PinnedMember-onlyIt’s 2023: are we still fighting the editor war?The editor war When Unix culture became popularized, the community quickly found itself entertaining fierce discussions. Put a bunch of programmers in a room and they’re bound to disagree about the merits of operating systems, programming languages, version control systems and even indent style. …Editor6 min readEditor6 min read
1 day agoMember-onlyTIL: Multithreading in LuaConcurrency in Lua Today I was solving day 5, part 2 of Advent of Code 2023: Advent of Code You take the boat and find the gardener right where you were told he would be: managing a giant "garden" that looks…adventofcode.com which I hoped to optimize using concurrency (as it involves millions of computations). As I’m doing these puzzles in Lua this year, I first looked at Lua coroutines, but these alone are not enough to achieve true…Lua2 min readLua2 min read
Nov 29Member-onlyHow to turn VSCode into Neovim 🙃VSCode != Neovim Okay, first things first: of course, this post is as much a joke as anything else. VSCode is not Neovim and neither should it be! Both editors have different strengths and I’m a firm believer in picking your development tools based on your specific needs. For some, that might be…Vim8 min readVim8 min read
Nov 8Member-onlyNeovim and the Power of PlayWhy Neovim? If you use Neovim, like I do, it is not uncommon to have to explain yourself. After all, it is not a very popular choice, as you can see from the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey:Neovim7 min readNeovim7 min read
Oct 6Member-onlyTIL: benchmarking a single GET request with 5 different Python HTTP librariesToday I needed to figure out which Python HTTP library would give me the best performance for a plain and simple HTTP GET request, so I though I’d write up my approach and results for future reference. Libraries I tested five different libraries: urllib, which is in the standard library urllib3…Python2 min readPython2 min read
Jul 7Member-onlyTIL: standalone linters for GoStandalone linting Today I looked at some option for standalone linting of Go code. What I mean by that is linting that is not done in an editor or IDE like Goland. …Go2 min readGo2 min read
Jun 15Member-only2023 is the year of the terminalTerminal velocity Okay, the title might be a bit click-baity, but in any case, 2023 is turning out to be my year of the terminal! In this post, I’d like to share my quest for developer productivity and how it slowly took me towards the terminal, and has allowed me to reach…Terminal7 min readTerminal7 min read
May 25Member-onlyTIL: SQL Window Functions (and why Amazon wouldn’t publish my book review)SQL Window Functions Explained Last weekend I took some time to dig into SQL window functions. Being an avid user of SQL (especially SQLite), I figured it was high time I did something about my staggering lack of knowledge on the topic 😊 Moreover, I was fortunate enough to receive a gift copy of…Sql2 min readSql2 min read
May 19Member-onlyHow to customize your terminal prompt with Bash onlyA fancier prompt? At work, most of my colleagues work with MacBooks and therefore have zsh as their default shell, which can be configured with a host of plugins through the Oh My Zsh framework. As a result, most of their terminal prompts look something like this:Bash5 min readBash5 min read
May 3Member-onlyNeovimmm! Browse GitHub’s Top 1,000 Neovim RepositoriesEvery Neovim user knows about the hunt for the perfect plugin. Of course, exploring the plugin ecosystem is a lot of fun, but it can also be a rabbit hole that is not only time-consuming, but sometimes also frustrating. …Neovim3 min readNeovim3 min read
