in recent years because of the Political Climate i have become very paranoid about using proprietary corporate technology and have been trying to transition everything i can to open-source and / or self-hosted alternatives. the problem is that i have been a vscode (microsoft 😡) user for almost ten years now. i have long been jealous of those 60 year old vim guys who can type faster than i can think, but every time i've tried to dive in myself i completely bounced off - as someone who has spent my entire life using conventional text editors it was like giving myself a frontal lobotomy. but a few months ago i decided that i was gonna stop being a little bitch baby and actually try to make the jump to neovim - and it has been a brutal, long, and arduous journey, but i've finally reached the summit, and i (1) am extremely proud of myself and (2) finally understand what everyone's been going on about all these years. i finally "get" it. i've linked the no boilerplate video that finally sold me, but the gist of it is that vim is really unmatched as an editor. i can manipulate text at a speed and precision far beyond anything that i could do in VScode, and i can do it all without having to pick up the mouse (and aggravate my carpal tunnel)! as a bonus i get to pretend that i'm using one of those terminals in the matrix. i dropped the vscode executable in my trash today and i'm not going back
I use alt+tab and variants the most, but Run is such a useful program that it’s probably my favorite. Ctrl+Shift+Enter to run as admin for bonus points
This was one of my new years resolutions: creating more stuff and not being satisfied by simply consuming media, art, coffee etc.
I felt like I was floundering and too caught up with work to really find the time to explore this side. I should also preface this by saying I'm definitely not someone who identifies as a creative person. However, pi.fyi has been a cool way to do this with no risk or fear. Sure, my posts are dumb jokes and it's completely meaningless but it makes me feel alright and it's fun to interact with you freaks. thank u friends <3
it helps quench your thirst if you chug desperately, throwing in a bit of unnecessary eye contact, little water droplets running down your neck giving you a chill, letting out a moan when you finish drinking…. I think I hauve covid
