cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/45148310

Supac is a declarative package manager written in Rust fully scriptable in nushell. It's meant to make it easy to use the native package managers in existing distros without going through the associated headaches of using Nix, while maintaining the ergonomics of structured data in nushell.

Currently supported backends are:

• Archlinux and derivatives
• flatpak
• cargo/cargo-binstall
• uvx (packages only for now)
• rustup toolchains

I daily drive it, and it works well. Feel free to give it a try!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/45042537

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/45042331

Hello again!!

Sorry for the big delay in the announcements. I know it has been a long time I have not made any announcements but I will try my best next time this doesn't happen again.

So, through the medium of this post I would like to share with you all the v1.24.36 major release version of the websurfx project which was released on the 26th of January.

If you are new, and you don't know what is websurfx then I would suggest taking a look at my previous post here:

https://programming.dev/post/2678496

Which covers in depth about what the project is and why it exists.

Credits

Before I share with you the changelog, what this release version means and a preview on what we are planning to work on for the next major release v2.0.0. I would first like to thank all our contributors and maintainers because of whom this was all possible. Specially I would like to thank spencerjibz, MickLesk and SchweGELBin who have been invaluable to the project. Also, Websurfx would not have been possible without alamin655 and xffxff early involvement.

Thanks 💖 to all the people involved in the project

Now, let's dive straight into what this release version actually means.

What does this release version means

This new release version v1.24.36 updates the hybrid caching api to take advantage of the two layer caching solution which eliminates the round trip time delay of fetching the same results from the cache.

Changelog

The changelog of all the changes can be found here:

https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx/releases/tag/v1.24.36

Preview of the goals for the next major release

• Different levels of privacy to choose from with the help of rust's conditional compiling features (In progress).
• Even more engines will be supported.
• Categories would be added to search results like images, news, etc.
• More themes will be provided by default
• More animations for the websurfx frontend will be supported.
• Multi language support would be added.
• I2p and tor support will be provided.
• Reduce animations would be added for those who don't want animations and effects on the frontend.
• And lots more ✨.

Call To Action

If you love our project and want to see it move ahead and progress in the direction you want, then we would suggest contributing at our project

Recent updates:

• VM now uses NaN-boxing technique.
• All stack values are 64-bit (u64) but encode 5 distinct types: Boolean, String, CallData, U32, and MemSlice (25-bit offset + 25-bit size). code
• Added InlineVec — a vector-like structure backed by a fixed-size array. The VM stack, control stack, call stack, and jump stack now use it with defined limits. code
• VM now has a heap memory. Memory is simple Vec, grows dynamically, but technically length is restricted by mem_slice_val format: 25 bits payload for offset and size

Project is still in absolutely early stage.

Seems like another routine release. At least no huge surprises that I'm seeing...

Managarr v0.7.0 has been released with Lidarr support!

What is Managarr?

Managarr is a terminal-based application for managing all your Servarr instances from one place. It provides a user-friendly interface to interact with your media libraries, making it easier to manage your downloads, monitor your artists and albums, and perform various actions directly from the terminal.

It sports two modes: a TUI mode (Text-based User Interface) and a CLI mode (Command Line Interface).

TUI mode gives you an interactive User Interface right inside your terminal window, allowing you to navigate through your Sonarr and Radarr libraries, view details about your series and movies, and perform actions like adding or removing items, all through keyboard shortcuts.

CLI mode lets you execute commands directly from the terminal to manage your Servarr instances without needing to open the TUI. This is great for quick tasks or for integrating with scripts and automation tools.

Screenshots

Try it out for yourself using the in-browser demo!

If you want to try it out for yourself without installing it first, you can use the Managarr demo-site: https://managarr-demo.alexjclarke.com/

What Lidarr operations are supported?

