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2026-04-16 20:46 #

Veil: A Neovim GUI built for efficiency, not for cool. Native macOS, Metal rendering, instant startup. #vim

2026-04-16 20:42 #

Just a few days ago I upgraded to the main branch of nvim-treesitter (because reasons), and it is now archived. See also nvim-treesitter Was Archived. Here’s What You Actually Need to Do.#vim

2026-04-16 11:13 #

Before I forget again, if you stumble upon an error with “libzmq.h” not found (installed via Homebrew) while trying to install common-lisp-jupyter, this may help. #lisp

2026-04-15 21:22 #

img The Seine is green!

2026-04-15 16:00 #

As a Lisp programmer, it’s not surprising that it’s a little slower. The number of person-years that have gone into C compilers to optimize idiomatic C code makes the development effort behind SBCL, the most popular open-source Lisp compiler, look like a rounding error. — Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark

2026-04-14 11:59 #

TIL that we can use Texshop previewer with vimtex, which provides forward and inverse search facilities. No need for Skim.app. #vim

2026-04-13 09:33 #

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit: “I got 9 macOS VMs running at once on my M2 Pro MacBook Pro, and still usable for testing!”

2026-04-13 09:30 #

Enough lines drawn close together stop looking like lines and start looking like a surface. Generative art over the years

2026-04-13 09:27 #

Quoi ? C’est compliqué ? Faut faire un effort ? C’est pas joli ? C’est élitiste ? Et tu crois qu’entretenir une crête colorée sur le sommet de son crâne, c’est à la portée de tout le monde ? Bien sûr qu’être technopunk ça demande un effort. Tu voudrais que tout soit facile, sans apprendre et joli justement dans l’esthétique à la mode que t’impose un marketeux défoncé ? Mais retourne dans les jupes de Zuckerberg ! — La complainte du technopunk ringard

2026-04-13 09:26 #

Vim Advanced Search and Replace. I too make heavy use of the Quickfix, and I think it is one of the most underrated feature of Neovim. #vim