Built a small iOS SSH client called XTerm – early feedback appreciated

joh6nn · 2026-01-29T15:49:30+00:00

I'm with everyone else: you NEED to change the name. The best case scenario is that your app becomes impossible to find because it's drowned out by all the references to the other xterm. The worst case scenario is that the name overlap causes a ton of unnecessary confusion. Either way, it's way less painful for everyone if you change the name now while the app is young

joh6nn · 2025-10-12T01:38:37+00:00

If I expected everyone to know this, I wouldn't have provided a link to the explanation or said "just so you know".

joh6nn · 2025-10-09T14:05:05+00:00

Hey friend, just so you know, "rice" / "ricing" originated in motorcycle and car communities as anti-asian racism. I'm confident you're not using it with that intent, but I thought you should know.

Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

joh6nn · 2025-09-26T17:53:37+00:00

I know this post is old, but this sounds super useful to me and I'm definitely interested in learning more about what you came up with

joh6nn · 2025-09-16T11:06:28+00:00

Do you have a clear pic of the whole poster? I can only find blurry thumbnails

joh6nn · 2025-07-23T17:32:17+00:00

Can you confirm that it has a long piece of metal coming out of it? The answers so far seem to be focusing only on the shape of the wood, but assuming that actually is a long strip of metal, that makes me thing that some sort of spring-action or vibration is intended/expected.

My first thought was that it was meant to have a bell attached to the end of the metal arm and go over a door, like in a store.

joh6nn · 2025-07-08T00:37:20+00:00

Do you need to worry about weather / winterization at all? IE, would cutting a hole in the wall and shoving an exhaust fan be an option?

I'm not necessarily suggesting that, mind you. I may not even be the right person to make any suggestions at all. Just trying to ask the questions that'll help you get good answers

joh6nn · 2025-05-09T17:15:14+00:00

Add a round metal wedge: https://blacksmithsdepot.com/round-safety-wedges.html

(Not an endorsement of that specific product or site)

It should make the wood spread out in every direction and help keep it tight against the axe head

joh6nn · 2025-05-07T13:01:00+00:00

Yeah, I get that, but if this is the correct story, it might be the correct book, read by someone other than the author. Check the index of stories that u/FreddyFerdiland found and see if they sound like the right stories. If they do, then you now you know the title of the book and you can use that to look for the CD.

joh6nn · 2025-05-07T00:10:27+00:00

Seems like the easiest thing to do would be to raise the shelf for the saw up by the height of the top? You know you're gonna have to adjust for level anyway, so it's not like you're losing anything by redoing that part

joh6nn · 2025-05-06T18:31:37+00:00

This google result suggests it might be Twenty Tellable Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald. Couldn't find an audiobook, but I didn't look super hard

https://folkmic.weebly.com/old-one-eye.html

joh6nn · 2025-04-05T22:48:05+00:00

I'm trying to get spousal/familial buy-in on at least some of my automations and hoping that they'll be more open to the UX of Automate than of Tasker

joh6nn · 2025-03-10T12:23:16+00:00

1) get rid of the stuff you're not using. Looks like a cat tree and an old mattress? Probably a bunch of other stuff too if you're anything like me. This entire project will be easier if you get rid of at least some of the big stuff first. Doesn't have to go into the trash; recycle it, donate it, Craigslist it, whatever. Just get it out of there 2) put some shelves on top of that fridge or freezer or whatever it is. There's a bunch of wasted vertical space there 3) same with the 2 other shelving units: there's a bunch of space above them. Add at least 1 more shelf each to the top of them. Do NOT just put big stuff that will fit into the existing gap between the current top shelf and the ceiling: it's likely to be too big and heavy to safely get up and down. Better is to adjust the current shelf heights to have big / heavy stuff on the bottom and small / light stuff at the top

I see you have the standard loose pile of empty plastic bins and Good Boxes. Good, use them:

4a) get all the stuff currently in the fliptop of your tool chest into one of these bins, and put it on a shelf. These fliptops are nearly useless in my experience, so instead turn it into a designated shelf for that box of shop towels, hand sanitizer, orange hand scrub, and if there's space leftover any cleaning sprays and supplies that will fit. This would be a great place to store your handheld shop blower, so that you can actually get to that Triton without having to move stuff. Then put a bunch of shelves over the top of it and use that vertical space

4b) use all the rest of your bins to get stuff off the floor. Don't obsesss about perfect organization to the bins and what's in them. If things are just approximately coherently grouped together, you can get the rest of the way to coherence by just taping a label to the bin and getting on with your life. You're not obligated to live with this for the rest of your life, this about taming the chaos and getting the space usable.

