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Haven
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// This is a wiki of sorts, although, since no one else can edit it,
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// it's just a personal wiki, or maybe just a collection of articles.
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// Might name it like "writings" or even simply "db".
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As computer power user, I often get unhappy, especially as a result of
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the changes that have happened over the last decade:
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- almost every application I use looks and feels different,
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- senseless animations vie for my attention and add delays,
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- many applications are hard to control from the keyboard,
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- visual clutter distracts me from tasks at hand,
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- lack of customizability sets all those problems in stone,
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- and unbelievable hardware requirements, stemming from accidental complexity
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and a general lack of care, push me to buy unnecessarily expensive equipment
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just so that I don't feel like being _used by the computer_.
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*haven* is an umbrella project for a range of mostly desktop
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applications. The greater goal is to create a fresh computing environment for
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daily work and play--easily controllable, reasonably complex, both visually
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and internally unified and last but not least responsive.
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I'm not trying to create anything novel but to achieve something
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*elegant* and *pleasing*.
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.Related articles:
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- https://lobste.rs/s/ksbcw5/12_principles_for_diverging_desktop +
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While I don't fully agree with the vision, we have similar concerns.
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Further reading
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---------------
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To get a better sense of the direction this project is going in, you can take
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a look at a list of GoodThings and BadThings. If you're of the shallower kind,
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have a look at Identity, and if you're interested in the overall design,
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consult Technicalities.
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Status
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Trying to gain momentum, there's an astounding amount of work to be done. Hop
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on if you know Go well, my contact is on the link:/[front page]. Top priority
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tasks:
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- [x] start writing a detailed wiki for propagation purposes
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- [ ] create a basic terminal emulator for `TERM=dumb` (exercise)
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- [ ] create a basic CSV viewer (simple, useful)
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- [ ] create an IRC client (lots of know-how, trivial UI)
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- [ ] create a basic vi-inspired text editor (required component for later)
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- [ ] create a personal wiki/organiser (urgent)
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Mockups
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// TODO: Mockups can be just included from different places.
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// SVG is too precise, must use HTML/CSS.
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.ht -- terminal emulator
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+++
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<div style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 2px; background: white;">
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
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This is just supposed to be a simple terminal emulator application.
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It ought to be a rather simple exercise.
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</pre>
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</div>
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+++
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While I despise the Unix terminal, I can't just stop using Unix tools, and so
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I'll need a means to interact with them. One day it might evolve into
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a graphical terminal with a tty compatibility layer, which would need
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integrating a custom POSIX shell such as https://github.com/mvdan/sh[].
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