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2020-07-01 13:51 #
2020-07-01 07:18 #

Additional resistance towards plugins seems to be some kind of purist animosity against straying away from some core set of Vim functionality. But if you’re using Vim, you’re already in a subset of people who demand that editing text be fast and efficient, so it’s like a group of savants arguing about which is the most eccentric. The set of people that use a movement plugin like EasyMotion or vim-sneak will argue that they’re more efficient than vanilla Vim users, and vanilla Vim users will argue that they’re more efficient than non-Vim users, and so on. The argument will be moot when we can control computers with our brains anyway. — Vim after 15 years

2020-06-29 21:36 #

I just realized today that VS Code was using Jedi as the default backend for its LSP server. It’s still possible to use the MS Python server: same as under Emacs, once you select that option, all MS stuff get downloaded and VS Code gets pretty unusable for quite a few moments when you open a Python project. That was not Emacs fault, right? So I’m now back to Emacs full day. What a life! #emacs

2020-06-28 18:20 #
2020-06-28 18:19 #

restic: Backups done right! Now I guess I just have to figure out how it compares to Borg.

2020-06-27 20:53 #

The UNIX toolset, like the one you’ll find in Linux and OSX, is the work environment of choice of a very large number of programmers and research scientists. If you are interested in a career as a programmer, data analyst, or researcher, you’ll need to master it. — The Hacker Ways

2020-06-27 20:29 #

So many new textbooks by Gaston Sanchez! #rstats

2020-06-27 18:48 #

Latest pinned package from Homebrew: hugo. Yes, again… This time with version 0.73 which messed with the generation of the tagged entries, e.g. emacs. I’m tired of that backward compatibility issues.

2020-06-27 18:46 #

Borg: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption. Since I’m done with Dropbox and rely on Syncthing now, this looks like a great replacement for Arq eventually.