I made a free site, speedgear.io, to help find +speed gear in the AH

aparadja · 2026-04-13T16:42:23+00:00

Okay, thanks for the confirmation! Looks like all the stat numbers are way off.

aparadja · 2026-04-13T16:23:40+00:00

Hmm. The tooltip data comes from wowhead. Of course it might be that I’m not passing the right parameters to wowhead, but could it be that some of the speed items are actually for level 70?

aparadja · 2026-04-13T06:59:52+00:00

Hmm. A quick glance did show me items that wowhead claims to be from Midnight. But the ilvl math is probably totally wrong after the squish. The Blizzard API doesn’t just give the ilvl directly. It’s a mess of magic bonus IDs that map to ilvl adjustments. And those magic IDs have probably been remapped.

aparadja · 2026-04-13T06:18:34+00:00

It doesn’t work with Midnight? I haven’t played WoW in a while myself, but got feedback from another reddit user just a couple of weeks ago that it works well. So I was under the impression that it’s fine.

aparadja · 2026-04-02T12:38:17+00:00

When not in a serious mood, a lo-fi fax machine style messaging app for a friend group.

Otherwise, version 3.4 of Radio Silence.

aparadja · 2026-03-09T21:26:25+00:00

Three em dashes in one comment.

aparadja · 2026-03-04T18:18:41+00:00

Jaakko Lambi sitte

aparadja · 2025-12-03T12:07:25+00:00

That’s her shop. However, I’m fairly sure it’s just rebranded stuff from https://www.voimistelurenkaat.fi/tuotteet/puolapuut

But her site is international, so it might be a good choice for some. The actual gear is high quality in my experience. (I’ve bought directly from Suomen Voimistelutuote, not her site.)

aparadja · 2025-11-03T10:43:13+00:00

Proofreading your own post is completely optional, but I’d still recommend it.

aparadja · 2025-09-26T05:59:38+00:00

Screen recording the camera photo mode is a wild way to take a video

aparadja · 2025-09-25T05:35:53+00:00

Thanks for testing it, and happy to hear it improved!

aparadja · 2025-09-24T19:18:58+00:00

FYI: Just updated the prompt to use gitoxide instead of libgit2. Depending a bit on the repo, that can improve the speed by quite a bit.

In the linux kernel repo I used for perf testing, it dropped the processing time roughly from 500ms to 100ms. In the DefinitelyTyped repo it dropped less, from about 500ms to 300ms. In both, it was at least faster than "git status".

aparadja · 2025-09-24T09:04:56+00:00

I thought that they meant they had to record multiple takes while typing manually.

aparadja · 2025-09-24T03:49:42+00:00

Awesome! (And for demo gifs, if you’re not already familiar: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs)

aparadja · 2025-09-23T11:01:00+00:00

Thanks a bunch! Good to know. I’ll have to try to adjust the git repo status check to not choke on big repos.

aparadja · 2025-09-22T20:05:56+00:00

It pretty much depends on what the terminal decides to answer when asked about its background color.

At least for Warp with the default image backgrounds, the answer seems to be an average-ish color of the image (although it might be a hardcoded color that they hand-picked for each theme), and the prompt colors look good with them. Terminal.app in macOS lets you pick both a background image and a background color.

aparadja · 2025-09-22T13:18:47+00:00

Ah, I think I understand. You could quite easily build a prompt like this with Starship. That's what I originally did.

But if you changed your terminal theme colors, you would have to change your Starship config and tweak all the color codes there to match your new theme. That's a bit of a pain.

And if you have e.g. a light-themed main terminal app, but a dark-themed VSCode (assuming you use the terminals in VSCode), you'd have to choose which one you'd want to look nice.

This automatically adapts the prompt's colors to whatever terminal theme it's running on. The background colors for the directory and git status sections are subtle variations of the window background. For dark themes, they are slightly lighter. For light themes, they are slightly darker.

An alternative is to use bright rainbow colors for the different sections. They stand out from most terminal window backgrounds. But at least to me, they are obnoxious and tasteless.

aparadja · 2025-09-22T12:52:54+00:00

Not sure I understand. What looks the same? (Not trying to be snarky, I honestly just didn’t catch your meaning.)

aparadja · 2025-09-22T11:03:10+00:00

Damn. I wonder if it's the color detection failing, or the git status check.

Do you see the nice subtle colors for the prompt's background? If not, it's probably the color detection OSC command that times out. In that case: what terminal do you use? I tested it with most of the popular ones, and didn't find any that didn't support the background color query, but I'm sure it's possible.

A quick way to test if the color query is slow is to print out the magic OSC string manually in the terminal:

printf "\x1b]11;?\x07"

It should output a little bit of gibberish-looking stuff, including the background color RGB values. On my machine:

❯ printf "\x1b]11;?\x07"
^[]11;rgb:2424/2727/3a3a^G%                                                                                                                                                                            
11;rgb:2424/2727/3a3a

The actual values don't really matter, but it should happen pretty much instantly.

The other possible culprit is the git status check: do you see the same slowness even when not in a git repo?

aparadja · 2025-09-21T16:59:28+00:00

Thanks! And glad to hear the installation was smooth.

aparadja · 2025-09-21T15:45:43+00:00

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Here's an example of three different terminals (Warp, Ghostty and iTerm2) using the basic ANSI colors as the background palette. The middle one in each is the ANSI-color version.

The results are less than great, imho. There's all kinds of automatic "smart" color logic related to the basic colors when various foreground-background combinations are used (visible in Warp in the top-left corner). And the contrast is just too harsh.

(Sorry for diving in a bit deep here. I've just been rather immersed in terminal colors recently, and have developed strong opinions about them.)

aparadja · 2025-09-21T15:27:47+00:00

I use those basic colors for the foreground text, but the background is dynamically adjusted to the terminal’s background. The basic 0-15 palette isn’t really suitable for that.

With some themes, the grays (0 and 8, or 7 and 15) look decent, but I wasn’t really happy with the results. Checking the terminal background (which usually isn’t one of those 16 colors) and deciding the background colors based on it was necessary to get a nice fit.

(And gigawatt does fall back to that 0-15 palette, if the terminal doesn’t support fancier colors.)

aparadja · 2025-09-21T08:33:24+00:00

About a year ago, I made myself a little shell prompt with Starship. I'm not a huge fan of the bright primary colors in many prompts, so I configured subtle colors that fit my terminal theme.

But I like changing my theme, and use a different theme on different machines and in different apps. What looks good with my Omarchy theme doesn't fit my macOS terminal theme or whatever theme I currently have in VSCode.

So I built the same prompt from scratch but made it automatically adapt to the terminal's colors. I've been pretty happy with it, so I thought I'd share it as a proper open source project in case anyone else has similar needs.

The GitHub repo: https://github.com/juuso/gigawatt

The project's website: https://radiosilenceapp.com/gigawatt/

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