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People who have a minimap in their editor, why?

I had one briefly back in the Atom days, but it was never all that useful. I’ve found having breadcrumbs at the top of my editor fills every minimap use case I can imagine.

Interested to hear how people use them and if I’m perhaps missing something.

This is a quote from Gian-Carlo Rota’s Indiscrete Thoughts that I think applies particularly well in the context of development:

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

Finally got around to setting up my ‘/uses’ page.

If, for whatever reason, you’re interested in seeing some of the tech and stuff I use, feel free to check it out.

https://vale.rocks/uses

The JavaScript Registry looks really interesting, but every time my brain sees JSR, it thinks JET SET RADIOOOOOO!

Everyone else spams the up arrow key to find a previous command when it would have been faster to just type it out? Right?

Server upgraded and everything running again.

Bumped up to 8GB of RAM from 4GB, cleaned out the case, installed a new 4TB HDD, and migrated from Debian to NixOS.

Time for a server upgrade…

Migrating drives tomorrow. If I disappear off Fedi, then I’ve probably killed my database.

Goodbye Xbox 360 Marketplace.

I’ve made so many formative memories on the 360. It’s sad to see its infrastructure slowly shut down, bit by bit.

Spent a bit of time putting together a little tool that lets you search across search engines. You can pick a default and use bangs to search a specific site, like on DuckDuckGo.

Made it mainly for myself, but I’m sure it’s of interest to other people.

https://search.vale.rocks

Penpot kicks arse! It’s got all the sick layout features of something like Figma but represents them exactly as I’d need to implement them in CSS.

This is sick!

Just successfully implemented a feature I’ve been struggling to get working for yonks, and, as I did, (Get A) Grip (on Yourself) by The Stranglers started blasting.

Feels good.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uakqdR2B2w8

The phrase “WebKit magic” is something I could live without.

I’ve got a review of the Flipper Zero coming out on my blog tomorrow. It includes my thoughts on the Flipper itself, the Momentum firmware, and some mischievous uses. Stay tuned!

Decided to try music streaming again. The Vengabus started playing. I now remember why I maintain a local library.

Finally gave Zed a quick go on NixOS. It’s slick. The collaboration features are unrivalled.

If someone asks for a code editor in future, Zed is gonna be my suggestion. As much as I love NeoVim, I understand it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I can only see Zed getting better and filling the shoes of VS Code.

Please let this happen. I’ve waited so long.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGH7WqFO1%3DUt7OpUvfgnyD5Gaoy7j8zFhSQRw08MDw34SfOL3g%40mail.gmail.com

Does this Neuralink stuff remind anyone else of “Flowers for Algernon”? The patient experiences temporary enhancement and then has it slowly taken away. I fear the potential psychological impact.

So, uh, is the punchline of The Big Bang Theory just misogyny?

I don’t watch the show, but every time I’m exposed to it, that’s the impression I get.

Been keeping an eye on the GitHub milestone as the issues were slowly crossed off the list. Very glad to see the release of Neovim v0.10.

So many great improvements with this release! Congrats to the team!

Not high enough resolution for Unsplash, but here is a picture of a crab I took some years back.

Well, I just watched Red vs Blue: Restoration. I suppose that’s it. Red vs Blue is over. I was late to the series, having only discovered it in recent years, but that doesn’t make seeing it end any easier.

Restoration felt rushed and unpolished. I think an extra half hour on it’s runtime would have it many favours. It certainly wasn’t the best ending, but it was an ending, and that’s something.

It’s sad to see things end but I think it’s important to simply value the memories they created. After all, memory is the key

Thanks Rooster Teeth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0lXRq4Q3o

Got 5G for the first time today. It is significantly faster then my home Wi-Fi network…

This just in, defecation demonstration causes devastation across the nation. More at 9.

Which one of you has been visiting my website with a Windows Phone?

Just finished my big site update. Took a bit, but it’s more accessible, responsive, and a lot easier to work with into the future. Go check it out!

https://vale.rocks

Got a new blog post coming tomorrow regarding code formatting. Stay tuned!

Very disappointed by the abandonment of my 12th Gen Framework Laptop 13.

Read my open complaint here: https://community.frame.work/t/my-framework-has-been-abandoned

YouTube, do you care to explain what the hell I’m looking at?

Seeing X (formerly Twitter) fall victim to clbuttic has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen recently.

Just registered as an organ donor. Hopefully my bits can be useful when I’m no longer using them.

If you’re in Australia and want to do the same, here’s the link: https://donatelife.gov.au/register-donor-today

Also worth reading this set of myths regarding donation: https://www.donatelife.gov.au/all-about-donation/myths-about-donation

The Joomla marketing team has been editing the Joomla Wikipedia article to promote their product.

Give the article a read. It’s basically an advert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla

Thank you all for the birthday wishes today! It’s been a most excellent day and I look forward to what the future will bring.

:)

I’m having a most excellent birthday. Can’t wait to share some of the stuff I’ve been doing!

It is with great joy that I announce I am now 18 years of age.

I shall now proceed to destroy my body and mind with recreational drugs.

The dead internet theory was better as a conspiracy theory and not as a slowly encroaching reality…

Microsoft, I ask of you this:

Does everything need AI integration?

There is an old saying that goes “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.”

It almost seems that for the digital age it should be altered to “If you’re paying for the product, then you are the product.”

A debatable claim…

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