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Sindre Sorhus

@sindresorhus

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New app: Supercharge — Improve your Mac experience with a bunch of useful functionality

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Sindre Sorhus

@sindresorhus

7 years

How I do open source

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In 2018, I made my computer take a screenshot of my GitHub profile each day. Here's the result as a timelapse.

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1 year

New App Day Progress — Keep track of the time remaining in your day, right in the menu bar

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6 years

I learned web development in the early days (long before GitHub) with the "View source" button. The trend of generated class-names makes me sad...

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6 years

Let's take a moment to appreciate how awesome programming is; You can single-handedly build almost anything you can imagine. It's like a superpower. A superpower anyone can acquire.

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4 years

GitHub is now sponsoring my open-source work on GitHub Sponsors 🙏🎉

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7 years

My latest Mac app is out: Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs. Made by @kornelski and me.

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5 years

macOS 10.15 switches default shell from bash to zsh:

Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac

Starting with macOS Catalina, your Mac uses zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell. You can make zsh the default in earlier versions of macOS as well.

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4 years

Node.js 15 makes 7 of my packages obsolete. This is a good thing. 👌

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2 years

My app got rejected multiple times by App Review. I got tired of it, so I asked ChatGPT to write me a convincing reply. It actually worked. App got accepted.

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1 year

The beauty of native apps

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5 years

Introducing Gifski version 2 ✅ Refreshed UI ✅ Video trimming ✅ Precise control of dimensions ✅ No forced save dialog ✅ Copy, share, or drag the GIF ✅ System service

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5 years

Announcing my latest Mac app: Dato—A better menu bar clock with calendar and time zones.

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7 years

npm 5 is out! - Faster - Indentation is preserved for package.json ✨ - `--save` is default - No more corrupt cache - Offline mode - Lockfile

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1 year

"In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,”" *unexpected* 🤣

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

Google Domains is "winding down following a transition period," with Squarespace taking over the business and assets...

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7 years

Introducing Kap 2 - Screen recorder. Redesigned.

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7 years

Public Announcement: It's possible to set an emoji as the browser cursor.

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6 years

CPUs are being adapted for JavaScript now.

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@steipete More precisely: ARMv8.3 adds a new float-to-int instruction with errors and out-of-range values handled the way that JavaScript wants. The previous insns to get JavaScript's semantics were much slower. JavaScript's numbers are double by default so it needs this conversion a lot.

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10 years

One of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what other people say you can't.

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5 years

Some observations from having merged thousands of pull requests in the past few years: - Almost no one writes a good pull request title - More than half don't know about the `Fixes #112 ` syntax - ~30% don't run tests locally before submitting a PR - ~40% don't include docs/tests

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6 years

My sister’s (white!) Samoyed goes to dog kindergarten and here’s him everyday afterwards. 😝

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7 years

You can now search and kill processes by port number with the latest `fkill-cli` version, thanks to @kevvayo .

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6 years

🦄 2019 goals 🦄 - Write more blog posts - Exercise and play badminton again - Less Twitter - Open-source my dotfiles - PR queue zero - Finish projects in my `todo` directory - Read more books - Get 8+ hours of sleep every night - Ship 3 more macOS apps - Do my 2018 goals 🙄

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5 years

I’m still undecided whether TypeScript is worth it. On one side it’s awesome to have types, confidence, ease of refactoring, inline docs, etc. On the other side, I waste so much time on its bugs, missing features, incorrect type defs, tooling, and complexity.

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2 years

New app: Amazing AI — Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion

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I have a high price tier on my macOS apps, not because I'm greedy or earn a lot from them, but rather because life is too short to deal with idiots. For example, free & cheap apps require much more support. I'd rather sell fewer copies in favor of getting higher quality customers

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@sindresorhus

3 years

Announcing my latest Mac app: One Thing — Put a single task or goal in your menu bar

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7 years

New 🐙 Refined GitHub feature: Now shows possible related issues when you're open a new issue, thanks to @shroudedcode !

