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9 votes
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The iPad cursor is here, no wait required
6 votes -
The software that’s being made available free to help with home working during the COVID-19 crisis
4 votes -
Sixteen things that software testers wished they’d learned earlier
5 votes -
Suggestions for free video editing software
I'm using OBS Studio to create some video tutorials. Nothing complicated, just me talking and demonstrating the steps on my screen. I essentially just need to slice up these recordings into clips,...
I'm using OBS Studio to create some video tutorials. Nothing complicated, just me talking and demonstrating the steps on my screen.
I essentially just need to slice up these recordings into clips, delete portions of the recordings where I mess up or there are long pauses, and export it all as one video.
I've used Premier in the past but I no longer have it. While I am pretty capable of learning how to use software, I would prefer something that doesn't have a huge learning curve.
I need something that runs on either Windows or Linux and is free. Not "free trial" free, but actually free. Open source would be a plus but not a requirement.
Feel free to recommend your favorite free video editor even if it doesn't meet all of my requirements, as maybe it will help someone else in the future.
8 votes -
What should be on a QA tester’s résumé? Here's what the recruiters say they want to see
10 votes -
switching.software: Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
18 votes -
In search of the full stack testing team: What makes the best QA teams so good
4 votes -
An app can be a home-cooked meal
12 votes -
Steam hardware & software survey: January 2020
11 votes -
Mycroft won against their patent troll
22 votes -
Mycroft is being targeted by a patent troll
14 votes -
"Herein, a collection of more or less recent, decidedly epic software disasters. May they spark conversation that helps your shop to avoid more of the same."
8 votes -
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
10 votes -
Desktop Goose
20 votes -
The annual assessment of Lockheed Martin's $428 billion F-35 program includes 873 software flaws and a gun that can't shoot straight
4 votes -
Upcycle Windows 7
25 votes -
Close your open tabs - Sometimes, information overload has its limits
14 votes -
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
Five reasons why software testing needs humans
6 votes -
Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people
12 votes -
Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android
7 votes -
Inside Apple’s iPhone software shakeup after buggy iOS 13 debut
13 votes -
LibreOffice 10/20 logo community contest
8 votes -
Subscription affliction - Everything is $10/month
11 votes -
A new funding model for open source software
19 votes -
Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
22 votes -
Adobe is deactivating the accounts of all Venezuelan users with no refunds due to US sanctions
11 votes -
First release of my native Markdown notes app, Notementum (v0.1.0)
Screenshot I posted a few days ago about a notes app I was working on called Notementum, and I'm happy to show you the first release (0.1.0). Installation instructions are available on the Github...
I posted a few days ago about a notes app I was working on called Notementum, and I'm happy to show you the first release (0.1.0). Installation instructions are available on the Github repo: https://github.com/IvanFon/notementum
There's still lots of things I'd like to add, both big and small, and definitely a few bugs here and there, but I've been going for too long without sharing it, and I find it's best to release as early as you can to start getting feedback, and perfect it later.
One things that's missing is documentation. I'd like to start on this soon, but I'm probably not going to share this anywhere other than Tildes just yet, so this comment will do for now :)
Right now, the app only runs on Linux. I'd like to add Windows support, and it almost works, the problem is that WebKit2Gtk, the embedded web view I use to show note previews, doesn't support Windows. I'm going to explore some other options in the future, whether that's figuring out how to compile it, or allowing other preview methods (user's web browser, PDF, etc.).
The app is also very much in alpha, so you shouldn't use this for anything important, there may be bugs that can cause you to lose some of your data. If you do use this for anything, make sure you backup your notes database.
If you want to use it, here's a wall of text on usage:
Usage
The notes database is located at
~/.notes.db
. When you launch the app, it'll load it, or automatically create it if it doesn't exist. I'd eventually like to allow choosing different locations, but it's hard coded for now.The interface is fairly simple. The leftmost sidebar displays a list of notebooks, and the "middlebar" displays a list of notes. Selecting a notebook will display the notes within it in the notes list. Selecting a note will open it in the editor, which is to the right.
To create a new note, press
Escape
to focus on the searchbar above the notes list, and start typing a title. If no existing notes are found, press enter, and a note will be created with the title you entered.To rename a note, double-click on it in the notes list.
The editor has a toolbar with 4 buttons, from left-to-right:
- Toggle between editor and preview (shortcut:
Ctrl+E
) - Assign the current note's notebook
- Add an attachment
- Delete the current note
The green circle all the way to the right turns into a loading indicator when you have unsaved changes. Once you stop typing for a few seconds, your changes will be saved, and it'll switch back into a green circle.
