2023-03-20 : Random Geekery

Stupid VS Code Vim Tricks

Still trying my experiment with using Dendron in VS Code as part of some sort of public second brain. Honestly I don’t know how long that’ll last, so I figure better share the fun stuff I learn here too.

Anyways this afternoon I installed the Vim extension for VS Code and learned just enough about custom keybindings to add a few.

settings.json

    {
  "vim.leader": "<space>",
  "vim.normalModeKeyBindings": [
    {
      "before": ["<leader>", "t", "l"],
      "commands": ["workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility"]
    },
    {
      "before": ["<leader>", "t", "r"],
      "commands": ["workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar"]
    },
    {
      "before": ["<leader>", "t", "t"],
      "commands": ["workbench.action.toggleLightDarkThemes"]
    }
  ]
}

vim.leader is handy as a prefix for extended custom bindings in Vim; I prefer the spacebar as my leader
<leader> t l toggles my left sidebar
<leader> t r toggles my right sidebar
<leader> t t toggles between light and dark theme

These bindings look and work very similar to some Logseq default bindings. That’s no accident. I like those bindings.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 08:41

XFinity outage reminding me why local-first notes are a good thing.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 11:29

@bitprophet I’ve been seeing folks do Notion-style dashboards with Obsidian Canvas and Dataview. It all sounds needlessly complex and therefore I must try it.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 11:30

@mikaeleiman I got this 🤏 close to committing to Tana yesterday and I’m so glad I got distracted by a shiny thing instead.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 11:33

@kusuriya I have one of my setups using git to sync through — Github.

So anyways sometime this week I’ll polish up the git repo host on my Pi.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 14:59

Had first therapy session with my first therapist that had a clear understanding of CBT[1] and DBT and the differences between them since oh 2001 or so and that’s pretty cool.

[1]: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you perv

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 18:17

How am I supposed to use VS Code as a knowledge repository if I can’t even paste 5,000 lines of JSON into a Markdown file without it turning to molasses?

Rhetorical question

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 19:10

new note on random geekery:

Stupid VS Code Vim Tricks

#VsCode #CONFIG #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2023/03/stupid-vs-code-vim-tricks/

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 19:31

@antijingoist I’m accustomed to Vim and Neovim, which just kind of shrug when I do something like the paste scenario.

Sublime’s a delight, though. And I could likely use OrgExtended for much of the stuff I need.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:47

Ye gods but LinkedIn is depressing lately if you’re — okay right yes LinkedIn is always depressing if you’re a thinking feeling human being but folks are way too excited about black box LLMs.

I love omega prime markov chains too, but the FOSS nerd and curious diner in me really prefers to know what this meat is made out of.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:49

But anyways LinkedIn is the kind of depressing where I don’t want to work with any of those folks posting.

Though I suspect I could sell them a lovely AI bridge in Brooklyn.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:56

Me: “I need a job. I’ll go check LinkedIn.”

checks LinkedIn

Me: “I need a drink. And to vent. God I really need to vent.”

switches to the Mastodon tab

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:58

@TheDarkHorse Life is art.

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:58

@thegibson nyte nyte!

sorry i had a joke but i forgot because trying to figure out how to pronounce “nyte”

sleep well

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 21:59

@TheDarkHorse everybody dies frustrated and sad

and that is beautiful

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 22:01

I have nobody to blame but myself

#NowPlaying

TMBG — “Don’t Let’s Start”

https://song.link/us/i/635917656

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 23:49

Tonight’s bedtime drawing is a small segment of that manual symmetry pic I’ve been working on and off in #LineaSketch

In progress mandala style circular drawing with floral effects

hackers.town: 2023-03-20 Mon 23:53

@hardison I dig. I may have trouble comprehending, but it sounds awesome and I’m curious about the how.