Neovim on Austin Wilcox

Switching To Miryoku

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:35:17 -0600

Switching to Miryoku

I used the Miryoku layout for just over a month, and I’m impressed!

Back in 2021, I started my ergonomic keyboard journey with a ZSA Moonlander. I had done a lot of research on keyboards and found this one to be the best for portability and ergonomics (I was working hybrid at the time). I would recommend this keyboard to anyone, and frankly, any keyboard from ZSA for that matter. At that same time I switched my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Colemak-DH. After a couple of years with the Moonlander, I 3D printed and hand-wired a 5x6 Dactyl Manuform, which has been my daily driver keyboard for the last couple of years. It addresses all the ergonomic needs I felt were missing from the Moonlander, mainly the wells for your fingers to rest in. That slight decrease in finger movement really makes a difference in long typing sessions.

My thoughts on Vimium

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

My thoughts on Vimium

Vimium is a browser extension that allows you to navigate the browser with vim-like commands.

I have been using it starting early 2023, and needless to say, I am very impressed! The intuitive keybindings match very well to vim making navigating the web from a keyboard pleasant. Especially when I’m on the go using a laptop, I don’t need to use the track pad as heavily.

Commands I use

Here is a compiled list of the commands that I find myself using most often, and what their function is.

Sensible Deletion Remapping for Vim

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:12:07 -0600

Sensible Deletion remapping for Vim

I often find myself in this scenario:

var testVar = "Hello World!";

Imagine that my cursor is on the !. I want to delete all the text within the double quotes. If I was at the beginning of the text at H, I could run (in Normal mode) dt" and that would delete all the text in the double quotes. Now if I want to delete from ! back, I could run dT", but there is one problem with that. Here is what is remaining:

Tmux Tips

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:12:07 -0600

Tmux Tips

I have been an avid Tmux user since 2021, and I don’t know that I could work without it. Tmux is a powerful terminal multiplexer, allowing you to open up mutiple terminals in a single window. My current workflow revolves around using tmux for running processes, sshing into machines, and editing text/code.

I even went as far as to write my own tmux session manager Disconnected that automates the startup of tmux sessions for me by using a json file to craft the tmux session.

Vim Tip 1

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:32:09 -0600

Vim Tip 1

Welcome to vim tips, where I publish a blog post weekly with a tip on vim that I have found useful.

I stumbled onto one today that had some use. I wanted to wrap several lines of text in a paragraph tag. The text can look something like this:

This is the first line
This is the second line
This is the third line
This is the four line

So I hit V (Shift+v) in normal mode, and highligted those four lines. Next I hit : which brings me into command mode on a selection of text.