I'm pretty excited about this one. I've been using EasyMotion for a long time - before NeoVim existed, and after, even though it seemed to go out of style (see https://github.com/neovim/neovim for more information about why). There are lots of alternatives, like leap.nvim, flash.nvim, sneak.nvim and etc, but they all required typing more characters, or didn't work across windows, or were just generally buggy. I stuck with EasyMotion; it just worked for me, even despite it's drawbacks. Until it didn't. Recently, it has started crashing NeoVim. I reported the issue, but no response. EasyMotion is quite old and it doesn't appear as though anyone is working on it anymore.

I found a solution, though, and that is to write a custom hop.nvim command that works like EasyMotion used to. Read the rest of the article if you want to see how to do it!

Doot is a simple, zero dependency (except Python 3, which comes installed on most *nix operating systems) task runner. Similar to make, but meant to be used for non-C style projects.

15 years or so ago, I abandoned my first opensource project, JBother and eventually let the domain expire. However, someone, I have no idea who, has rehosted the site, with my design, etc, with very little modifications. Whoever did it has not contacted me at all.

What is going on here?

There have been many plugin managers in the Vim ecosystem over the years. I've used quite a number of them, but lazy.nvim is the one I've enjoyed the most, by far. It's easy, it's concise, there's a ton of "hidden" little tricks, and it allows me to easily separate my plugin configuration into separate files (which was sort of a pain in previous plugin managers).

Most of these this information can be found in the lazy.nvim README, but without just getting your hands dirty, it can be difficult to understand how it all comes together. That's where this article comes in.

Is your iPhone 16 Pro or Max camera crashing every time you try to use it? Mine was too, but I have found a fix.

Do you use distroless? Have you tried to build a distroless docker image for your Go project, only to see an error like /bin/foo: no such file or directory? Maybe you spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why that file isn't there, only to find out that it IS there, but you're still getting the error?

This post is for you!

At the beginning of 2022, I decided I was going to learn photography. I always enjoyed taking photos with my phone, and before that, with various point and shoot cameras. I had also been avoiding something like a DSLR because they are so large and bulky. These days, though, mirrorless cameras are pretty compact, so I went for it.

I've been wanting to revive my blog for a while now, I've had a desire to write some things about NeoVim in particular. Of course, I decided to write it myself instead of using something like Medium. For me, it's an opportunity to learn something new, in this case, several new things.

I recently purchased and received a Lenovo ThinkPad x250 and immediately proceeded to install Ubuntu over whatever version of Windows it came with.

At Ender Labs, pretty much everyone but me uses a Mac. In the last year or so, I've started to realize that there must be some new Mac app or function that, via a hotkey, allows you to select an arbitrary region of your screen, create a screenshot, and then automatically uploads it to a hosting service. I know this, without doing any research, because in irc/slack/gtalk I've started receiving screenshots as responses to questions I ask. These screenshots arrive fairly quickly after said question is asked.

Welp, my simple human test, where you had to type "vim" to enter comments on this blog, finally failed to keep out the spam. Surprisingly, it did work for 6 years before I had problems.

This year, I went to the Lute Society of America Seminar at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a lot of fun, and I'm going to share some of my experience here.

Due to the recent news Regarding Stallman's heart attack, I ended up on the wikipedia page for The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and I was reading the "Guidelines for creating good opensource software". Number 3 says:

A few years ago I posted SupaCount to the Android market. Shortly after that, I stopped posting updates for three years.

Yeah, ok, this post is more of a rant that anything. I realize that people actually reading this article probably aren't the ones that post my most unfavorite comments on the market, but I don't care. I'm posting it anyway.

Yesterday, after many years of using Vim, I've finally realized what the purpose of Vim Tabs is. My friend asked me to post this article, because she was also stumped by their functionality.

In December, 2007, I was watching the History Channel, like I often did at the time. I'm not sure what show was on, but the episode was, I think, about ancient instruments and early music.

This sparked a wikipedia session, where I looked up the origins of my own favorite instrument, the guitar. I found out about one of the guitar's cousins, the Lute. I wondered if people still played it, and looked it up on...

I haven't posted in forever. I have a bunch of things I want to post about, though, and I will continuing forward.

SupaCount 0.1.0 published to the Android Market. I don't suspect that it'll be a highly successful app, being that it's a utility that most people won't need. However, being my first app on any of the mobile markets, it'll be interesting to see what happens. There are, at the very least, hundreds of thousands of people (200,000+ people bought a Motorola Droid the first week it was released) with access to the market.