Post AziMU2Z1r7crWMJDFY by jsbarretto@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AziMTmqAJdpIksCfjs by jsbarretto@social.coop
       2025-10-29T21:25:13Z
       
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       A few weeks ago I hit a really fun personal milestone: my text editor is now sufficiently complete that I can start using it as my daily driver.Now that I'm using it full-time, I'm finding so many opportunities to make tiny productivity improvements here and there. If I have a thing I want to make less bad, I can just... make it less bad!I highly recommend building your own version of at least one tool that you use on a daily basis, if for no other reason than that it's just really very fun.
       
 (DIR) Post #AziMTul8sCYtJbum1I by jsbarretto@social.coop
       2025-10-29T21:30:30Z
       
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       I think I am quite lucky in that I have a relatively low bar for what I consider 'essential' in a text editor. Syntax highlighting, multi-buffer support, and a decent keyboard-driven file browser is about all I need.Maybe at some point I'll dive into LSP support, but I've always been happy invoking compilers manually in a separate shell so it's no skin off my nose.I imagine that someone used to the luxuries of VS Code or its ilk might want to pick an alternative tool to build for themselves.
       
 (DIR) Post #AziMU2Z1r7crWMJDFY by jsbarretto@social.coop
       2025-10-29T21:39:08Z
       
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       If you're a professional software developer, so much of your life is dedicated to writing code that effectively just vanishes into a void, never to be seen again. Maybe it gets rewritten in a few months, maybe the project gets cancelled, maybe nobody uses the feature, maybe you leave your employer before ever get to see it hit production.But writing tools for yourself is great & immediately useful. Writing code and then immediately experiencing the value of that code is such an endorphin rush.