That’s super easy to fix with tools like entr. That’s what I use when I write Markdown documents so I can automatically generate the plain text file to a PDF document using Pandoc, and preview it simply by saving the file in Neovim. :)

Neovim. No other editor comes close to it.

You need to add some sort of context. Posting a single link without even a title explaining what it is, makes it look like random spam.

I’ve been using XMPP the past two decades. I use it because I haven’t found something that’s better.

:D

It’s as simple as:

echo "example.ogg >> mixtape.m3u

While they’re technically the same type of software, it’s still sort of like comparing apples to oranges.

VLC is your kitchen skink media players that comes bundled with basically everything possible.

mpv is more of a minimalist media player that let’s the user add the features themselves using add-ons.

Me personally prefer mpv since it’s minimal in every regard. I have turned of the OSC, and I use the keyboard for everything. I don’t use a lot of extras, but the ones I have, is add-ons I couldn’t probably live without, like yt-dlp and SponsorBlock (for YouTube).

I even use mpv as my music player with playlist that I manage using Neovim and the tool echo (to add new tracks to my playlists).

Paying for software is an exception, not a rule.

And we only have proprietary software because there’s greedy people out there that take advantage of people who don’t know better.

With that said. I’m not saying that developers shouldn’t get paid for what they do. They absolutely should! And a lot of them do, even when the code is free as in free beer and free speech.