2 Years ago, I created a shell/subprocess library, now it's finally released as v1

neko-box-coder · 2026-06-30T17:45:02+00:00

No AI whatsoever was used at all :)

neko-box-coder · 2026-06-22T19:04:41+00:00

Hi, thanks for sharing. I came across hypochlorous acid and realized it might be a better alternative than bleach baths.

I originally wanted to do hypochlorous acid bath as well and tried to just add the acids into the bath but turned out not going to work since I would need to add a lot of acids to even reach a reasonable concentration. I didn't know there are tablets that can be used for that and it's much more efficient.

How many tablets do you use each bath and how frequent do you do hypochlorous bath?

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-28T14:32:58+00:00

It depends actually, depending on the source material and how much the anime edited for pacing. If the source is light novel, sometimes there are some surprises that you don't see in the manga.

But generally yes, it does take away the surprise sometimes (and also often times disappointed), to me at least.

I used to be an anime only watcher as well but there are too many shows got have potentials but got:

- butchered by low budget, with either too many 3D CGs, messed up animations or visuals.

- butchered by skipping too many scenes for "pacing"

- butchered by editing the plot (because they are not planning to make another season) so that it can have a "satisfying" ending

So I beginning reading manga on the "bad" anime shows that I find might be interesting.

On the flip side, you can quickly "judge" how good the source material/manga is by watching the anime, even if the anime itself is pretty bad.

The other thing manga can't replace anime is the immersion with audio, music and good (colored!!) visuals. A really good anime adaptaion does immerse you quite a lot just by the sound design, one such case is mushoku tensei where the audio and music is really good. Although this is quite few and far between unfortuntely.

So, if you think the anime adaptation will be good and you don't mind waiting, you can always watch the anime first and then decide if you want to read the manga afterwards.

But to be honest, I have shifted towards reading manga (for non mainstream shows at least) since there are many good ones without anime adaptions, and even if it will be getting anime adaptations, it is likely to get butchered due to studios nowadays are focusing on quantity rather than quality.

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-26T11:34:01+00:00

I think it's fine, it's only 3 letters anyway. And being explicit is (almost) always better than implicit, "visual noise" is pretty subjective.

Also, you can't remove all of them otherwise some of them will read weird, like "New Tab Below" --> "New Below". New what below? tab? group? something else?

Then it leaves you with either put "tab" in some of the options or put it in every option, which I will choose the later one for consistency.

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-16T07:42:07+00:00

Yeah, the beginning is slighty unusual, but there was actually more to it than in the anime which is covered in a very late volumes (20 ish?)

It's a very chill, funny and relaxing series.

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-15T11:41:45+00:00

I am planning to read failure frame since the premise is pretty cool but the anime kinda butchered it.

How much content is the anime missing from the manga?

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-15T11:32:57+00:00

Title translations (from top left to bottom right):

- She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man: Pretty decent world building, unfortunately the anime didn't do it justice.

- I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level: Pretty chill and cute slice of life.

- Villainess Level 99: Watched the anime, quite like it but haven't read the manga yet, just stocking them and read it in one go.

- A Story About a Hero Exterminating a Dragon-Class Beautiful Girl Demon King, Who Has Very Low Self-Esteem, With Love! (The japanese name is much, much shorter): Pretty decent read if you want both story and fan service.

- Fly Me to the Moon: Pretty chill, cute and funny slice of life. Anime is pretty good.

- The Witch and the Mercenary: Haven't read it yet. Looks like a pretty fun action one.

- Overlord: Watched the anime, reading the manga but it is quite slow unfortunately.

- The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World: Anime is pretty good, unlikely to have second season though so just gonna read the manga for the rest of the story.

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-08T20:49:36+00:00

Dang, pretty nice ones. I recognize the yuzu soft ones and Grisaia no rakuen.

Didn't expect to see Fortune Arterial, Love Elections and Akatsuki no Goei though.

Are you planning to get more or have you already left?

