Drew Neil

Understand the root causes behind flaky tests and how to manage them in @nelstrom's talk from #emberfest23! 🚀 Replay the full talk: buff.ly/3ZZ6pPD

Learn what is causing tests to be flaky and strategies to overcome the issue in @nelstrom’s talk at #emberfest23. Full schedule here: emberfest.eu

zed.dev looks really interesting. I love that “at the speed of thought” strap line. Haven’t I seen that somewhere before?

@JoseALobato Glad to hear it, thanks.

@nelstrom re-reading and practising with your Practical Vim book. Amazing resource. Thanks! pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/…

@_aitor @briansuda Can’t believe 10 years have already passed since we were hanging out in Reykjavik!

@briansuda @nelstrom Yep, I remember him from Iceland and have had its courses/book noted for a very long time. Maybe 02023 will be the year!

What is the best Vim course? I'm thinking of using 2023 to try Vim again. This would be my third time trying to deep dive into the editor, with the first two being pretty complete failures, so any suggestion about the best (paid) resources online would be much appreciated!

@medit4tive Ah, sorry about that. Should be sorted now.

@nelstrom Hey Drew, what's going on here? :(

@thorstenball Glad to hear that the book helped!

I was just skimming through @nelstrom's Practical Vim, which I haven't opened in a few years, and what a payoff that was. Already learned/remembered a few tiny things that can come in handy.

@darthdicer Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas ⁦@nelstrom⁩ !!

@JanVLC @dominikb1888 @vim_tricks That mapping for visual mode should be safe, because the . command doesn’t do anything in visual mode. The ‘micro/macro’ behaviour is a normal mode thing. 👌🏻

Use :%norm to perform a normal mode command on every line of the file. 👉 Example and video on the blog: bit.ly/3cZwDth 📨 Subscribe for weekly Vim tips: bit.ly/vimtricks

@TeejDeVries @VimconfLive Glad I could drop in for a bit (though it’s late here). I got to hear two of the talks. Both really informative and well delivered. Great job everyone! 👏🏻

@nelstrom @VimconfLive What did you think? Hope you enjoyed it!

I'm tuning in for @VimconfLive now.

@Mairo_Rufus @VimconfLive Thanks. I'm glad to hear the book helped!

@nelstrom @VimconfLive Just wanna say I am a huuge fan of your work. Practical Vim helped me tremendously

Excited to get this shipped! Our very special episode of The @Changelog podcast all about #Vim with an *amazing* ensemble of voices: @b0rk! @nelstrom! @noopkat! @garybernhardt! changelog.fm/450 A few of my favorite moments from the pod 🧵

I can really recommend this course. A bunch of us developers at @finkoslo had an inspiring time with Drew a couple of months ago. Great fun as well. It works perfectly as an online session.

@adonaldson I did a brew install recently which spun up the fans on my machine. An hour later I checked back to find that one of my dependencies dependencies was depending upon subversion. How did we end up here?

@andreasoverland 😂

@nelstrom Btw, I got your book from my wife for Xmas :) To be honest, she thought I wanted a book about Vin Diesel and asked for just that at the bookstore. Luckily my 12 yo. son was with her and and managed to correct it to Vim :)

@nelstrom Have you considered having a pluing/setting that automatically exits from Insert mode back to Normal mode after a short time of inactivity? I mean, most of the time when I stop typing and start thinking, I will mostly go into Normal mode.

@andreasoverland There’s a tip in Practical Vim called “Pause with your brush off the page”, where I compare using Vim with painting. Brush on canvas == Insert mode Brush off canvas == Normal mode A painter spends the majority of their time with the brush off the page.

@andreasoverland personally, I prefer to train the muscle memory so that lingering in Insert mode never happens. I dip into Insert mode, type a few characters, then escape back to Normal mode without even thinking about it.

@andreasoverland does this do what you want? vim.fandom.com/wiki/To_switch… (I haven’t tried this myself)

@mseckington I’m jealous! Must have been great to hear them live.

@nelstrom Yeah I love Postmodern Jukebox! Got to see them live in London 2 years ago! My version is based on her cover, but had to simplify it a bit since I only had a week to learn!

I’ve really been enjoying the new way our choir works. Rather than prep parts that we can’t sing together anyway, we’re focusing on solo songs. We get a list of song choices to choose from each week then get to prepare & record them and get individual feedback on it!