GitHub does not have to be your only forge
I had moved off GitHub back before it was cool, but recently more and more Free
and Open Source projects have been migrating off GitHub as well, and with how
much of a shitshow the entire service has become I cannot see why anyone would
trust the platform at all anymore. Actually no, I do know one reason: its user
base. Pretty much everyone is on GitHub. For all its flaws, GitHub is still
solving this one major social problem. I am here to give you the good news
that you can get the best of both worlds: move off GitHub and still benefit
from its social inertia.
Separation of content and presentation in Tailwind
Every Tailwind example I have ever seen uses inline styling by applying
Tailwind utility classes directly to the element. Even the Tailwind website
advertises this feature. It was what kept me from trying out Tailwind for
years. Eventually I decided to at least give it a try, and I found out that
you can indeed separate your presentation from the content with Tailwind.
Switching to Astro
I really, really did not want to do this, but I have rewritten this website
again from scratch. This time I’m going all in on the JavaScript ecosystem:
TypeScript, Tailwind and Astro. And no, I’m not kidding.
Stop Killing Games needs more support
TL;DR: If you are an EU citizen (not merely a resident) you can sign the Stop
Killing Games EU initiative. This is not your typical open letter, this is a
government-level initiative that will need to be discussed if it passes. At
the moment we have way more than the required million signatures, but we do not
know how many of these are fraudulent and might get tossed out. Keep on
signing! There are less than ten days left, so don’t put if off. Now for
those who don’t know what any of this means, I’ll do my best to elaborate.
Beware of 'require' at startup in Neovim plugins
Recently I tagged version 0.9.1 of rainbow-delimiters.nvim. This update got
rid of one really nasty mistake I had been dragging along from the very
beginning until just recently: every time you started up Neovim a number of
require calls would run even if you never called require a single time
yourself. In this post I would like to go over how this happened, why it is
bad and how I got rid of it. Even though I am using rainbow-delimiters as an
example here, everything I am about to say applies to other plugins as well.
Introducing nvim-busted-shims
I have written in the past about testing Neovim plugins with busted. In that
post I outlined how to use a thin command-line wrapper shell script around
Neovim to use Neovim as a Lua interpreter and how to configure busted to use it
as the Lua interpreter to run tests in. In order to avoid having to copy-paste
that snippet over and over again I have created a standalone repository for the
shim: nvim-busted-shims (GitHub mirror).
