Sal's
Sal's
Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
Latest Posts
Check out this neat lil thingie I just stumbled into, courtesy of nvim-autopairs:
Vim is the Samurai. There is stillness, then a flash of action, and the opponent's head is rolling on the floor. Vim has no time for your shit until you can demonstrate the basic decorum, but then will accept you dutifully as an...
As I've mentioned a few too many times, I've been cavorting in the terminal. I'm learning a lot and having a ball. One recent discovery I'm pretty thrilled about is christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator, which lets you seamlessly move between...
Reuters reports that Amazon will lay off another 30,000 people. Summary bullets from the top of the article: Job cuts may affect HR, devices, services, operations CEO Jassy aims to reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use Amazon shares rise...
Want to get rid of these? (From the macOS System Settings app.) Me too. I didn't think it was possible because the only clickable option is an Add Coverage button. But if you click that, and wait for a spinner for a minute, you'll then...
I often enjoy other bloggers' weekly notes, so I'll give it a shot myself. Terminal stuffI'm still deep in the terminal-emulated rabbit hole with Neovim, Tmux, and a supporting cast of characters including chezmoi for dotfiles, tmuxp for...
Gummy snakes, red wine, Practical Vim exercises.
I'm fascinated by the command line. This is why I'm drawn to things like Linux, Vim, Tmux, Helix, etc. After a couple weeks of renewed, frenetic obsession with my CLI rig, I'm taking some time to understand where this drive comes from....
After reading Julia Evans's latest post on switching from Vim to Helix and all the positive commentary on HN, I'm giving it a shot. I'm amusing myself here, because I very recently gave Vim another go and then quickly bailed on that...
To my surprise, I’ve managed to shed quite a few pounds over the past year. I started out around 193 pounds, which, on my 5 foot 10 frame (more like 5 foot 10 and 5/8, but who’s counting), put me on the pudgy side. And I felt pudgy. I...
For years I've seen people praise NetNewsWire, and the latest batch of positive sentiment finally pushed me to try it — primarily because I learned that you can use Miniflux as the backend. As everyone of course remembers, I started...
TLDR: Check whether a used device is in a Mobile Device Management (MDM) pool before buying it. I bought a used iPad Pro 12.9” off of Craigslist. I bought it to use with my new exercise bike, which I may write about in another post....
I’ve always had issues falling asleep. My wife conks out in minutes, while I proceed to flop around for an hour or more. And then I wake up to pee around 3-4 a.m., usually leading to more flopping and lost sleep. It can be frustrating. I...
I have a lot of things I really want to write about. But I'm just not sitting down to write them. I'm reminding myself not to feel bad about this or that it "means" anything — other than that I've got a lot of stuff going on right now....
Rounding out my hat-trick of posts this morning: Kudos to Ree for their post, 11 things I like about my job. Three cheers for positivity on the internet!