Random annoyances

[stefnotch]

Phone numbers

• No checksum digits, leading to calling the wrong number

UIs

• No "command pattern" that is available to other tools, it'd be lovely to be able to control my web browser with a terminal/scripting interface. Or a git gui that has both a gui and a place for entering commands. Or a file browser where I can do cd .., find , ...

Git

• https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/01/confusing-git-terminology/

Gimp

• No auto-saving

Node.js

• No sensible path module, like getting the first part of a path or checking if a path starts with something isn't built-in and has to be hacked in
  • Paths are strings, which can be wrong, and splitting paths isn't all that safe
• ESM vs Commonjs
• No Typescript by default

Rust

• Cargo takes up too much space for one-off projects Cache usage meta tracking issue rust-lang/cargo#7150

Python

• No good, deterministically reproducible dependency management.
• Not easily embeddable
• No easy way of taking a Python application and getting cross-platform executables
• PyInstaller having a one-file mode that can litter the temp directory on Windows. Using the one-folder mode should be preferable https://pyinstaller.org/en/v5.8.0/operating-mode.html#how-the-one-folder-program-works

Windows

• No awesome package manager by default, I want https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/97

%temp% folder on Windows

• https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/temp-files-generated-by-clexe-never-gets-deleted/1312946
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60974427/reduce-log-and-other-temporary-file-creation-in-visual-studio-2019
• etc

Visual Studio

• Same name as VSCode, which makes using the windows search a pain
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60974427/reduce-log-and-other-temporary-file-creation-in-visual-studio-2019

Obsidian

• Currently creates an entirely new .obsidian folder whenever you open a folder https://forum.obsidian.md/t/global-settings/1364

Distributing software with dependencies

• For Downline, I need a way to say "depends on Python and ffmpeg". I want that to be cross platform.
  • There is https://github.com/0install/0install , but nobody has that installed.
  • There might be some cosmo-blink combo that lets me target Linux, and still distribute it for every platform simultaneously. Universal binaries with all dependencies hehe
  • https://github.com/teaxyz/cli ?

Signals

• Signals are troublesome with Typescript solidjs/solid#1575