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A simple postgres client I'm working on in my free time: https://sanchosql.com/ Linux only now but it's open source so it should be possible to compile for win/mac


htop and xstarter (disclaimer, I'm the author of the latter)


Damn, xstarter looks neat! I'll try how well it plays with the suckless terminal :)


Thanks! I think it works well with st!


Excuse my shameless plug but I'm working on a Linux desktop client for postgres: https://sanchosql.com

Maybe someone will find it useful


You're working on a GTK client for Postgres.

Let's not forget that KDE exists, nor that you can use GTK on non-Linux platforms (I'm thinking of the BSDs here).


https://github.com/lchsk/xstarter

Never planned to make any money out of it, I've made it because I needed it, and to play around with building a unix tool in C. It's pretty simple but it's definitely one of the projects I've had the most fun working on and I still have plenty of things I want to add.


I'm going to borrow some of these for my emacs list :)


Mostly two things:

1) online platform for learning foreign languages via simple games, currently trying to make it work on mobiles (http://language-monster.com)

2) attempting to create a classic 2D real-time strategy game, although it's in early development: https://github.com/lchsk/knights I intend to make it work on Linux & Windows


You be interested in some software I found yesterday called Godot: https://godotengine.org/

It's got a fairly nice GUI and allows you to script events in a scripting language that's like a mix between Python and C++. You can also just use C++. Everything works as part of a "scene-tree". The physics and rendering engines are swappable. I believe it uses SDL2 by default. I'm pretty new at game-dev stuff. Most of my work is in back end web development. I just thought you may find it interesting or helpful.


Hi. Thanks, I've heard about godot, although haven't tried it. For now, I prefer to have more flexibility though.


Totally understandable. I'm personally terrible at C++, so it works for me.


I like the idea of gamifying language learning, and your first project is cool.

Can anyone recommend good 'game' type apps to help learn Chinese?


Thanks. Don't know of anything made specifically for learning Chinese unfortunately, but I do hope to extend my project to include Asian languages someday.


On Android I've gotten great results from ChineseSkill


Cool. Out of curiosity, what language is it written in? (Fellow ncurses fan here ;))


Thanks! It's written in C for the reason that I want to become a faster C developer. It hasn't always been the most convenient experience but I sure get better in writing C :).


Great, I did some work with ncurses & C, and it's not easy but it's worth it.


Hi Yes, this is thought of as an improvement over dmenu and similar :) It uses cache so imho it's much faster.


Looks interesting, waiting for linux version.


I'm currently battling with the Microsoft Winrt driver but I'd love to see this happen on Linux too. I guess the driver would use Chromium Embedded Framework. Contributions on that would be more than welcome.

Thank you for the feedback :).


@apixline Thanks a lot again, the issue is fixed (along with the buttons in the top-left corner not working on windows).


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