📚 Library Management

• Artist Library - Browse, search, filter, and sort your music collection
• Add Artists ➕ - Search for new artists and add them with full config options (quality profile, metadata profile, root folder, monitoring options)
• Edit Artists ✏️ - Tweak artist settings including quality profiles, metadata profiles, tags, and monitoring status
• Delete Artists 🗑️ - Remove artists from your library with optional file deletion
• Artist Details 🔍 - Get the full picture on any artist:
  • Overview, disambiguation, type, status, genres, and ratings
  • Album list with release dates, track counts, and download status
  • Artist history with detailed event info
  • Manual discography search with release selection and download

💿 Album & Track Management

• Album Details - Drill into individual albums to see:
  • Track listing with audio info (codec, channels, bitrate, sample rate, bit depth)
  • Album history
  • Manual album search for grabbing specific releases
• Track Details 🎼 - View individual track info and history
• Delete Albums - Remove individual albums from your library

⬇️ Downloads & Queue

• Downloads Tab - Keep an eye on active downloads and manage your queue
• Blocklist 🚫 - View and manage blocked releases

📜 History

• Full History Support - Browse, search, filter, and sort Lidarr event history
• History Details - Dig into the details of any history event
• Mark as Failed ❌ - Mark history items as failed

🔎 Indexers

• Indexer Management - View, add, edit, and delete indexers
• Indexer Settings ⚙️ - Configure global indexer settings
• Test Indexers 🧪 - Test individual or all indexers at once

📁 Root Folders

• Root Folder Management - Add and manage root folders for your music library

🖥️ System

• System Status - View Lidarr system info and health checks
• Tasks - View and trigger system tasks
• Queued Events - Monitor queued system events
• Logs 📋 - Browse system logs
• Updates 🆙 - Check for and view available updates

⌨️ CLI Commands

Full Lidarr CLI support for all the things!

managarr lidarr list artists|albums|tracks|indexers|root-folders|tags|quality-profiles|...
managarr lidarr get artist|album|track|...
managarr lidarr add artist|root-folder|tag|...
managarr lidarr edit artist|indexer|indexer-settings|...
managarr lidarr delete artist|album|root-folder|tag|blocklist-item|...
managarr lidarr search artist|album|...
managarr lidarr refresh artist|downloads|...
managarr lidarr trigger-automatic-search artist|album
managarr lidarr manual-search artist|album

Managarr also supports Radarr and Sonarr!

If you're running the full *arr stack, Managarr has you covered - It supports Radar and Sonarr too, all from the same interface!

This is a passion project so I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or any bug reports you find.

I've been building a bytecode VM in Rust and recently implemented NaN boxing for value representation. Sharing here for anyone interested.

I needed all VM values (booleans, integers, string pool indices, bytecode references) to fit in 64 bits (stack is Vec).

My implementation encodes 5 distinct types using a 3-bit tag and 32-bit payload, all within a single u64. It also has 15 unused bits, they may be used later for types expansion.

I'm using a 64-bit layout:

• Bits 63-51: Quiet NaN signature (0x7FFC...)
• Bits 50-18: 32-bit payload (integers, string pool indices, etc.)
• Bits 17-3: Unused/ (15 bits)
• Bits 2-0: 3-bit type tag

So it allows me to have 5 tagged types: TRUE_VAL, FALSE_VAL, STRING_VAL, CALLDATA_VAL, U32_VAL

Here is my winter holiday project. Current scope and known issues are listed in readme, so thoughts and ideas on them are welcome ^_^

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/23996175

Website: https://yazi-rs.github.io/

Changelog: https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v251229

They have lot of stuff:

• Added for new features.
• Changed for changes in existing functionality.
• Deprecated for soon-to-be removed features.
• Fixed for any bug fixes.
• Improved for performance improvements.

I just list the first 10 added stuff:

[v25.12.29]

Added

• Remote file management ([#3396])
• Virtual file system ([#3034], [#3035], [#3094], [#3108], [#3187], [#3203])
• Shell formatting ([#3232])
• Multi-entry support for plugin system ([#3154])
• Zoom in or out of the preview image ([#2864])
• Improve the UX of the pick and input components ([#2906], [#2935])
• Show progress of each task in task manager ([#3121], [#3131], [#3134])
• New fs.copy() and fs.rename() APIs ([#3467])
• New experimental ya.async() API ([#3422])
• New overall option to set the overall background color ([#3317])
• ... and more!

