Radio DJ William B Williams' on air greeting, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Williams_(DJ)

I recreated my several hundred line + several plugins zsh config in a few dozen lines of fish and one plugin (fzf.fish), about 8 years ago. It’s been a joy to use.

This is an area I'm keeping an eye on - currently this 55" Gigabyte one is about as good as it gets, but it feels like it's straddling the line between monitor and TV, as it runs Android and supports CEC and eARC.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/S55U

Once a company like Iiyama, Dell or Philips releases a 65-75" model with Display Port, I'm just going to buy it. Fingers crossed they do.

They're pulling out all the stops. If you told me that whoever was in charge of the consumer versions of Windows was trying to drive it into the ground, I'd believe you.

They're working on Xbox too!

At this point probably there's no room for another Playstation-style video game console. My friend who plays only console-style video games, the sort of person who owned Wii-U and an Xbox One as well as that generation of Playstation, bought a gaming PC last year. He will undoubtedly buy a Switch 2 at some point, to play a Zelda or something, but why would you buy another Xbox?

So I think Xbox becomes a brand for video games with Windows and then gradually it loses relevance until one day the question is "Why isn't Minecraft on Steam like a proper video game?"

According to leaks with an excellent track recordWe are getting at least 1 more console, and possibly 2. The first (most likely) is a classic Xbox, the second is a handheld. After that, who knows?

All I know is that I own both an Xbox Series X and a PS5. I use the PS5 more. I also own a PC, and it sees more than 1,000 times the usage of either. I bought the PS5 for exclusives, and Sony began changing that. However there are still alot of older PS4/PS5 titles that are fun to play, and some games are just better with a controller and a TV.

That being said, I'm likely not going to purchase any other consoles.

The desire for controller + TV obviously also affected my console-gaming friend. So, the gaming PC is hooked up to a wireless controller and to his gaming display + audio setup, which was historically a ceiling mounted projector and surround speakers (he moved since I last spent hours playing games with him)

The PC means there's a wireless keyboard and some sort of pointing device, but they're just for launching games & basic admin.

Edited to add: Also WTF for refreshing the Xbox. Who is the audience for this product? What is your lead title? Another Halo? But there's going to be an excellent Halo for the PS5 and for PCs, right? A GTA? But people want the newer GTA which won't fit. Maybe I just don't understand the vision here.

To be fair, Microsoft did deliberately drive Nokia into the ground.

Nokia was driving pretty close to the ground before Microsoft ever got involved.

Well, many consider Elop to be a Microsoft asset.

Maybe the Finns got their mole in to extract revenge. Don't forget Linux is Finnish as well ;-)

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

The same thing's happening to books where being seen as 'a reader' is a much higher priority than being well read.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/booktok-tiktok...

Yet most people over a certain age probably have without realising. Haribo, Tropicana, lots of fruit juices, sweets and dairy products used Cochineal.

> if you care about technical excellence

Or accessibility.

The GOV.UK website has a list of UK bank holidays on it. If you add a .json to the end of the URL you get this, a thing of beauty.

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json

Neat, what does bunting mean in this context?

I think it exists to power this easter egg?: https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678 The value I guess depends on whether its appropriate to put up decorations ie a 'celebratory' holiday. It looks like the only non-bunting holidays on there right now are Good Friday (which is more solemn) and Orangemens' Day (which is pretty sectarian), but apparently in the past the Queen's funeral was another non-bunting holiday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789437

I think the same applies for many of the new breed of command line applications like fd and ag/rg.

Being able to use them intuitively trumps ubiquity, speed or features.

But it's not tradeoff! You can make default view useful without trading versatility.

Another annoying part is not supporting json or even CSV. Some tools got modernized with it (like iproute2 tool set), but for these you might as well do /proc scraping yourself...

That's true in general. But default view is still subjective. The challenge probably lies in recognizing the larges subset of your user base that would like it to be a certain consistent way.

ss is from the same batch of modernization as iproute2.

Depends on the use case.

If used in scripts, ubiquity and speed can be important. Then again, the output of ss is not ideal for script processing.

That's the problem, it's not good for humans, it's not great for scripts

Very curious what is wrong about the rg defaults.

The only one I change is to add `--no-ignore`.

Nothing.

fd, rg and ag all work how I expect them to work and the arguments and order fit in with my expectations for modern cli applications.

They're recursive, they ignore things I don't care about and I can just give them the string I'm looking for, no path, no -name or --recursive etc.

find and grep do similar things but work entirely differently and their args aren't even in the same format.

I've used tig just for this for as long as I can remember, probably 18+ years.