Engineering at Airbnb. Instapaper contributor. Ghostty maintainer.
Former engineering leader at Pinterest and game developer at Maxis / Electronic Arts.
Scientia Potentia Est
| Web | https://www.indelible.org |
| GitHub | https://github.com/jparise |
Elvish is modern shell with a nice scripting language. We've had shell integration support for it in Ghostty for a while.
One area where our shell integration falls a bit short is OSC 133 semantic prompts. Elvish's hooks and prompt functions unfortunately don't provide enough customization to build a reliable OSC 133 implementation.
So instead, I've implemented OSC 133 directly in Elvish, which also has the advantage of benefiting all terminals.
I've had an Alfred Custom Web Search for searching @letterboxd for a while, but I wanted a nicer integration, so I built a workflow that makes it easy to search Letterboxd for films and people from within Alfred.
I'm also exploring per-highlight block identifiers, which Obsidian uses to cross-link to specific blocks within notes.
https://help.obsidian.md/links#Link+to+a+block+in+a+note
These also give us an unambiguous way to detect existing (sync'ed) highlights within a note. I was previously relying on embedded hyperlinks for that.
I'm back to working on the Instapaper Obsidian plugin. Our most requested feature is customizable templates. I've started my making the article properties ("frontmatter") user-configurable.
I appreciated the subtle AppleScript nod at the end of WWDC24's “Bring your app's core features to users with App Intents” session.
“The daemon, Beastie, gained lasting association with BSD via a drawing by John Lasseter of Lucasfilm being used on the cover of the Unix System Manger’s Manual that was published in 1984 by USENIX for 4.2BSD.”
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution
