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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 22h

Discoverability (/r/neovim or other sites) is a big part. If 100 different people have their own git flows and write their own plugins to adapt, at least a few might resonate with me and improve my workflows. Usually glancing through the Readme is enough to see if worth trying.

Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 22h

Outside of my personal-notes taking setup I haven't written my own plugins much but I've tried tons of options, many of which have greatly improved my workflows. Some people use the term PDE (personal dev environment) as opposed to IDE. Enjoying tinkering with things is a big part.

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 1d

Peak liberal ”resistance”. Spread around a picture calling Trump triumphant... wow got him! A few people laugh at his hair and much more people who weren't even aware of this cover now see he's "the leader Israel needs".

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa `z{count}<cr>` is cool, new to me as well.

Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 2d

"Full line completion" `i_<C-X><C-L>` is very useful to repeat lines like console.logs. All my notes are in Nvim and I find ad-hoc uses for this constantly.

I map all completions to <tab> (so `i_<tab>l`) in insert mode because I've never wanted to type a tab on purpose.

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Splits resize when window size changes. Useful because I often have multiple splits alongside tmux panes (logs, test runner, etc) and resize those if they need more focus:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('VimResized', {
command = 'wincmd =',
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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 9d

Other platforms are used too, like bitbucket, which doesn't let you configure this.

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · 16d

Started lifting seriously 1 year ago using 20 lb dumbbells in each arm for the incline bench press. Today I pressed 208!

Weight lifting squat rack set up for incline bench press with 90 lbs on each side.

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Writers should own up to this instead of pretending there's "nothing they can do". They throw up their name and credibility in exchange for someone else making up whatever headline fits their agenda. The headline will get 10000x the views as the author's actual text.

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Aug 29

With Facebook and the like dropping $100s of million in salaries (apparently), I wonder how many tech influencers finding success have extra $reason$ to do so.

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · Aug 24

Infuriating...men are the default still

Remember that riddle a father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital the surgeon looks at the boy and says "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son." How can this be?

PrudentOwlet 10h ago

I discovered I was colorblind when I was in my 30s, and I took my kids to the eye doctor and they pulled out that book. Both of my boys failed miserably and I didn't understand it because I couldn't see anything they couldn't see! Doh.

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tzt1324. 6h ago

I thought that boys get the colorblind gene from the mother because it sits on the X. And you just provided the Y

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PrudentOwlet 9m ago

I am the mother.

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CarRepresentative843 48m ago

This doesn't make sense since colorblindness passes from mom not dad to boys as it comes from the X chromossome

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PrudentOwlet 5m ago

Ooh, so close! I'm the mom.

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ZenibakoMooloo 7h ago

If they're red green colorblind our wife's father must have been colourblind. You can't pass that gene.

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PrudentOwlet 9m ago

I'm a woman.

ZenibakoMooloo 7h ago

If they're red green colorblind our wife's father must have been colourblind. You can't pass that gene.

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PrudentOwlet 9m ago

I'm a woman.

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iplay4Him 1h ago

That's odd, colorblindness is x linked, which means your wife's dad is also colorblind.

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PrudentOwlet 5m ago

Well I'm a woman, so...

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DasterdlyDave 4h ago

Colour blindness skips a generation, either you're lying or those ain't your boys.

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Prudentowlet 9m ago

I'm the mom, how about that?

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EconomyOutside3341 5h ago

If it makes you feel better it's the mother's line that carries the colorblindness defect.

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PrudentOwlet 9m ago

I'm the mother.

goodoneforyou 6h ago

Color blindness would usually be inherited by your boys if their mom was a carrier and the boy's maternal grandfather had it. It is x- linked so your boys could not usually inherit it from you if it is typical color blindness.

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PrudentOwlet 9m ago

I am their mom.

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bwilcox0308 5h ago

Are you a woman? The colorblind gene is on the X chromosome and since men only donate the Y, the boys must've gotten the colorblind gene from their mother.

My maternal grandfather is colorblind so my mom has X(colorblind) and x(noncolorblind) genes. My brother isn't colorblind and I am. 50% chance for each of บร

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PrudentOwlet 8m ago

Yes, I'm a woman.

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EmergencyCranberry32 1h ago

Your boys did not inherit this from you though, FYI

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PrudentOwlet 6m ago

I am a woman, people.

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ross571

Is your wife color blind because it's only in the x chromosome or she is just a carrier. You don't contribute anything towards your boys for color vision. Unless they xxy. You don't give your sons a x chromosome, you

give the y.

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PrudentOwlet 8h ago

I'm a woman.

Amelietha 5m ago

This comment section is the most obvious example of "men are the default" I've ever seen.

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PrudentOwlet 1m ago

It's actually infuriating. I have people telling me I must be lying, people suggesting my sons aren't really mine, people just smugly telling me I'm wrong because only Moms pass color

blindness...

I. Am. The. Mom.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · Aug 9

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Jul 3

Very useful!

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Jul 2

Say Drake, I hear you like them young...

Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Jun 27

A large boulder the size of a small boulder.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 24

The Washington Post wants us to stop focusing on the real damage Musk is causing and to refocus on the empty promises he’s been churning out for gullible idiots for over a decade now.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 24

Politics has been central to Elon Musk’s identity over much of the past year, but his latest obsession has faded into disenchantment over the personal costs and difficulties in producing results, said two people familiar with his thinking in recent months.

Tired of political attacks, Musk turns back to Mars and autonomous cars

As he retreats from Washington, Elon Musk says he will spend “a lot less” on politics. Close advisers says he is eager to return to prior obsessions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · May 21

in continually prompting people for their input 24/7, social media has created a world where people believe that everything is their business. the proper response to 99% of what you see on your computer is "that's none of my business"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · May 17

DOGE cut off Social Security Administration spending so now workers have to use their own money to buy office supplies.

Meanwhile Elon Musk makes $8 million every single day from the government.

How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.

www.washingtonpost.com

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · May 17

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · May 14

I won't say Neovim is easy to get started in, but it's easier than it's ever been.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

kfor.com

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Apr 27

Hell yeah

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Apr 8

Downloading music, fighting game IRC channels, digg, reddit

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correcting typo and derailing riff @stefanheck.bsky.social · Apr 6

Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.

Ugliest man in human history being called a pedophile while gaming

Hairless white ape being called insecure while gaming

Disgusting human/pig hybrid being told he ruined the country

Stupid ugly moron being called ugly while gaming

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Josh Finnis @joshfinnis.bsky.social · Apr 5

Climbing always made me enjoy using my problem solving skills from being an engineer. The route can always be solved but you have to try many different ways (debug) sometimes and sometimes you see someone else do it in a totally different way.

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