My initial reaction was: Why?! But fair play, I find it hard enough to program on a keyboard.
Maybe it was a form of self-enforced focus, a bit like those "distraction-free" writing apps.
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
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I can't say I can relate.
Even with regular nokia phones people were disabling the t9 because it was faster to just type without predictive text.
For me predictive text is mostly useless because I write in 4 languages and it can't even guess which language I'm using, let alone guess the word I want after.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#43One of the people on vi Stackexchange site mostly answers questions from his phone. Glad it works for him, but just seems absolutely mental to me, especially when you have access to a decent machine.
I mean, it sounds weird, but it really isn't that crazy. I cannot claim I'm more or even equally productive on my phone compared to a proper desktop setup, but the thing is I'm basically glued to my phone, and sometimes I catch myself typing fucking essays on my phone being literally 1.5 m from my laptop for no reason, just because, I was scrolling stuff on my phone in the first place.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#44Whenever 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…
Wait... so you send everything you want to put down to Google, or does your browser's address bar work differently from mine?
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Oh man, if this is true, I truly salute his dedication for pushing through and contributing to open source. Not many, despite having all the means available to them, have the drive to "just do it". markview.nvim is a great plugin that does one thing and does it well. Edit: Seems like there is an open issue [1] to get him a PC to code on. Just one more reason why I love the community. [1]: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/m…
If he doesn't have a PC how/why was he motivated to write a neovim plugin in the first place?
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#46His parents still want to send him to medical school, because he's Asian, so he needs to be a doctor. (I'm directly quoting him!) That's ... something.
I am an Indian and somehow I find it a little bit extreme!!
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#47Whenever 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…
Wait... so you send everything you want to put down to Google, or does your browser's address bar work differently from mine?
They're mostly intended for online publication, so Google will have them sooner or later. Yet with personal stuff I'm more discreet, of course.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#48My initial reaction was: Why?! But fair play, I find it hard enough to program on a keyboard.
Maybe it was a form of self-enforced focus, a bit like those "distraction-free" writing apps.
No. They don't have any other hardware to work on. It's out of necessity, not choice. That reddit thread is in fact talking about a Gofundme and sending them an used laptop but they refused because they expect a lot of trouble actually getting it.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#49The 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 wish they still sell those kinds of phone
You might be interested in https://www.clicks.tech/
I have no idea if it’s good or not, just remembered it exists.
Re: Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
#50His parents still want to send him to medical school, because he's Asian, so he needs to be a doctor. (I'm directly quoting him!) That's ... something.
he/she is expected to go for (should be in society) the role which pays best, that's how things work in many parts of the world. add family to that and you'll understand why.
Apparently what he/she shows him/herself to be is something akin to avatar level concentration and intelligence level similar to that of Audrey Tang perhaps...