Kshitij's Weblog

Zed hosted their first meetup in Berlin this evening.

Our current Neovim setup allows us to indent our code files with the keybinding = G .

Language Server Protocol (LSP) allows our text editors to communicate with another program using a simple client-server architecture.

Bookmarking this page as a reference for compiler choices.

Even though web browsers do not render TIFF images natively, I find them easy to operate on for my trivial image manipulation tasks.

Really enjoyed part 2 of this series from my colleague.

Check out Valdrada - a small tool I built while learning Dithering effect.

tldr: I still do not understand Treesitter but this intro was helpful.

A bit about computer programming history.

Engaging and theorical introduction to WebAssembly.

What are Neovim options?

Ref: lazy.nvim explained - TJ DeVries | YouTube Neovim extends the Vim API to enable developers to tweak the editor to their liking.

Today’s session was a theoretical introduction to the Lua programming language.

Think of CSS Grid almost as a spreadsheet i.e. define the columns and rows as structure/template for the content that goes into it.

Today, I spent about 30 mins to go over the :Tutor Chapter 1.

Installing Neovim We can conveniently install Neovim using a system supported package manager (like Homebrew on Mac, pacman on Arch).

I tried out Vim during uni days, before giving it up in favour of Sublime Text.

I have never user a slide rule.

Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft.

I pulled this talk out of my antilibrary today.

Gentle reminder to self: Re-read “Brave New World”, “Brave New World Revisited”, and “Island”.

Rediscovered this classic ~4 mins of pure joy.

The PostgreSQL query planner can flip the join sides for efficiency.

A bit of a gloomy post for Monday morning.

“You can pick anyone, and we’re anyone” isn’t going to be helpful going forward.

What does “mastery” in software look like in the age of generative code?

The goal isn’t to delegate your core work, it’s to identify and delegate the secondary grunt work tasks, so you can focus on the main thing that matters.

If I’m in the mood for something lighter, I can just look into my “Fun” folder to check out new stuff from The Oatmeal or xkcd.

Practical tip on creating a more accessible input field with a label: Use explicit association with for and id HTML attributes instead of implicit association when defining a form field.

Aside from the usual DHH rant, this section is worth reflecting on: Can I find more of such investments where it hurts for like a couple of days, and then maybe its annoying for a week, and then it’s kind of incredible for the next decade?

Good reference to keep in mind when building login forms.

A pretty balanced and insightful post by Mitchell Hashimoto on LLM augmented code generation.

Armin is the creator of a couple of Python frameworks that made programming fun for me - Flask and click, more than a decade ago.

Beautiful, motivating video yet again from Tracksmith.

Every time I watch TJ explain the config, either I learn something new or refine existing knowledge about my Neovim setup - new keymaps, LSP config that I can play with.

The argument to focus on Quality of life-years instead of Quantity of life-years is compelling.

At my current role, I have been building a few Agentic workflows using LLMs.

This series by Zed Industries is worth following.

Find what problems people are working on, and filter what aligns with you.

In general, I find physical artifacts to be almost always fragile to the effects of time (including plastic).

macOS Sequoia introduced native tiling window support.

This article makes a strong case for using the “generic” implementation (provided by the slices package) for sorting slices in Go.

I switched my terminal from Warp to Ghostty over the weekend.

Finally Gary Turk got around to making a sequel to his viral video “Look Up”.

I admire Nassim Nicholas Taleb a lot.

Handy reference for when to use the different versions of UUIDs.

This morning I ran about 22 km, for a weekly total of over 65kms across 6 runs.

Most of the books I found meaningful are products of translation.

This video is the most informative introduction to the game of Cricket I have come across.