• 0 Posts
  • 3 Comments
Joined 9 days ago
cake
Cake day: March 30th, 2025

help-circle

  • Bandcamp, because it is the best place for independent music and there is nothing close to it.

    Steam, because they started with non-horrible DRM (compared to other options) and now they are one of the companies that help Linux succeed for gaming (Steam Deck is just a Linux computer with controllers attached, and Proton is awesome for running Windows games on Linux).


  • Software developer here.

    I only recently switched from vim to VSCode and I refuse to use any editor without vim emulation.

    Regular expressions for quick and efficient and precise search and replace, modal editing which allows me to type di" to ‘delete inside current double quotes’ (needs vim-surround plugin), typing 123gg to go to line 123, press % to switch between any pair of marching braces, brackets or parentheses, and all sorts of such efficient goodies.

    It’s not only efficient, vi has a whole concept, a philosophy how you can build quick editing commands. It’s not like remembering random shortcuts like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. Once you understand the language, it becomes second nature and you can translate something you want to do into 5 key strokes which would need 100 otherwise or would involve the mouse and clicking and selecting etc.

    I’m not even that good at vim, I’m just using the surface features.

    It has very good reasons why every notable editor provides some form of vi editing emulation.