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6 years

New JS features in Node.js 10 - Promise #finally - Async generators - Async iterators - String #trimStart /trimEnd - Standardized `global` object (`window` alternative) - RegExp: `s` (dotAll) & `u` (unicode) flags, named captures, lookbehinds - Optional `(e)` in `try {} catch(e) {}`

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2 years

Midjourney generates the most amazing app icons.

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6 years

Node.js 10 is out 🙌 - Faster and more stable - V8 6.2 ➡ 6.6 - Promisified fs module - Stable native API - console.table() - EventEmitter #off () - Async iterator support for streams - stream.pipeline & stream.finished - The WHATWG URL API is now a global

Node.js — Node v10.0.0 (Current)

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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@sindresorhus

7 years

Announcing my latest Mac app: Black Out lets you quickly hide sensitive parts of an image.

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Sorry to all my hard-core Node.js followers; I'm into Swift now. The type system won me over. And no, I don't want TypeScript.

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2 years

Announcing my latest Mac app (free): Velja — Powerful browser picker

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@sindresorhus

4 years

I spent yesterday and today manually renaming the `master` branch to `main` in all my (1K+) repos.

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@sindresorhus

3 years

Announcing my latest Mac app: Pure Paste — Paste as plain text by default

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8 years

I just published “Fabulous macOS Tips & Tricks”

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2 years

The twist is. The app is a ChatGPT app, so the app kinda got itself accepted. And so it begins.

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@sindresorhus

3 years

I made another (free) Mac app: Speediness — Check your internet speed

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@sindresorhus

3 years

Here are my App Store numbers for the past year. I frequently get questions privately about earnings/downloads/etc, so it seems a lot of people are curious about it.

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4 years

TIL: You can style your GitHub readme with CSS.

