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Tall guy. Bearded. Nerdy. Left. Software engineer who mostly works with Linux, Python, and infrastructure.
A fuzzy finder, generally. Combined with an LSP, I'm able to sort of gesture in the direction of what I'm after and get there in a few keystrokes. This is admittedly easier in NeoVim with Telescope or fzf-lua, but the Ctrl-P plugin worked really well in classic Vim last I tried it.
March 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy birthday!
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Better be overwhelmed with cake. >;E

Happy birthday!
January 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What the hell would I do with a personality?
November 30, 2024 at 5:23 AM
It's not a big problem or anything. There's just already a lot to learn, and having a bunch of plugins and options you didn't choose yourself when getting started adds an extra layer. On the bright side, a ton of fancy stuff works out of the box, which is great.
November 24, 2024 at 3:23 PM
I feel like the strategy assumed we would get the left and middle again, but it would still be close, so they'd try to sway disaffected Trump voters. Not a bad idea, because every voter you convert is -1 for them and +1 for us. They didn't count on how many votes this courting would cost.
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I don't disagree with the problems in our party or how bad a showing Democrats (and especially Harris) had, but it's still correct and true that Trump didn't win a majority of votes.
November 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Take a look at xmodmap or setxkbmap (assuming Pop! hasn't switched to Wayland yet).

This old Ask Ubuntu post may also get you sorted since Pop! is Ubuntu based. I think the file paths are still the same, or close enough to figure out.

askubuntu.com/questions/88...
How to swap ctrl and alt keys in ubuntu 16.04?
I have read the following: 1. How to cleanly swap alt and ctrl keys in xubuntu? 2. How to swap Command and Control keys with xkb step by step? Other than the above, I also spent quite some time on
askubuntu.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Not at all. I do something similar to get debug messages in Slack when I'm working on things that need to POST data to some endpoint and I want to verify the shape and encodings are all correct.

It's much nicer than staring at CloudWatch log streams.
November 24, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I've been running #ArchLinux since 2008 or so, and it has been the only PC OS in my home since 2019. It helped sharpen a lot of skills, and I love the vanilla and up-to-date packages. I've also been maintaining Ubuntu and RHEL systems for years at work, but more Alpine lately as Docker takes over.
November 24, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I hooked my mom up with a tiny system76 box a few years back and she really took to it. They use Pop!_OS, which is Ubuntu based, but I think has a better desktop experience. support.system76.com/articles/dif...
Differences between Pop!_OS and Ubuntu
Discover the differences between these two Operating Systems
support.system76.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Personal opinions about NeoVim distributions aside, I agree. Vim or NeoVim will change the way you think about text editing and navigation for the better. It's also extremely satisfying, fun, and some version (of vi) is available almost everywhere. Consider it a core UNIX skill.
November 24, 2024 at 2:24 PM
There were more than 2 candidates on the ballot, so winning the most votes doesn't necessarily imply winning the majority of them. He won the popular vote with a plurality of the votes (the largest vote share), but not the majority (>50% of all votes cast).
November 24, 2024 at 2:14 PM
The `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` environment​ variable is what your shell needs to handle this properly. tmux also has an `update-environment` session option that lets you specify environment variables to update. You could also have your shell create a symlink to the socket and make tmux check a fixed path.
November 23, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Honestly, just repetition. Years of using the CLI all day every day. When I need to do something, I reach for the terminal rather than a GUI, and now I seem like a wizard to many of my peers.
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 AM
What is it they say? Postgres is the second best choice for everything? And if you aren't sure what the best choice is, just use Postgres anyway.
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 AM
If you truly have an unstructured document, can't easily normalize it, and want to store it in a document database, fine.

Most of the data I care about, though, has relationships to other data, and would benefit from an RDBMS.
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 AM