Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2021-10-23

Tags: hackers-town

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Try Riv if you like Vim and reStructuredText

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Riv is a wiki, but feels like more of a notebook. Think Deft for Emacs with journaling and HTML publishing. What makes Riv interesting — aside from the Vim thing — is that it uses reStructuredText for its native format.

It works well enough, especially once you build up muscle memory for Riv’s leader sequence C-e. Don’t overload it right away though! It includes some insert mode mappings, which can get real confusing if your preferred leader is a space.

Meanwhile I got a lot of Neovim ideas. Course, I need to get some more practice in with pynvim first. And I suppose some more practice with Riv.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2021-10-23 Sat 17:43

explaining IRC by analogy that a non-technical early 20-something could grasp, and how sometimes people found / find dating partners on it, and the loose community aspects.

“old” doesn’t begin to describe the feeling

hackers.town: 2021-10-23 Sat 19:12

New glasses with transition lenses because eyes are old.

I have to get used to a new way of seeing. It’s pretty awesome, if my eyes are pointed the right way for what I’m trying to look at.

hackers.town: 2021-10-23 Sat 20:55

Goodness but Nim is fun to play with. Keep in mind that I’ve been mostly in Python for a couple years now. I really get thrown off by begin/end blocks and curly braces for scope.

Anyways, fun syntax. No idea what I’d do with it.