I use Claude Code. I like Claude Code. According to Steve Yegge’s Eight-Circuit Model of Claudesciousness, I’m a pretty solid Stage 6, edging into 7 on heavy days. I think most engineers, most of the time, can get most of their work done faster with one of these tools than not, although the force multiplier of that speedup is probably not as extreme as it is in my case. Why is that? ...
Did you know Vim has a client-server model baked in? Of course it does. If you run 1 vim --servername LOVE , then in another terminal something like 1 vim --servername LOVE --remote-send "<Cmd>colorscheme peachpuff<CR>" , you’ll find your Vim terminal switch to the creamy default theme all true gangsters love - without you actually having to do anything. I frequently flip between a US- and Finnish-based keyboard while doing my language studies. I already had a tiny shell script in place which plays a seventh major chord every time they switch, courtesy of Sway WM: ...