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Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
One thing that didn't carry over from my i3 setup when moving over to Sway (i.e. Wayland) was the touchpad configuration. Input devices was a display server concern under X.Org, so the window manager had nothing to do with it. Notably, now click-on-tap is not working for me …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
As of my previous post on extending NeoVim for commenting and uncommenting code blocks, I'm on something of a NeoVim extension streak. The flavor of the week is syntax highlighting. I've been using the highly customizable nvim-treesitter for the past few years. This depends on there being a Tree-sitter parser …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've been using some variation of Vim for going on a decade now, yet I've never bothered with an efficient way of commenting out code. It just isn't something that I do very often. But I saw a colleague comment out and uncomment lines of code like a breeze in …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've been using psql for many years to interface with PostgreSQL databases.
It's simple, pretty much always available as it's usually bundled with
PostgreSQL and just does what it's supposed to. It does, however, have some
pretty dangerous defaults. Not only are writes allowed, but it also
automatically commits any …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
Wayland appears to be the future of window systems in the world of Linux, replacing the aging X.Org window system. The Arch Wiki article on X.Org refers to it as "the alternative and successor [of X.Org]" and Canonical even dropped its own Mir display server in favor …