that the best alternative is Slapdash. [0] Connect your calendar and then just hit cmd + J and boom -- Zoom is running. Many more connections are amazing as well, eg. deep Dropbox and Drive integration.

[0] https://slapdash.com

apas | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust

This is neat. In a similar fashion I'm a big fan of diff-highlight, [0] which post-processes the git diff and highlights with color the differing segments. It's super lightweight and part of the official git repo; I've saved it as a standalone #!/bin/perl in my $PATH and then included it in my .gitconfig:

  [pager]
   log = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   show = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   diff = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
[0]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...

apas | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Deep Work Hours

Congrats on shipping, OP--looks interesting. FWIW, if someone's interested in a macOS app instead of a web one, I built Pomodoro a little less than a year ago. [0] It's minimal, sits in the menu bar, looks ok, and doesn't have ads.

[0]: https://github.com/apas/pomodoro

apas | 7 years ago | on: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

Installed it and played around for a bit. Nice work overall. Amp's jump mode (press `f` and elements in the buffer will be prefixed with a two character jump token) is pretty cool. Would love to see this in Vim.

apas | 8 years ago | on: Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH

> Using 1Password to store your 2fA seed makes it single factor

Thanks. I certainly understand that but the convenience trumps the risk imo. Further, I don't want to reach for and insert a USB drive every time I want to log in somewhere. And what if there's no available USB port?

apas | 8 years ago | on: Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH

Can someone ELI5 why Yubikeys are better for 2FA than using, say, 1Password, which simplifies the process with cmd + \ and automatically pasting the 2F code? (Even better than Google Authenticator; no need to reach for anything.)

apas | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: athena – yet another (but better) minimal static blog generator

Author / OP here. athena started as a pet project for my personal blog; in the process I thought of releasing it publicly as well. I simply like Tufte CSS. athena's a great playground to experiment with ET's ideas and SSGs while incorporating my personal Pandoc (academic and casual) publishing workflow. My main goal was to create one workflow to write plain text docs and be able to publish to PDF via LaTeX (Tufte layout or not,) HTML (same,) slides, letters, &c without (or with minimal) changes in document structure. In any way, you're more than welcome to pull request a new, non-Tufte CSS layout.

apas | 9 years ago | on: The simple things I want in a text editor

Sublime Text is the better option right now. Atom is still (too) slow. Can handle pure programming, remote files over ssh, [1] complex builds, and act as a one-stop-shop for all your writing needs. [2]

[1] http://log.liminastudio.com/writing/tutorials/sublime-tunnel...

[2] My personal experience/setup: write in Markdown, export to pretty much every file format using Pandoc (binds nicely with a ST package) and custom Pandoc builds/templates. For instance, I export native Markdown to Tufte Handouts LaTeX-generated PDFs. Love this.

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