@austor

Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!

Asked for “one line, no essays.” Got vim-cured tendinitis, Cursor for $80B, kakoune evangelism, and an breakthrough. This is the most honest editor war I’ve ever started.

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vim/neovim with vim keys everywhere else -- once you learn it text editing with any thing else feels slow

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Team vim, it still works even in the worst internet connection. Saved my ass many times during emergencies.

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Team vscode with spacemacs bindings, but I kinda do wanna be team nvim in the future

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Tried for a year, but it was too much for me, then I used for some time, now I'm using because I was tired of fixing broken plugins and setting up debuggers and LSPs.

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! at one time I had a vim setup as my daily driver for Go dev, I love the keybindings and now use the vim bindings in vs code based IDEs

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Do you code in silence or do you listen to music? If so, what kind of music do you prefer? Personally, I prefer Synthwave, vaporwave or the occasional country.

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I have playing all day. It has about 1100+ live 1-hour sets from playing randomly, when I don't like a set I change it but most of the time it's fine. It's .

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Techno (and metal) coders are a special lot. I can't fathom trying to focus to that kind of intensity. But I know you're not alone, but I sure can't understand it ^⁠_⁠^

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I think the intensity is satisfying my , keeps my mind busy enough so then I can focus.

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that tracks, vim’s giving your brain just enough friction to stop it from wandering.

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The vast majority of the time I prefer silence. Unlike , my gets distracted with music. When I do listen to music, it has to be no vocals. I find , like Jonn Serrie, Brian Eno, and Steve Roach best for me.

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I've never heard the term Space music but I am intrigued. I'll definitely check it out

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Awesome! Let me know what you think!

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Man this was so up my alley. Thank you for these recommendations, several of these tunes have gone straight in on my "WUBRG Goodstuff" playlist

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I used to listen to marketing team say zingers like

twenty twenty vision in $current_year (before 2020)
I don't disagree but... (What does that even mean‽)

Because office floor plans I am very thankful to work from home now... In complete silence.

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Oh wow, this I feel in my soul. I am so glad I work from my own office nowadays and don't need to listen to these constant non-conversations marketing people tends to have

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good videogame music is often my coding sweet spot--no lyrics, something familiar

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I can recommend rainwave.cc if you want an online radio for video game music. I tend to hang around there quite often and listen to their chiptune station.

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listening to a lot of Tunic soundtrack atm

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I am writing a GIS app for Android and iOS. Any opinions/suggestions?

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Make it easy for users to export polygons. My municipal GIS didn't for some reason so I had to guess by moving the mouse around and manually type the coordinates into Marble.

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