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I also used to use git-annex on my photos, ended up getting frustrated with how slow it was and wrote aegis[1] to solve my use case. I wrote a bit about why in the readme (see arch…

Thanks for the link! Yeah editorconfig is definitely a move in the right direction, but there are still the problem with LSP mentioned in the blog post which editorconfig does not …

In this file `~` is meta (option key on macs). Not sure why it's not escape like it is in emacs.

Ugh this destroyed my productivity too for a while. I even wrote an entire blog post about my woes and different experiments to get back to getting consistent shortcuts across term…

Good points. For the record I wasn't trying to say that github1s is "ruining free computing", I was trying to convey the opposite. More diversity is good. If this had been publishe…

Apple's touchpad works natively out of the box on Linux and has for many years. I use a magic touchpad 2 on Archlinux for my daily driver.

I like that this doesn't assume what editor and git remote someone uses unlike github1s which is further pushing the development community toward centralizing on Github+VScode. Div…

There is an easy fix for this: Set layers.acceleration.force-enabled: true in about:config. I believe this is because Firefox assumes it's the responsibility of the compositor you …

After logging in you should be able to spin up a session in less than a second by clicking "quickstart". After that, you can share the URL with anyone you want to have join the ses…

The containers are powered by docker, and all of our pre-built docker images come with git pre-installed. You have root on the machines so you can use a package manager to install …

The IDE is powered by ACE editor, but you have a terminal that is 100% capable of running emacs / vim, but since the terminals are shared you can't have multiple cursors like you c…

PairForce was initially created because I wanted to give test driven development interviews for remote candidates, but I quickly started using my prototype for mentoring junior eng…

And further shorten that to echo ' Change Me ' | vimify 'norm citOK I Will'