For many years, I have been guilty of always recreating an ssh-agent instead of reusing the previous one. I know, it's an atrocity and a waste of CPU cycles and registers. It had to stop.
Every time I would try to use a ssh-key via ssh-add, I'd see the dreaded
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
message and I would just mindlessly run eval $(ssh-agent).
With time, this would leave an army of ssh-agent processes behind my back..
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First of all, why would you still use a programming language first designed in 1960, using an implementation (SBCL) that has been around since at least 1984?
If you do the math and compare it to the pace of web development, it's like sticking with a tool that was written 126 JavaScript frameworks ago (according to this SO article). Imagine doing web development today using something that came before jquery!
AKA: how to use Doom Emacs as my main text editor for note-taking and software development.
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
The TL;DR is that Doom Emacs offers sane defaults for most stuff, and uses SPACE as your leader key.
The killer feature for me is using the beautifully lisp-y Emacs ecosystem of packages together with the insanely practical vim keybindings (if you like being evil ).
NOTE: Everything I write is tested against my own config, which you can find in my dotfiles repo: https://github.com/vvzen/dotfiles
For more info on Doom Emacs itself, have a look at https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
SPACE + . -> Find a file to open in a new bufferThis^ uses dired, so you will be able to fuzzy match, etc.
SPACE + SPACE -> Find a file in the current project (also uses fuzzy find, but leverages projectile)
CTRL + x + d -> Edit the dired directory for the current buffer (and more)
SPACE + b + i -> Open a buffer listing all buffers (via ibuffer)
After a decade of having macOS as my one and only OS for all of my home computing needs, I decided that it was time for me to tinker a bit with GNU/Linux too.
No, not every day was that sunny and that amazing. But that afternoon, it absolutely was.
On March of 2022, while the world is going even crazier than it has been for the past years, I decided to bring home (my 🇬🇧 one) my lovely new Benelli Leoncino Trail motorbike, which I had bought in Italy for a number of reasons(1). One the tiny detail though is that between my UK home and my Italian home there's almost 2k kms..
An Extract of the Principia Mathematica, a colossal work by Whitehead and Russell, dedicated to formally proving that 1+1=2. If these guys dedicated a good chunk of their life to prove that 1+1=2, we can dedicate a few hours of our time to prove (test) that our code behaves as intended
If there was something that I really missed since I moved to the UK, that was wild nature. The smell of grass in the morning, or a sunset without light pollution, or the silence of a forest. These kinds of things can't really be appreciated if your main focus is just to get on with your day to day job, and reach the end of the week without stressing too much.
Note: this article is subject to be updated as soon as I find a framework that meets my criteria! If you find anything that can be proved to be incorrect, please let me know so I can address it.
A shell friendly, text-editor agnostic framework for creating visuals that is fun and has good enough performance. Hot-reloading would be great. An interpreted language wins over compiled ones: even if it's less performant, no compilation step means it's actually easier to stay in the zone and make something creative and interesting.
