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2025-02-05 •

The text discusses the author's thoughts on the Zig programming language after using it for months. It highlights the features of Zig that the author likes, such as arbitrary sized-integers, packed structs, generic types, error un...

2024-12-04 •

The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers when navigating through a new codebase or directory. It introduces a tool called flirt, which is designed to simplify the process of moving to specific folders and app...

2024-07-17 •

The text discusses the author's decision to learn Zig and the specific safety features of the language. It delves into the problem of memory safety and static checks, and explores different approaches to solve the problem at compi...

2024-06-05 •

The author discusses moving away from PR/MR workflow and the issues with centralized platforms like GitHub and GitLab. They propose an email-based git workflow as an alternative, highlighting the benefits and challenges of this ap...

2024-04-25 •

The text discusses the author's experience with Zellij, a modern terminal multiplexer, and compares it to tmux. The author highlights the absence of some basic features in Zellij, such as a customizable status bar and a native ses...

2023-12-23 •

The text discusses the User Experience (UX) in the context of using Kakoune, an editor/productivity platform. It explains the difference between UI and UX, and how Kakoune provides a great UX. It covers topics such as surrounding ...

2023-10-12 •

The author discusses his initial skepticism about org-mode and how he has changed his mind about it. He explains how he takes notes and manages tasks, and how he has revisited the way he thinks about notes. He also talks about the...

2023-08-29 •

The text is an announcement and reflection on the release of kak-tree-sitter v0.4.0, which is a UNIX server bridging Kakoune with tree-sitter, supporting semantic highlighting, text-objects, indent guidelines, and more. The new ve...

2023-06-09 •

The blog article discusses the UNIX design of Kakoune, a text editor, and its limitations. It explains the limitations of Kakoune's plugin interface, the use of string expansions, and the use of UNIX sockets. The article also disc...

2023-05-24 •

The text discusses the author's experience with using Helix as an editor for software development. It compares Helix with other popular editors like Vim and Neovim, highlighting its unique features and design. The author also talk...

2023-01-01 •

The article discusses the author's thoughts on editors and productivity platforms. It covers the use of IDEs, customizable IDEs, and the trend of transforming unit tools into IDEs. The author also explores a new modal editor calle...

2022-09-06 •

The author discusses the redesign of luminance, a graphics crate, and the issues with the current version. They talk about the flaws in the current design, the complexity of the API, and the decision to keep luminance and update i...

2022-07-30 •

The blog article discusses the shades library, which is a shading library that provides types, traits, and functions to create shaders. It addresses the issues with using GLSL code in a hard-coded string or a dynamically loaded fi...

2022-07-18 •

The author discusses the issue of contributors not reading the documentation and implementing features that already exist in the Hop plugin. They emphasize the importance of reading the embedded documentation and the wiki to avoid...

2022-06-26 •

The text discusses the changes in the development environment in 2022, focusing on the use of modern tools and the need for a new productivity platform. It talks about the use of multiple tools, the limitations of the terminal, an...

2021-12-24 •

The text is about the author's experience with Advent of Code 2021, specifically about the implementation made for day 16, which involves parsing a hexadecimal number and interpreting its binary representation as a packet. The aut...

2021-11-03 •

The article discusses the issue of Neovim plugins breaking after updates due to the lack of versioning and proposes a solution using SemVer and git tags and branches. It explains how to implement this solution and the pros and con...

2021-03-22 •

The author discusses their experiences with Neovim, Doom Emacs, and other editors, and how they have been using these tools for coding. They also talk about the pros and cons of different editors and their personal preferences. Th...

2021-03-15 •

The author discusses the recent attention received by hop.nvim from the Neovim community and introduces a new algorithm to optimize permutations in Hop. The new algorithm aims to minimize the number of keys required for jumps, esp...

2020-09-07 •

The author discusses their experience with various code editors, including neovim, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code, emacs, DOOM emacs, and atom. They explain their preferences for keyboard layout, modal editors, and how they like to move a...