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Omar Rizwan
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Omar Rizwan's personal blog at omar.website covers programming, systems and design. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Omar Rizwan's site for TabFS, which mounts browser tabs as a filesystem, and for his notes on programming at Dynamicland, a physical computing lab.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-01-01
- Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit (2018)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-01-02
- Skew3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-14
What Hacker News says?
What is the tool used in the example where they select files and then delete them? https://omar.website/tabfs/doc/delete.mp4 Ah, I see now. It is called "dired". I wonder if it can be used standalone, without emacs.
Comment linking /tabfs/doc/delete.mp4
on “TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem”Submitted TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem as a story · 1400 points
HN discussionThere's also: Paper Programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkwSoJrVWAY https://github.com/janpaul123/paperprograms There's also a dead-project: Tiny lands https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26751374 Here are some of my notes for Dynamicland: https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/ https://twitter.com/redblobgames/status/907253802931126272 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJc2esBVwAAnj4X?format=jpg…
Comment linking /posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/nicky-case-programming.jpg
on “Dynamicland 2024”Submitted TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem as a story · 77 points
HN discussionYou can look at the code of a substantial project in text, as well as in action, here. https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
Comment linking /posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
on “Dynamicland 2024”Submitted Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit (2018) as a story · 48 points
HN discussion- jf · 2024-09-05
Yes. Though not in the traditional way that we think of "pipe" working. A good example of this was the "zoom lens" in Omar Rizwan's Geokit: https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
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on “Dynamicland 2024” Submitted Dynamicland Geokit: Augmented Reality Maps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReminds me of Omar Rizwan's TabFS < https://omar.website/tabfs/ >
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on “The File Filesystem (2021)”Submitted TabFS – browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for more concrete details on what it's actually like to make things at Dynamicland, I recommend this writeup by Omar Rizwan. (from 2018, so doesn't reflect recent progress, but it's still helpful for getting a feel for the place): https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/ I also wrote a short explanation of some little experiments I did there when I visited a couple years ago: https…
Comment linking /posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
on “Dynamicland”Submitted Against Nostalgia in Computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt took some digging, but I found some bits! https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/#ba...
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on “Re-Thinking the Desktop OS”Submitted Pinhole: A Falling Ball Demo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBoth seem to have worked at/with Dynamicland previously, though not mentioned on this site. https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/ https://cwervo.com/projects/dynamicland-experiments/
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on “Folk Computer”Submitted Notes from Dynamicland: programming Raspberry Pis (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis looks brilliant, thanks for the recommendation. https://omar.website/tabfs/
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on “I closed a lot of browser tabs”Submitted 'Skew' in the history of computer systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are some dueling abstractions, yes! There was a good write-up from Anil Dash that picked up one of my favorite pieces of the recent TabFS write-up[1][2], _Keeping Tabs on Abstractions[3],_ noting that the browser & OS are each running competing abstractions for tabs. The application's invention of the Multi Document Interface (MDI) has done weird things! And I feel like most consumer OSes have done little to t…
Comment linking /tabfs/
on “Terminal Multiplexers”Submitted Skew as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of TabFS: https://omar.website/tabfs/
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on “Ask HN: What is your wishlist for a new browser interface?”Submitted Skew as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt may not be exactly what you have in mind but there is an interesting extension along similar lines (mostly for chrome) called TabFS that mounts your open tabs as a filesystem... https://omar.website/tabfs/
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on “On Desktop GUI Minimalism”
