As a European, I always get a giggle from American conservatives describing CNN as ‘far left’. There’s so much more spectrum to explore. Like, even your Democrats are our center-right.
For TUI, Helix has a lovely out-of-the-box experience. What little config there is (two TOML files) is relatively easy to grasp. The main barrier you'll face is setting up your LSPs, which need to be installed manually. (Luckily, there's `uvx -q` for Python LSPs.)
For GUI, Zed is also really nice, has a great Vim mode, and auto-installs anything you might need. It loses a couple of points to VS Code on account of not being arbitrarily extensible, although that can also be seen as a plus, as it prevents extensions from randomly slowing everything down.
That's what I've spent the past two years hoping for from Urbek City Builder, whose art style this immediately reminded me of. If you haven't already (which would surprise me), definitely check out Urbek. It's such a fun puzzle game, but development seems to have stalled.
Anyway, buying this right away, if only for the Microslop license.
Edit: I'm 2 hours in. Really fun vibe with a nice soundtrack. Still figuring out why my factory and farms aren't attracting more workers. And I wish I could see the buses drive around (after making public transport free). After bankrupting my first two cities, I'm finally profitable. The trick, it seems: low corporate tax, high income tax.
Docker is not for production. Nomad at scale in practice needs a lot of load-bearing Bash scripts around it: for managing certs, for external DNS, you need Consul for service discovery, Vault for secrets.
At that point, is Nomad still simple? If you're going to take on all of the essential complexity of deploying software at scale, just do it right and use Kubernetes.
Source: running thousands of containers in production.
Kubernetes uses etcd for service discovery. It isn't that Nomad does things differently or less simply, it is just that they are more explicit about it.
The real difference is that Kubernetes has a wide array of cloud hosts that hide the complexity from users, whereas Nomad can realistically be self hosted
I'm not saying that Kubernetes isn't complex, I'm saying it's a fallacy to claim that the Hashicorp stack in any way manages to be less complex in practice. All of these moving parts are unavoidable if you want to run software at scale, Kubernetes is just way better engineered than the Hashicorp stack, if only for not depending on dockerd.
By the time it was my turn to get Covid I’d been twice vaccinated. It’s the most exhausted I can remember ever feeling. Let me tell you, the whole time I kept thinking: How much more miserable would this have been without the vaccine to blunt the impact? Felt grateful and humbled
They’re not, is the impression I get. I usually run into a shortcut conflict within the first few minutes of actual day-to-day use.
I switched to Aerospace about a year ago. I hide everything behind a leader key: alt+space. That brings me into Aerospace’s normal mode. I have a few alt-shortcuts there for quick access: e.g. alt-{hjkl} for moving between panes. But most things are in a dedicated mode. I have a ‘go-to’ mode and a ‘move-to’ mode. Once in either mode, pressing any letter or number will go to/move a pane to space corresponding to the letter/number. So for instance, if I want to move my terminal to space ‘t’ then I type `alt+space g t`. To move to the space I type `alt+space m t`.
I’ve been enjoying this setup because it feels like a natural extension of my terminal setup: zellij/tmux with leader key ctrl+space and helix (also modal) inside.
One thing I constantly struggle with in Aerospace, though, is its tendency to keep windows hidden after switching screens. You have to hunt for them in the bottom-right corner and just hope you can drag them back into view.
Since the VC investment by Sequoia I’ve had my doubts about Zed. For one thing, a certain high-profile member of that VC publicly promotes a worldview that does not align with mine. For another, I’ve had it with my favorite products constantly enshittifying. I’d always seen my subscription more as a recurring donation toward development anyway, so I canceled it.
That said, Zed continues to impress. The editor itself, the technical blog posts, the introduction of new standards like ACP, fair pricing – all paint a picture of a talented, stand-up group of people.
So I welcome this new pricing, although like others I’m confused why I would pay 10% extra if I can BYOK.
Honestly, I wish I could just pay for Zed as a regular user. After all, I pay for Pycharm even though I don’t use it that much these days. I want to be a paying user so that Zed’s incentives align with mine, not with some big corpo’s. But perhaps that sort of thinking is detached from the reality of building a viable business around an editor…
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