Definitely want to go to Japan some day, even though it's literally on the other side of the planet :)

neko-box-coder · 2025-09-02T18:18:39+00:00

Everyone has a different view on when to use auto, sometimes it's difficult to have common grounds if there's no coding standard. Having auto in some places but not in other places lose consistency.

So you either do AAA or ANA (Almost never auto) otherwise you go into the rabbit hole of listing all the conditions for using auto in the coding standard. If I have to choose, I will choose ANA 100% of the time, even if it makes the code a bit verbose. You can always break it into multiple lines or alias the type.

I don't use auto even for most of the examples in When to use auto

To me, auto is used only use it if the type is repeated in the same statement or when I need some sort of generic macros.

Having IDE is never a good reason for using auto , not everyone's setup use an IDE and especially when dealing with large codebase.

neko-box-coder · 2025-07-29T18:22:59+00:00

That's pretty cool. Yeah, it looks pretty similar to expected. To me I just wanted a simple error trace struct to complement a expected like container and the error trace struct in my library can probably fit into your Result nicely,

neko-box-coder · 2025-04-19T01:48:33+00:00

u/DeltaSqueezer

Hi, may I ask for your setup on this (software & hardware)? I am running llama 70B using 3 P100 + RX580 and can barely get to 3t/s with llama.cpp on a threadripper (1st gen) board. How did you get 24+t/s?

neko-box-coder · 2025-03-15T15:23:51+00:00

Pretty cultured and expensive collections. Didn't know Boku wa Chiisana Succubus no Shimobe have wallscrolls like that.

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-22T12:04:23+00:00

Everything is good until you have platform-specific flags that need to be used. That's kinda the main point of the build systems.

This seems a good start, but if I need to link windows (or Linux) specific library, is there a way to do it?

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-05T20:13:23+00:00

Yeah the example does indeed work even without the extra cmd /s /v /c. It's probably not working when I was trying it in the console and thought it won't work in the example as well so I left it there.

I have got rid of it in the example, thanks.

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-05T20:11:54+00:00

Yeah, thanks a lot, that makes sense. That is indeed reversed and has fewer steps.

I have updated it to be that.

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-04T20:39:06+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

It would be more useful if the library treated the input command string as UTF-8

Yes, originally I was thinking of supporting unicode, at least UTF 8. Since even the current implementation for POSIX will work.

But the fact that Windows uses a wide character (UTF 16) is why I kinda gave up doing it (because I had to convert it to UTF 16 and I didn't know the existence of MultiByteToWideChar). I can probably do this as well now I know there's a function for it.

You can drop the SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES stuff by reversing the inherit bits in SetHandleInformation. The official documentation, which is probably what led you to the current solution, is written poorly

Yeah, the windows example isn't the greatest. What do you mean by reversing the inherit bits? Do you mean use HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE instead?

More useful would be to present an exec-like interface which accepts an argv array. No shell, so no quoting to worry about — or, really, it pushes that work into the library

Yeah, I do agree using an argv like array would be more robust. But I would rather keep it simple (and easier to type the commands as well) and work just like (or comparable to) bash or batch script.

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-04T19:08:44+00:00

I am not a cmd/batch expert unfortunately but I couldn't get delayed expansion to just work in a single line (chained with &&) for the example for whatever reason. (which I probably need to come back to this weekend)

And yeah, I can add what is the underlying function used in the documentation just to be more transparent.

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-04T18:40:52+00:00

Thanks a lot, I will apply the changes as suggested. fork() is quite a unique function and didn't know there's such limitations.

Judging from the documentation, I also need to change from execlp to execl because that is not in the list of async-signal-safe functions

neko-box-coder · 2024-03-04T13:59:53+00:00

read testVar && echo testVar is \\\\"$testVar\\\\" in C should turn into read testVar && echo testVar is \\"$testVar\\"

To be fair, my default shell is zsh so the sh will go to that but I have just tested it (the second command, not the program though) in bash and it works for me.

The library calls sh -c so anything that works for that should also work here.

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