They say that you should not deploy to production on Friday. So I deployed Terminal.css v2 with presets on Saturday. I hope you like it. Waiting for your contribution guys!
I’m currently reading John Romero’s bio — “Life in first person”, and discovered that DOOM Ultimate Edition has a really, really cool box cover.
Only today and on Monday, all my open source stuff is free! Total discount is 0%! Get it now!
Working on the second version of Terminal.css. More granular settings to match the old Terminal Theme styling and… community presets!
What is this Zed? Just let me open my project. I don’t want to see any of this AI shit — I have turned it off in the settings… Right? We are done.
This is how all promising projects fail. You have an idea, but then the hype (and investors I guess) comes and you end up with some crap that does more than you need because “you need it anyway”. Like, no? It’s sad…
“Basically, the people who win are the people who manage to make things the most inconvenient for you” — Richard Greenblatt
Happy birthday Half-Life 2!
If you are interested, Valve has released a documentary about history of developing HL2. Worth watching.
I love watching/listening interviews with Brian Kernighan but… Please Mr. Kernighan, buy some good microphone ;-)
You can’t compete with vim + tmux… You just can’t…
Flirting a little bit with Zed Editor.
I’m so glad that vim motions are first class citizen there, so I can easily mix all my favorite movement (VSCode + vim). It’s also probably the best looking editor so far, very minimal and snappy (for now, heh). The way how themes change the overall appearance is something that I’d implement if I only wish to create an editor by myself.
Another thing is how it consumes computer’s resources. It seems that it handles it better than VSCode, but sometimes it can spawn so many unnecessary node sub-processes that I need to do a hard reset. Because of that I had to turn off manually (which is a little painful) few language servers that I don’t need, like: tailwindcss-language-server which comes enabled by default.
When it comes to marketing, it feels that they trying to sell Zed through AI features right now (before they were pitching it as a collaborative editor — like Figma, but for the developers), because everyone is doing it… Personally I don’t need any of it, I just want to have a minimal, fast, reliable editor without Electron inside.
Also the way how Zed handles LSPs and extensions really bugs me at the moment… I feel that I — as a user — don’t have any control over it… I hope they will change it.
The good thing though is that everything is open source and it’s kinda cool that Thorsten Ball (subscribe to his newsletter Register Spill) works on Zed.
So right now I’m trying Zed, but still have vim opened on the side…