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Remember ThiefMD?

Hey, anyone remember ThiefMD? It was an awesome markdown editor that I used to use a lot for keeping notes and writing school essays. Unfortunately, the maintainer disappeared from GitHub a couple years ago and the app has just sat abandoned since then.

Last year I tried to pick it up and port it from GTK 3 to 4, but gave up as most of its functionality relies on things that were removed or substantially changed. It's also written in Vala, which seemed like a cool language until I found out it's super dead.

Rewrite it in Rust meme

About a month ago I got a notification from ThiefMD's discussions page as someone there asked about the future of ThiefMD. After the reminder of its existence, I found myself trying again, this time building a spiritual successor from scratch in Rust. It's getting close to a minimum viable product, and I can maybe try publishing it soon. Check out the repo here. There's just one roadblock before I can get to that.

What do I call this?

I'm kinda experiencing decision paralysis with the name, hence this post. I've been trying to find words related to ThiefMD, the cat mascot in the icon, or just writing in general. The approach got me a couple ideas, but I'm not sure how well they fit. Maybe I have to admit I can't have it as clever as I hoped. Any thoughts?

• Copycat - This is kind of a ThiefMD imitator, and the name mentions cat.
• Scratch mark - Cat reference that mentions markdown.

Other things

• I'm also struggling with the icon design. If you're a better artist than me, I very much accept help. See the icon issue with my sketches here.

• If you have experience working on programs that manipulate files, I'd like to know how you handle them and minimize the risk of data loss. Destroying someone's work is the last thing I want to do.

Thanks!

tl;dr: need name for markdown editor

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Source code

Posted on April 1st via Photon Premium

So, I built a web client with some experimental and questionable design choices. I spent the whole weekend on it, so it's pretty much a finished product*. The project isn't very serious, but maybe I'll keep working on it.

Try it here

git repo

~*only the feed works, and it works poorly.~

So, I started working on a new project, and I'm thinking of how to license it. Specifically, how to make it as copyleft as possible without making it unusable.

By unusable I mean the license blocking the game (or in a more likely case, any later project that reuses the code) from being published on platforms like Steam. I know that steamshim exists, but I'm not sure if that can be a real solution. Linking against the SDK seems completely optional in Steam's case, but license compatibility is listed as a hard requirement regardless.

The game code consists entirely of a GDExtension written in Rust, so I think I can just neatly LGPL the GDExtension "library" without restricting the game executable itself. It sounds like it should work, but there are some things that I'm not sure of, like hardcoded references to assets.

I really don't enjoy thinking licenses so I usually slap on either GPL or something permissive and be done with it. Anyone notice any holes in my plan, or am I good to go?

I know I can use my own code however I please, but it gets more difficult once there are multiple people involved; I've had one person express vague interest so far.

Thanks.

EDIT: This is now integrated to Photon as the Neutral theme.

I did this a while ago, when theming was first introduced. I wanted a dark theme that wasn't black, and also not tinted.

{"other":{"black":"#000000","white":"#ffffff"},"primary":{},"zinc":{"700":"#484e57","800":"#373b41","900":"#282a2e","925":"#202225","950":"#1d1f21"},"slate":{}}