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Vim to Helix IDE

Sat, 24 May 2025 11:40:05 +0800

I loved Vim; the keybindings, simplicity, and modal style usage. I could use plugins to achieve almost anything, enabling smooth workflows and tooling that others have pioneered.

However, as someone who jumps between frameworks, languages and projects, many past chosen plugins become redundant and forgotten. The last thing anyone needs is technical debt from their IDE, and so I entered a period of using JetBrains IDEs a couple of years ago when my role required me to focus on React.

Recently, I stumbled upon Helix IDE at the same time as Nix Flakes, and that spurred the realisation of this powerful but simple setup.

Blog Theme Updated

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:43:14 +0800

Well, it’s been ages since I’ve updated my blog. Usually I have something I want to blog about and then I get caught up with the idea that I haven’t implemented the features I wanted in my blog. Using Hugo’s taxonomies etc., I wanted to put into my blog the following:

Hacking Until The Baby Comes

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:37:37 +0800

Although there hasn’t been any updates to this blog, I actually have been hacking away and learning some new tools which I’m very excited about. My wife has been pregnant for the last 9 months, and I’ve had to prioritise baby preparations above my blog updates. Now that most of my preparations are in place, I can finally take a breath and look at this blog again while we wait. My baby boy can come any day now (anyone have stories of hacking in between newborn raising?).

The tools I’ve been excited about are Elixir and the wonderful Phoenix Framework.

New Blog

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:11:55 +0800

I’ve finally started a new blog at 808.ninja.

It’s bare at the moment, but hopefully my newly chosen blogging platform will allow me to be more efficient while writing posts. I have big plans for how I’m going to organise all of the varying content.