Notebooks
Notebooks aren't created directly, they're based on what notebooks your notes are assigned to. This means that, to create a notebook, assign it to a note. To delete a notebook, just delete all the notes contained within it, or assign them to a different notebook.
Clicking on the notebook toolbar button brings up this dialog. To create a new notebook, double click on
<New notebook>
and type in a name.Attachments
The notes database also stores attachments. This means that the entirety your notes can be contained in your database. Clicking on the attachment toolbar button brings up this dialog. The toolbar allows you to upload an attachment or delete it respectively. Pressing
Insert Selected
will insert the image at your cursor in the editor (![](image.png)
).Theme
The screenshots show the app with my desktop Gtk theme, Arc Dark. On your desktop, it'll use whatever your theme is. It should look good with any Gtk theme, but at some point I may bundle Arc Dark with it.
The note preview currently has it's colours hard coded to look good with Arc Dark, so it may look a bit off on other themes. I'll try to sort that out at some point.
Planned features
- load/save database to/from different path
- Windows support
- note exports
- database encryption
- changing syntax highlighting theme
- note tags
- full-text search
- proper documentation
- more keyboard shortcuts
- integrated sync
- although you should already be able to use Git, Synthing, Dropbox, etc.
- Vim mode for editor
- maybe somehow embed a terminal to allow using vim/emacs/whatever
Boring technical stuff
The app was made with Python and Gtk+ 3. I've done this before and I really enjoy the development experience, especially with Glade to design the interface. There are still some Gtk features that I should really be using to make things simpler (GtkApplication, actions, and accelerators) that I'll be adding later.
The database uses sqlite 3. This is convenient, as it allows for storing everything in one file, and will make fast searches easier in the future. Attachments are stored as base64 directly in the database. This makes it easy to have all your notes be contained entirely in the one database, but I may have to think about a more efficient method in the future.
Markdown rendering is done using mistletoe, which has been great to use. Syntax highlighting and MathJax renderers were already available, so it was just a matter of combining both and adding custom image loading from the database, which was very easy. Mistletoe has a very easy to use API, so this was no problem.
For LaTeX math rendering, I'm using MathJax. It supports pretty much everything, which is nice, but it can take a while to load. I'm currently loading it from a CDN in a
<script>
tag, so I'm hoping once I load it from a local file it'll be a bit faster. If not, I may have to find another solution.Like I said, the app still has a few bugs that need to be fixed. If you find any problems, it would be great if you could leave a comment here or open a Github issue (or if you have any feature requests).
21 votes - Toggle between editor and preview (shortcut:
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Apple subsidiary, FileMaker, returns to its original name from the ’80s [Claris]
9 votes -
Public statement on neutrality of free software
25 votes -
The global Cloudflare outage today was caused by a bad regex in a firewall rule that spiked CPU usage to 100% on all machines
23 votes -
You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA
26 votes -
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
8 votes -
Adobe warns customers of potential legal action for using older versions of Creative Cloud apps
19 votes -
The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
10 votes -
Librem announces Librem One
18 votes -
Invisible malware is here and your security software can't catch it
6 votes -
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer
11 votes -
How to get developers to do things your way
5 votes -
Ghidra the reverse engineering tool has been open sourced
6 votes -
Moving into software defined networking and devops? Here's the skills you need and how to acquire them
5 votes -
Hackers hijacked ASUS software updates to install backdoors on thousands of computers
10 votes -
Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 votes -
Turn on auto-updates everywhere you can
13 votes -
Why aren't smartphones like PCs where you have choice over your OS and get updates directly from OS vendor?
I can install Linux or Windows or even BSD on my laptop without much hassle, and get the updates directly from the OS vendors. This isn't the case for smartphones. You don't have choice over your...
I can install Linux or Windows or even BSD on my laptop without much hassle, and get the updates directly from the OS vendors.
This isn't the case for smartphones. You don't have choice over your OS. You don't even get android updates directly from Google, and have to wait for device manufacturers to release the updates. Why is it so?
32 votes -
GPS uses ten bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019
32 votes -
The MIT License, line by line
10 votes -
A tester walks into a bar: Reviewing test techniques
4 votes -
Slack is banning users who have visited US-sanctioned countries (including Iran and Cuba) while using its app
20 votes