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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So, I got a Droid, which for me, meant that I had to start learning the Android SDK. In my opinion, the best way to learn something like this is to write an application. It's how Exaile and JBother came to be, and now, it's how SupaCount came to be.

This month is my company's national convention. This combined with a secret project I'm working on after hours means I basically have no time to work on Exaile until October. So, no thanks to me, Exaile 0.3.0.1 has been released. This one is brought to you by the other members of the team, and is a bugfix release for 0.3.0. This includes fixing the bug that was causing 0.2.14->0.3 migration problems for most people. Enjoy!

Yup, you probably heard it here last. I've been super busy irl, and just haven't had the time to throw up a blog entry just yet, but 0.3.0 final is out and you can grab it from the Exaile downloads page.

Yeah, that's right.

Check out http://www.exaile.org for more information.

Next Tuesday (July 28th) starting at 14:00 GMT (7:00 am MST) the Exaile team will be hosting the very first Exaile bugday. Our goal will be to hammer out as many bugs as we possibly can. SiDi has set up a Launchpad Group that will have it's own branch (based from the 0.3 trunk) so that people wanting to participate will be able to commit their changes.

Exaile development has been very active in the past few weeks. We are working very hard to make our August goal. As well as picking up mathbr as a developer, we've had quite a few contributors adding/fixing a lot of things. If you're like me, this screenshot makes you drool (click on it to get a larger view):

Don't worry, we're still here, and still hard at work. I thought I would give an update since it's been quite a while since the last one.

I got an email from Amazon today saying that they were changing some things in their API. Aside from changing the name of the services from "Amazon Web Service" to "Product Advertising API", by August 15th, they are requiring that users of the API send the previously optional HMAC signature when authenticating. What does this mean to you?

Yeah, you may have noticed that I've been working on the blog lately. Poor openclue.org got flooded with already posted RSS feeds again. This happens all to often. Sorry guys.