Today I Learned

ploopy just dropped a trackpad that runs qmk. This sounds so cool. I’m excited to see some videos on it. It would be sick to get this incorporated into a porta john running zmk, one bluetooth device to run all the peripherals.

Zulip was just featured on a changelog clip as a self-hosted chat offering. I’m interested to give this a go and see how it compares to matrix. glancing at it, it looks a lot like slack.

Just starred windsurf.nvim by Exafunction. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer.

A native neovim extension for Codeium

I’m really excited about codeium.nvim, an amazing project by Exafunction. It’s worth exploring!

A native neovim extension for Codeium

weazyprint was throwing me some errors, turns out that it’s currently not compatible with the latest pydyf package.

my error

TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 3 were give

I fixed it by locking in pydyf at 0.8.0

helix inspired treesitter select outwards and select inwards.

Helix officially made it in my devtainer. I am installing the binary right out of the github release with wget and tar. I can’t use installer because their release format does not match what installer is looking for.

Here are some really great keybinds to make helix vim-like. It feels very antithetical to use this whole sale and forego the helix motion-verb language, but there are some nuggets like G in here that I find useful.

helix multicursor has the ability to do what vims :s/hello/world/gc does by using ) to cycle through cursors, and n to discard unwanted cursors.

Here is a really good vim substitute with regex capture groups, saving this one for a rainy day.

* Reading 1: This is a title to a link * Reading 2: This is another title

:%s/\v(: )(.+)$/\1\[\2\]\(

Interesting take on refactoring the whole codebase from your editor. In this thread the-mikedavis suggests multicursor as a replacement for substitute, and later in the thread takes the side that larger workspace wide edits are outside the scope of helix and he would reach for a refactoring tool like fastmod to do the job.

I like facebookincubator’s project fastmod.

A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

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.