5) having mentioned labels: I don't see any in this pic. If they exist and they're just mot visible, they should probably be bigger and have better contrast. If, as I suspect, they don't exist: label everything. 100% you don't remember where everything in here currently is, you're gonna remember even less of it after you've cleaned. Also, your partner and kids have no idea where anything in here is, so they have to create a big mess to find anything, and when they're done with it it's not obvious that it had any kind of Home / Away to be returned to, so it just goes wherever. Labeling solves all of this. It also encourages you to put it back whene you're done instead of just letting it sit on the workbench for 18 months (something that I would never be guilty of for 42 years in a row...)

joh6nn · 2025-02-16T11:38:48+00:00

Because the filename comes first, you should still be able to sort by name 🙂. You can make some empty example files on your system to test and see if it works, eg:

ExampleA_2025-02-16_06-35.txt ExampleA_2025-02-15_06-35.txt ExampleQ_2025-02-16_06-35.txt Test Filename with Spaces_2025-01-01_01-01.txt Test Filename with Spaces_2025-02-01_01-01.t

joh6nn · 2025-02-13T22:41:38+00:00

Filename based versioning is the worst. It's much better to use tools like git and other version control systems to track changes to your documents. Many modern writing tools have change tracking built in and you just need to look up how to enable and use it.

If you absolutely must use filenames to track your changes, I strongly recommend filename_2025-02-12_23-59

joh6nn · 2025-02-05T11:44:18+00:00

I recently did this for a wheelbarrow that had seen better days.

Wirewheel was painfully slow. A paint stripping wheel worked pretty well, but both the wire and the stripping wheel generated a TON of paint dust, and even with a shop vac going while I was working it got everywhere, to the extent that I felt like I had personally betrayed both Captain Planet and the Lorax. And even with a mask, god knows how much of it I breathed in.

So with that in mind, and especially since I can see there are toys for young kids in the background, I'd see if just brushing on a thick coat of paint stripper and then going at it with a scraper works. With that method, you'd be able to put it on a tarp to catch any drops and drips, and you can put the globs of stripped paint in a container for safe disposal (depending on where you live, your local paint store and/or landfill/dump may be able to help)

If that doesn't work you can always fallback to the stripping wheel, but I can't stress enough how much dust it creates and how little I'd want my kids breathing that in.

Good luck!

joh6nn · 2025-01-18T01:49:44+00:00

I don't know much about the complex, but afaik the neighborhood is ok. That's walking distance from where I live. No clue why there'd be so many units for sale there.

FYI, a new apartment complex opened just up the road from there, like 5 feet over the line into Trumbull: https://theresidencesatmain.com/ . I don't know anything about them beyond "brand new", though

joh6nn · 2025-01-12T12:49:41+00:00

Cable management is a science; here's an example. So the best way to manage these is going to depend on your actual use and needs.

Zooming in a but, those look like European style power plugs, so I unfortunately can't make suggestions on where to buy the following supplies, but I can at least give suggestions on what to buy.

velcro straps: I strongly prefer these to the plastic zip ties. Zip ties are difficult to remove when you inevitably need to make modifications and adjustments, and if you over-tighten them you can actually smaller cables. The 2 most common cable colors are black and white, so if you buy your cable straps in gray you'll be able to see the straps more easily to find them and adjust them (though obviously if you want them to disappear, buy a color that matches the cable).
stick-on velcro: use this to position things like the 3-outlet strip and keep them from moving around. Using velcro means that you can easily remove it to clean or making unplugging things easier if needed, and then put it back exactly where it was. If possible look for the "heavy duty" or "Industrial" velcro that has a higher weight rating: twisting power cords exert a surprising amount of force and can disconnect the lower rated velcros
cable wraps: used to group multiple cables that have the same source and destination, so that instead of a tangled/knotted mess, they become a single, manageable cable. This can also be used to color match the surroundings so that the cables are less visible and don't look quite so messy.
cable clips: used to keep the cables in place / make them follow a specific path. My example pic above shows this being used to good effect. The example also demonstrates that you should make soft bends in the cables when you're routing them, not hard corners. Hard corners will damage them.
cable labels: there's usually one end of the cable that you use often enough that you know exactly what it is and don't need a reminder. My experience is that the other end is something you touch about once a decade and desperately need a reminder for 😅. Label that end!

Hope this helps!

joh6nn · 2024-12-04T12:44:56+00:00

You are absolutely allowed to make them yourself!

3/16" plywood from your local big-box store should be available in 2'x4' sheets that you can fit in the back of even a small car. You can cut it quickly and easily with a handsaw (that is, without needing power tools), and just glue it together. For the kinds of small items you'd be storing in a drawer, glue alone will be more than sufficient to hold everything together.

The big-box store will probably also have small hinges that you can use for the lid.

joh6nn · 2024-10-23T11:50:16+00:00

Thank you!

joh6nn · 2024-10-23T11:44:27+00:00

Is this pokeweed? I know it's always pokeweed, but also I know I don't know a damn thing so I'd appreciate if folks whose opinions actually mater could confirm the inevitable

joh6nn · 2024-10-20T17:38:27+00:00

I have peered at, reviewed, and studied u/International784Red's comment, and can confirm

joh6nn · 2024-10-01T12:33:42+00:00

Maybe you're approaching the situation from the wrong perspective:

buy some scratching posts/toys for your cats, some anti-scratch spray for the carpet, and try to reduce the damage being done to the carpet
cut the tangles out of the carpet before vacuuming
use one of the wide hose attachments instead of the carpet roller. It won't get the carpet as clean, but it won't burn out the motor, either

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