Espanso with Federico Terzi

The Developers' Bakery

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
• @cortinico on Twitter