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semgrep
Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
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nvim-lsp-installer
Discontinued Further development has moved to https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim!
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navigator.lua
Code analysis & navigation plugin for Neovim. Navigate codes like a breeze🎐 Exploring LSP and 🌲Treesitter symbols a piece of 🍰 Take control like a boss 🦍
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statusline.lua
A zero-config minimal statusline for neovim written in lua featuring awesome integrations and blazing speed!
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xmonad
The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager (by colonelpanic8)
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dotfiles discussion
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What OS do you self-host on?
NixOS. If you still need Docker you can define and manage that via Nix too. I love it, both for this and managing development environments. Happy to answer any questions.
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What would you consider to be a must for a modern 2022 dev stack?
With Nix we have a shell.nix in the root of our repo describing all of the project's system dependencies. It looks something like this. You can pin nixpkgs with Flakes (think lockfiles) or by hardcoding a specific revision. We do the latter because I didn't want to complicate the Nix install for everyone by requiring they enable experimetnal features.
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What Plugins do you use to manage LSP ?
Nix, for example updating from rls to rust-analyzer.
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Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf – yujinyuz
I agree that the documentation story could be better. I also think it's a great shame that the language isn't statically-typed, so to understand how to use something I have to inspect its source code.
I've found it to be quite flexible though. For example, here's a commit in which I apply a patch to a tool to solve a problem that the derivation hadn't taken into account (and absent a home-manager solution): https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/commit/867dd3b4d4b3942a0aa...
- Xmobar vs Polybar
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Good tech blog recommendations?
You may like to look at my newsboat config. It's biased towards FP and Linux.
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Which WM do you use, and why?
Sure thing, I manage it in my dotfiles repo here.
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Latest xmonad on NixOS
I wonder if you'd have better luck if you built your xmonad as a proper Haskell app and didn't use the built-in --recompile stuff. It's not Nix, but see here an example of how I'm doing that.
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What values do you like in your git global config?
Here's my config: https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.config/git/config
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Quick & dirty project-wide fuzzy search in vim
This is possible for quickfix, see my dotfiles commit here.
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