If you were 30 failures away from your goal... how fast do you wanna fail?

#stolen_quote

curl has options for every letter in the alphabet 🥱

Spotify is always open in my first workspace whenever I start my PC—my go-to for music, lo-fi, and focus sessions.

I initially used the Flatpak version, but patching it (👀 [SpotX-Bash] users know) wasn't working as expected. So, I went hunting for alternatives and found the official [spotify distribution url].

Only one problem: it's .deb file, and I'm on Fedora. So every update meant manually:
- Downloading the .deb file
- Extracting it with dpkg-deb
- Moving it to a safe location
- Symlinking the binary & .desktop file for easy access

And as a true engineer, I took the longer route (😂): Automating it all!

I wrote a script that:
- Downloads and extracts the latest Spotify version
- Places it in the right location
and symlinks everything for easy use
- Checks for updates & installs them

Even though I update every 3-4 months (because Spotify rarely drops major features), at least I "worked on my Bash skills extensively" after my [PR] to [ab-download-manager]. 😎

I also implemented the strategy pattern to make it easy to add support for other distros.

Key takeaway - bash switch statements are ugly 😂.

Check it out: [spotinstaller] or even better contribute support for your distro !

and I just bought Telegram Premium just to check it out, apparently 74.99ETB is 3.99$ 😐

This was fun to read and the comments 😂

[Any bored older C devs?]

https://youtu.be/M2X-t7d8g9s?t=3866

Emotional Damage

Suuus ...

https://t.me/atc_news/28513

okayyy😁😁

Something I learned this week: You can either always be right or create something new.. but not both. People who never want to be wrong will say your idea won’t work, and at first, they’ll be right. Because doing something new means failing along the way. But if you keep going, you’ll prove that the real path to success isn’t about always being right.. it’s about learning from being wrong.

@selfmadecoder

Inflation is deadly indeed !

https://redd.it/1jr7uyh

Do you know that you can?

a random yt shorts 😂

A friend sent me this 😂 and thats a lot of DABO

The first person to increase app version number 12 times until my release workflow works 😂. But I gotta say I learned a lot from each mistake.

Anyways its for a Gnome app I am building. I will share updates soon.

I learned about squashing commits using the git rebase command.

As you can see in the previous post, when trying to make the release github action work, I fix one thing and push that with the same commit just increasing the version number (to make the automatic build get triggered). After I got it right my commit history was a mess so i searched on how I can make it clean and got the git rebase method and its really simple.

git rebase -i HEAD~N 

- where N is the number of commits you want to squash, mine was 14

This will open your default editor, mine is nvim btw (you can set the $EDITOR variable to nvim in your .zshrc, .bashrc or .config/fish/config.fish to get rid of that nano bullshit 😂)

Then you will change all the pick`s to `squash except the first one to squash all the others to the first one, after that you will enter a new commit or leave the old one and you are done.

The video is me learning vim macros along the way. (changing all pick`s to `squash)

I built [mycaps] last summer to show you guys how I use my keyboard partially and today I got another cool method of remapping modifier keys (meta, alt, ctrl, shift) called [homerow mods]. its really cool and I setup my keyboard today and learning it really well since its really intuitive (at least for me).

You should check it out if you are showing gang signs to press 2 and more modifiers with the default layout 😂😂.

Um using a tool called [keyd] but you can use [KMonad] too which is cross-platform.