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?

Resources

• espanso/espanso on Github
• Espanso Official Website
• The Espanso Hub
• Mentioned packages:
  • Bidirectional French-English translation package
  • Typofixer-en package
  • Medical Docs package
• @federico-terzi on Github
• @terzi_federico on Twitter
• @FedericoTerzi on YouTube

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter

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