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      <title>building Drosk - your smart desktop file organizer</title>
      <dc:creator>exoad</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/exoad/building-drosk-your-smart-desktop-file-organizer-39p</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi y’all!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m building&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://drosk.net" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drosk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a smart desktop file organizer designed to finally bring order to chaotic systems. If your Downloads folder is overflowing, files are scattered everywhere, or old documents keep piling up, Drosk keeps everything clean automatically.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You define the rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Drosk runs quietly in the background with more than fifty powerful actions: moving and deleting files, converting formats, compressing folders, and building advanced multi-step workflows so your system behaves exactly the way you want.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Privacy and safety come first.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Even with AI integration coming, it acts only as a butler. Every operation is logged, reversible, and designed to ensure important files like tax forms, work documents, and family photos are never touched incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Closed beta access for Windows, with a public beta coming soon as the engine and UI reach the next milestone. &lt;strong&gt;Make today the day you join the early explorers shaping Drosk’s new era of file automation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Learn more and sign up for the closed beta: &lt;a href="https://drosk.net" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://drosk.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Join the community on Discord: &lt;a href="https://discord.com/invite/zpTYDPTn2c" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://discord.com/invite/zpTYDPTn2c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>vibrant &amp; dark vscode</title>
      <dc:creator>exoad</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/exoad/vibrant-dark-vscode-390f</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/exoad/vibrant-dark-vscode-390f</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A vibrant and dark VSCode theme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have recently created a dark theme using my poprock color palette for VSCode.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Check it out here:  &lt;a href="https://github.com/exoad/poprock-vscode" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/exoad/poprock-vscode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>ANSI for Java</title>
      <dc:creator>exoad</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/exoad/ansi-for-java-4blo</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANSI for Java&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Spice up your Java programs with ANSI&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I created a simple library for Java developers to utilize in their projects to make their console messages prettier!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You might think to use interpolation to put ANSI codes manually, but what's the hassle! Using ansicolors you can utilize the potential of method cascading to condense the ANSI formatting into just a few lines!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is as simple as doing the following:&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;jm_Ansi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;().&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;red_bg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;().&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;().&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;blink_fast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;().&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;toString&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"ERROR"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;!));&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Everything is also designed to be as customizable as possible, as more features to render the characters will come out soon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Want to turn off ANSI coloring? Without having to include ugly conditional checks or do a complete refactoring, there is a single toggle you can utilize to disable ANSI formatting at an instant.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Check it out here: &lt;a href="https://github.com/exoad/ansicolor" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/exoad/ansicolor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;

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