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Espanso with Federico Terzi
Episode 49

Espanso with Federico Terzi

Expanding our horizons in the text expander worlds, with Espanso and Federico Terzi

The Developers' Bakery

January 2, 202345m 19s

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Show Notes

It’s time to expand our horizons in the text expander realm with Espanso! Today we have Federico Terzi on stage to present his project, a cross-platform text expander entirely written in Rust 🦀.

If you’re into automating every workflow, you probably know how crucial a text expander can be in helping you. Espanso is much more than a simple text expander, with support for complex patterns, forms, regexes and even a Hub where you can share your patterns with others!

I’m sure you’re going to love it! Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

  • 00.07 Intro
  • 00.53 Episode Start
  • 01.30 Federico’s Introduction
  • 02.21 What is Espanso?
  • 03.30 What does Espanso mean?
  • 03.58 A bit of history
  • 06.39 Espanso’s killer features
  • 09.15 Federico’s daily routines
  • 10.32 Canned responses
  • 11.29 Espanso internals
  • 12.51 How to replace the user’s input
  • 14.44 Using Rust
  • 16.43 Text expansion on Mobile
  • 19.21 Elegant websites
  • 23.27 The Espanso Hub
  • 25.23 Hub’s hall of fame
  • 29.13 The r/espanso Subreddit
  • 31.04 Who is maintaining Espanso?
  • 35.03 What’s next for Espanso?
  • 36.02 Configuration: YAML vs UI
  • 38.04 The current UI
  • 41.18 Further reading
  • 43.08 Where people can find you online?

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