joes-sandbox VS neovim

VSCode isn’t fine, you are just suffering from web app Stockholm syndrome: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/blob/master/editor-p...

VSCode is slower than Emacs/Vim at e.g. syntax highlighting a large file by a factor of three. It’s slower on a search and replace by a factor of seven. It’s slower than those editors by about the same ratio as Atom is slower than VSCode.

It's amazing how old ZPL is. I wrote a Zebra-140 driver (in C..) in something like 1993.

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/doc/zebr...

It's a simple macro-based typesetting language that can be used to quickly make many different label images from a database. You uploaded the compiled labels into a handheld computer so that labels could be printed on a production line. One option for the computer was the original Psion Organizer II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser

I've done similar things with UARTs over long distance- I was about to write about it, but I actually have it github:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/hw/lined...

CAN is interesting in that the protocol is pretty complex, but from software point of view it's just send_packet() and register a handler for receive packets. The annoying thing is that MCUs don't have built-in CAN line drivers.

A new thing is 1000BASE-T1- Gigabit Ethernet over a single twister pair. This is supposed to be the future in the auto world..

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

Neovim: Make sure you have Neovim installed on your system. You can check the official website for installation instructions: https://neovim.io/ Git: We'll be using Git to clone the LazyVim starter pack. If you don't have Git, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads

There are several ways to install Neovim. This wiki provides several guidelines on how to install Neovim.

All these thoughts I've shared, I would have them on occasion - but ever since I switched to Linux and Neovim, my curiosity has been through the roof. Switching over to Neovim and Linux was a not so fun weekend of configuration and spending half a day getting my work's local dev environment running on my new OS (which no one has tested development on). But I now have a deeper understanding of the tools I use, and have a text editor configured to be the most optimal for the way I want to use it.