Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Good Terminal Apps

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Wave

Wave is an open-source terminal with superpowers, integrating file previews, file editing, AI, web browsing, and workspace organization.

Warp

Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground …

Enable and Disable Key Repeating in macOS

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Run the following command in terminal and then restart your Mac to enable key repeating by pressing and holding.

    defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    
  2. Run the following command in terminal …

Async in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Minimizing usage of async Rust. Refactor coded as much as possible to be in sync functions, and have async just be little "router wrappers" for waiting on stuff and feeding it …

Common Issues and Solutions for GitHub Actions

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Error: No space left.

Symptom: A GitHub Actions workflow fails with the error message "No space left".

Possible Solutions: 1. An Azure VM mounts an (ephemeral) disk to /mnt which is …

Use Docker Containers for GitHub Actions

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Tips & Traps

  1. Docker container is available in Ubuntu and Windows but not macOS in GitHub Actions due to license issues. To use Docker in macOS in GitHub Actions, you have to …