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Gábor Nyéki

@gabornyeki.com

Data and code enthusiast. www.gabornyeki.com

Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 13/05/2025

When writing prose, it makes sense to move around in the file character-by-character. But when reading, it is nice to move sentence-by-sentence. I wrote a little #Emacs minor mode to do that: github.com/gn0/sigh-mode

Sigh Mode activated in Emacs 30.1, highlighting the sentence "We can hardly suppose a parliament of hitherto speechless elders meeting together and agreeing to call a cow a cow and a wolf a wolf."

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Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 09/05/2025

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Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 02/04/2025

Sway is great but this is the time when I really wish that it was written in Rust or Go instead of C.

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Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 09/03/2025

It seems that Guido developed Python 1.0 on an SGI workstation. Honorable mentions to Linux and, since it's Jan 1994, 386BSD, as desirable porting targets. Around this time, software developed on expensive workstations was becoming accessible to the broader public. ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/pytho...

The final two paragraphs of Guido van Rossum's announcement of Python 1.0.0beta in January 1994. The last paragraph references SGI Irix, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and 386BSD.

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Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 09/02/2025

Dwitter is like Twitter but your 140 character message is a JavaScript function body that draws an animation in your browser. Instead of likes, it has awesomes because of course it does: www.dwitter.net/top/month

A still image of a post on Dwitter that animates an infinite space of colored squares.

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Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 06/02/2025

Unusual life hack: making Vim emulate Emacs. Saving files in insert mode by pressing ^X^S and replaying macros by pressing F4 are creature comforts of the day.

33 lines of Vim script that bind Ctrl-X Ctrl-S to saving the file, F3 to recording a macro, and F4 to saving a macro if currently recording and to replaying a previously recorded macro otherwise.

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