This sounds like actual torture, and the madman inflicted it on himself. Kudos, I guess?
Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
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Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#12The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
I had a Nokia qwerty phone, and, man, it was such a superior way to type portably. I wish they still sell those kinds of phone...
Like computer keyboards, it also had a ctrl key. That means that I can ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy paste.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#13I'm getting a little bit of anxiety just reading about this. I hate typing on phone especially if the text haa symbols mixed in. I mistype a lot more often on phone and often somehow skip entire words. (Don't know what the cause of this is.) I am guessing they using some specialised keyboard that makes it easier to type symbols etc.
I would guess termux and a bluetooth keyboard perhaps?
He doesn't even use a keyboard:
> Minus the keyboard, actually.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#14The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
I had a Nokia qwerty phone, and, man, it was such a superior way to type portably. I wish they still sell those kinds of phone... Like computer keyboards, it also had a ctrl key. That means that I can ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy paste.
I loved my blackberry but typing on it was way slower than on a touchscreen with predictive text. Especially when you need non-alphabetical characters.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#15That also happen to be my currently favorite neovim plugin before I knew this about the developer, which makes this even more impressive to me.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#16This sounds like actual torture, and the madman inflicted it on himself. Kudos, I guess?
He's a kid from Bangladesh who is studying and isn't even in uni yet. He's mentioned on reddit that his parents are doing the classical asian parent thing of pushing him to become a doctor or engineer and right now he's busy studying for the medical entry exam. If he doesn't get through that he might consider a computer science thing. So basically the whole neovim plugin is a side quest at the moment.
Always boggles my mind how raw talent, dedication, and integrity can all come together and just by pure chance of life, you can just miss out on a world of opportunity where people with far less dedication end up with so much more. Hope that this little moment on the internet actually results in a bigger opportunity for him eventually.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#17I love to have the portability of my phone, so I have my neovim as IDE on Termux, and I've to say that to do some fixes or review something puntual, it's not that bad. Writing a whole plugin is another level!
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#18Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentionally and has been somehow more productive than all the fancy notetaking apps I'd used. Maybe it's something about the claustrophobically tiny input slot that makes me want to widen it as much as possible. Another bonus is that when I later get to format the long string of text that is synched (as you can see I don't believe in the paragraph when writing on my phone), I get loads of additional ideas.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#19The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
As always, the Japanese has us beaten.
Cell phone novels has been a thing for over 20 years and they were originally written using numpad cellphones.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#20Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentionally and has been somehow more productive than all the fancy notetaking apps I'd used. Maybe it's something about the claustrophobically tiny input slot that makes me want to widen it as much…
That's even crazier than my habit of writing notes in macOS TextEdit and never saving them. (Currently at "Untitled 235")