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Sindre Sorhus

@sindresorhus

6 years

``` $ npx sindresorhus ```

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4 years

My life is now complete. A photo of me cuddling with dogs ended up in this awesome book.

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5 years

My tips for open source: - Be kind ❤️ - Don’t be sloppy - Respect different backgrounds & experience levels - Read contribution guidelines - Learn how to use GitHub properly - Include test/docs/types - Run tests locally - Check for typos - Double-check contribution - Have fun! 🤗

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5 years

This wall at the metro is really active on GitHub

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10 months

Coding in a nutshell

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2 years

New macOS & iOS app: Aiko — High-quality on-device transcription Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more.

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6 years

React: Make the simple things hard and the hard things simple

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6 years

We need a Dark Mode API for the web. I would really like it if websites respected my dark mode setting in macOS Mojave (and other OSes with dark mode).

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4 years

Node.js package maintainers: Get ready for ESM!

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5 years

Announcing Chalk v3 🖍 Terminal text styling for Node.js Massively improved performance and also faster to import.

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6 years

Another minor but very useful new GitHub feature. GitHub now has a "Delete fork" button in merged PRs.

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6 years

Feels good

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My mom asked what I do on GitHub. I sent her this.

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6 years

Something @SamVerschueren and I have been working on for a while: ow - JavaScript function argument validation for humans

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9 years

Looks like GitHub (including @AtomEditor ) is finally dumping CoffeeScript in favor of ES2015 (using @babeljs ).

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7 years

Programming

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7 years

Node.js' insistence on being familiar to Unix people has hurt its developer experience more than they realize. Even after this many years, the docs are still subpar. Docs for `fs.mkdir` only says: `Asynchronous mkdir(2)` You shouldn't have to be Unix graybeard to use Node.js.

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6 years

✨ 2018 in review ✨ 💏 Wedding 🏠 Bought my first apartment 🦄 Another amazing year of doing open source full-time 🙌 Became fully funded on Patreon

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6 years

New Gifski (video to GIF macOS app) version is out with a refreshed completion view where you can drag & drop the GIF, show it in finder, or share it. The time remaining is shown during longer conversions. And you can now cancel the conversion.

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8 years

`np` now features a beautiful interactive UI to guide you through publishing a new version of an npm package.

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6 years

I'm trying out a different direction. Thoughts?

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5 years

Improved it. It now draws the coffee smoke even outside the window and the window animates on a curved path. Thanks for all the feedback. 🙌

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@sindresorhus

5 years

I'm prototyping a new animation for the Lungo welcome window. The timings could use some tweaking, but thoughts on the concept?

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4 years

I made a new macOS app: Shareful — Makes the system share menu even more useful by providing some commonly needed share services. Any app with a "Share" button now has a Copy, Save, and Open action.

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5 years

You can now support my open source work directly on GitHub: 🎉🙌

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11 years

My code is broken, can't figure out why. http://t.co/c3EaILsbNP

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7 years

Open source maintenance

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“Pull request welcome”

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This is my actual LinkedIn profile. I don't really get job offers anymore.

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3 years

Two of my Mac apps just passed 100K downloads 🎉

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3 years

Announcing my latest app: Actions — Additional actions for the Shortcuts app It's free and available for macOS and iOS

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6 years

I'm very excited to announce AVA 1.0 🚀

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I'm excited to announce Got v10 🌐 ✅ Rewritten in TypeScript ✅ Refined API ✅ Brotli support ✅ DNS caching ✅ Custom metadata across request & hooks ✅ Fixed all known bugs Got is a human-friendly HTTP request library for Node.js.

Release v10.0.0 · sindresorhus/got

We're excited to announce Got 10! 🎉 This release has been in the works for almost a year and has been a major undertaking. Got was fully rewritten in TypeScript, which helped us catch many bugs...

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8 years

Kills processes from a nice user interface.

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6 years

Controversial opinion: Stale issues in open source projects are fine. Auto-closing issues based on staleness is an annoyance to users and can drive potential contributors away. There must be a better way of handling issue overload.

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4 years

macOS Big Sur tip: You can drag and drop any element from the new Control Center into the menu bar.

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3 years

Announcing my latest app: 🌿Pandan — Time awareness in your menu bar

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4 years

Phishing warning. Just got this in my email. Be careful.

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8 years

macOS tip: Press the Option key in a file context menu to get the ability to copy the path of the file. Useful for the terminal.

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4 years

Show me your open source project and I'll give you some quick feedback. Here's the twist, you must also give some constructive feedback to someone else's project in this thread.

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macOS 12.2 on a fully spec'd M1 MacBook Pro 16" 🤷‍♂️

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4 years

Really awesome that you can now show a README on your GitHub Profile. I've included a lot of cool stuff in mine:

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3 years

Thanks, JS. > Number.isInteger(1.0000000000000001); true

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6 years

We're currently working on finishing Kap 3. It has a beautiful new UI and it's rewritten in Next.js (React) to be faster and much more stable. You can try out the beta here: > Kap is a macOS screen recorder built with web technologies.

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2 years

I released a simple plain text editor. (Requires macOS 13)

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1 year

App update rejected because the app contains a link to a FAQ on my website, and my website has a donate link (should be in-app purchase according to Apple). This is getting ridiculous. Solution: Just moved that specific FAQ to a gist 🤷‍♂️

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6 years

My new business card

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6 years

fast-cli now supports also measuring the upload speed of your internet connection.

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5 years

Announcing my latest Mac app: Plash—Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper.

GitHub - sindresorhus/Plash: 💦 Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper

💦 Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper. Contribute to sindresorhus/Plash development by creating an account on GitHub.

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8 years

Neat! Facebook Messenger supports Markdown code blocks.

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7 years

Node.js is considering adding built-in Websockets support. Vote up the issue and comment good arguments for this, please.

Adding Websocket support to core · Issue #19308 · nodejs/node

The original thread where adding this was discussed #1010 was closed with a decision by the iojs TC to rather implement lower level buffer methods, but that was abandoned. There is an open EPS to a...

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That feeling when someone opens a PR on your GitHub repo and it has a well-written explanation, docs, tests, and you can just click the merge button right away.