Hello everyone, i recently published a post about this app launcher (https://programming.dev/post/41551778) and i released version 0.2.0

Many useful features have been added, such as a configuration file and custom themes, and performance has improved

Ram usage is ~20 mb

For those who haven't seen the first post, here are some highlights of the app launcher:

Starts up in about ~0.1-0.2s

Written using the Iced GUI framework

Supports navigation using arrows

Project GitHub: https://github.com/dest-lab/stryde

Catppuccin Themes GitHub: https://github.com/mxghj/catppuccin-stryde

Feedback and suggestions are welcome

Renamed from Flux to Stryde

Hello everyone! I decided to create an application launcher inspired by Raycast, but for Linux - Stryde

I built the first version in 4-5 days and wanted to share it with you to get feedback, both good and bad.

Some highlights:

~0.1-0.2s opening time

~35MB RAM usage

Written in Rust using the Iced GUI framework

Instant search filtering

Supports Breeze, Papirus, and Adwaita icon themes

Works with system apps, user apps, and Flatpaks

Current features in v0.1:

Search and launch applications

Press Enter or click to open apps

ESC to close

Caching

Planned for v0.2:

Arrow key navigation (Already did it)

Built-in calculator for math expressions

More customization options

I'm 14 and this is my first major open-source project. I'd love to hear your feedback on features, performance, code quality, or any bugs you find.

Github: https://github.com/dest-lab/stryde

Tested on Arch Linux with Hyprland, should work on most distros

Hope you have an awesome day!

A minimal, declarative setup for productive Rust hacking on Emacs + Guix

I noticed there was a blatant lack of resources and documentation on this particular setup. So I rolled up my sleeves and wrote this article, which hopefully you find useful.

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/rust/simple-guix-emacs-rust-development-environment/index.html

See image here of my Emacs with rust-analyzer and clippy working: https://ibb.co/whxq8dX1

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/45839000

Automated changelog generation

When publishing a package for use by programmers, automated changelog generation is very beneficial. In this blog post, I explore how to do it in a simple way that works everywhere.

Introducing: Loki! An all-in-one, batteries-included LLM CLI tool

Loki started out as a fork of the fantastic AIChat CLI, where I just wanted to give it first-class MCP server support. It has since evolved into a massive passion project that's a fully-featured tool with its own identity and extensive capabilities! My goal is to make Loki a true "all-in-one" and "batteries-included" LLM tool.

Check out the release notes for a quick overview of everything Loki can do!

What Makes Loki Different From AIChat?

• First-class MCP support, with support for both local and remote servers
  • Agents, roles, and sessions can all use different MCP servers and switching between them will shutdown any unnecessary ones and start the applicable ones
  • MCP sampling is coming next
• Comes with a number of useful agents, functions, roles, and macros that are included out-of-the-box
• Agents, MCP servers, and tools are all managed by Loki now; no need to pull another repository to create and use tools!
  • No need for any more *.txt files
• Improved DevX when creating bash-based tools (agents or functions)
  • No need to have argc installed: Loki handles all the compilation for you!
  • Loki has a --build-tools flag that will build your bash tools so you can run them exactly the same way Loki would
  • Built-in Bash prompting utils to make your bash tools even more user-friendly and flexible
• Built-in vault to securely store secrets so you don't have to store your client API keys in environment variables or plaintext anymore
  • Loki also will inject additional secrets into your agent's tools as environment variables so your agents can also use secrets securely
• Multi-agent support out-of-the-box: You can now create agents that route requests to other agents and use multiple agents together without them trampling all over each other's binaries
• Improved documentation for all the things!
• Simplified directory structure so users can share full Loki directories and configurations without massive amounts of data, or secrets being exposed accidentally

What's Next?

• MCP sampling support, so that MCP servers can send back queries for the LLM to respond to LLM requests. Essentially, think of it like letting the MCP server and LLM talk to each other to answer your query
• Give Loki a TUI mode to allow it to operate like claude-code, gemini-cli, codex, and continue. The objective being that Loki can function exactly like all those other CLIs or even delegate to them when the problem demands it. No more needing to install a bunch of different CLIs to switch between!
• Integrate with LSP-AI so you can use Loki from inside your IDEs! Let Loki perform function calls, utilize agents, roles, RAGs, and all other features of Loki to help you write code.

Typst 0.14 was released. Bringing super cool new features and fixes to typst.

Typst is getting an even better alternative to latex.