August 23, 2023
While making a series of changes to my dotfiles this weekend, I decided to retire my aging install scripts in favor of using a ready made dotfiles manager. I chose to use Dotbot. Reader, let me tell you: Dotbot is really nice! Dotbot is a little bit like ansible, but way lighter weight. It uses a YAML file to configure how your dotfiles should be linked in your home folder...
August 8, 2023
I might be getting old. The other day, I was chatting with a coworker and waxing nostalgic about various tools and methods that I miss. The conversation had a whole "back in my day" vibe. Which, you know, I think I should just lean into at this point. Anyway, we started talking about Cucumber and made me a little sad...
July 4, 2023
I'm standing at my desk writing this blog post and all I can think about is how great this keyboard feels. I'm falling in love with this keyboard: the buttery smooth travel of the keys, the satisfying thock as my fingers hit the end of travel. For the first time, I enjoy typing on a linear switch...
May 22, 2023
I made my first lua plugin for Neovim! It's called Darklight.nvim and it makes it super simple to switch between dark mode and light mode colorschemes in Neovim...
September 28, 2022
It feels weird to mourn the loss of a social networking app. I left Facebook in 2017 because the constant flood of Trump news was overwhelming. I left Instagram a few months later because it had drifted so far from fun photo app I’d loved for many years. And recently I deleted TikTok because I found myself, on too many occasions, being lost in scrolling for hours. I stopped using Twitter on my phone because it’s so toxic. So it’s strange to see Telepath, a relatively new social network, shut down and feel anything but relief...