Posts tagged: thought

I am a heavy user off substitutions in vim, helix does not substitutions built in, rather it leans on multicursor support.

to replace every instance of hello with world in vim

:%s/hello/world/g<CR>

and in helix you would

How to make helix themes transparent. You can make any built-in theme transparent in helix with one line, a few extras and you can make all the pop ups, help menus and status line trransparant as well.

mkdir -p ~/.config/helix/themes hx

:o ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml

# ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml inherits = "dracula" "ui.background" = { fg = "foreground" } "ui.menu" = { fg = "white" } "ui.popup" = { fg = "white" } "ui.window" = { fg = "white" } "ui.help" = { fg = "light-gray" } "ui.statusline" = { fg = "gray" } "ui.statusline.inactive" = { fg = "black" }

:config-edit

This post shows how to set up multiple LSP’s in helix, the example uses pyright and ruff-lsp for python.

Add this to your ~/.config/helix/languages.toml a

How to set your python formatter to black with helix. The following snippet lays out how to set the helix editor to auto-format on save with the black formatter.

Simon shared a really cool new utility tool for sqlite ispired by rsync. It checks hashes of each sqlite page and syncs pages. So if nothing in the database has changed it will only require 0.5% the bandwidth as a copy would.

porta-john design update, working on moving the seams to line up with an edge to eliminate long noticable seams. These seams are required because I don’t have a printer big enough to print this in one shot.

hotswaps are going in. I’m getting really excited for hotswaps as they will make keebs more repairable, and users can self change out the switches if they want. I can also pre-build them ready to go, and drop in switches at the time of order. I did learn today that these are hyper specific to gateron, damn all these switch manufacturers and their special pinouts.

Last thing I gotta make more room for wiring the microcontroller and running wires out to the rows and columns, my first prototype build took waay to long to build.

Is Jesse going to get sniped by the helix community?

This low profile design almost made it to 9. I think blending together the custom brim to make them all one piece really made the final difference here. The custom brim is two layers thick, only touching on the top layer making it very easy to peel off, but gives better adhesion to the bed, and does not loose one like this print did.

really excited for how these caps of my own design are working out. Having the extra control is the first time I’ve been able to print more than one at a time without some hacky gcode. I’ve got a set of nine here that I have printed 4 times without a single failure.

MX keycap stem dimensions. I used these to create my new caps and all these dimensions worked great. The one dimension I had issues with was the outer diameter off the cap stem, not shown here. 5.3mm ended up being a good outer diameter for me. I print them at an angle and the bottom of the stem can get a bit of sag, pressing out on the outer wall of the switch and can actually stick the key.

This page is gold. It lays out all of the distrobox assemble api with some good examples of how to get access to things like podman and kind from inside of containers.

Especially this example.

This is a very well thought out zmk config featuring many macros, numword, and timeless homerow mods. The build system to build locally looks on point, I really need to give that a try!

Today I learned that you can use init_hooks to access host machine commands from inside a distrobox container. This is super handy for things that you cannot get to from inside the container and need ran outside (docker, podman, flatpak, xdg-open).

Tailscale comes with a feature called taildrop that lets you easily share files between machines on your tailnet. If you have tailscale on ios/android it shows up as a share target when you try to share something, and you can pick the machine to share with.

What was not obvious to me was how to receive the file on linux. The linux tailscale service does not automatically receive the file, which can be kinda nice that you can put it where you want, but was not obvious to me at first. Use this command to receive files.

The Heawood42 is an interesting diodeless keyboard that is not direct wired. According to the repo this is the only keyboard to be diodeless and not direct wired. It does this through the use of a graph.

This is a wild key cap that uses a lever to convert horizontal key presses to vertically press the switch down. The leveret v2 uses two of these on thumbs, one to press outward, and what appears to be one straight forward which feels like it would have to be a wrist motion, but who am I to judge without having it in person.

A nice set of blacks to use in web design. Subtle variants off of black or white like this can really make your design look nice and modern.

This is a pretty incredible use of css grid to overlay items overtop of each other without needing to resort to position: absolute and the side effects that it brings.

Some sick looking icons no attribution needed.

Someone has created a knock off of the ltt screwdriver and made it printable, and it works really well. I have one printed with 6 different bitholders. I popped some labels on them in bambu studio as I printed to mark them for metric/inch and so on.

I’ve had mine for about a year now, and I use it quite often. I used to be a dedicated screwdriver kind of guy, but as life has changed I’m not working out of a shop with tools at reach as much, I’m grabbing a couple of items and heading to a job in the house or a neighbors house. It’s not 30s to grab just the right dedicated screwdriver anymore. Also having some setup with hex and torx is a game changer. It’s also super handy that you can just pop the bits right into a drill or impact.

Highly recommended print. Sorry for not buying the real deal Linux, I got kids to feed here. I owe you a t-shirt order or something.