I’ve been using Vim for over 10 years. The first few years I used it badly. Later I took time to really learn it. Now I can use it fairly decently, but I still learn new things every now and then.

It feels like a really good investment. It’s been around forever, it’s gonna be around forever, it’s installed on almost all computers, and you’re going to be forced to use it at some point or another.

I really enjoy being able to go to any computer and starting up a familiar editor, without installing or configuring stuff. I also use a very vanilla Vim. If a coworker’s laptop or some server has a different Vim config than mine, I can usually do vim -u NONE to get back to a familiar place.

Because … well … wait, not a bad idea. Although, this would get rid of comments. Which in my case, I didn’t have too many, so I could have manually added them back.

Yeah, I’ve definitely grown to like TOML, especially after spending hours trying to edit a giant (nested) YAML file…

I didn’t realize the indentation in TOML was purely aesthetic.

This

[servers]
  [servers.alpha]
  ip = "10.0.0.1"
  dc = "eqdc10"

  [servers.beta]
  ip = "10.0.0.2"
  dc = "eqdc10"

equals this

[servers]
[servers.alpha]
ip = "10.0.0.1"
dc = "eqdc10"

[servers.beta]
ip = "10.0.0.2"
dc = "eqdc10"

which equals this

{
  "servers": {
    "alpha": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.1",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    },
    "beta": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.2",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    }
  }
}

Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies

AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I’ve definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn’t the music or movies, it’s the recommendations. There’s a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don’t have a good way to find it.

It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.