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diff --git a/content/computer-setup.md b/content/computer-setup.md index 7ae50ec..87555d8 100644 --- a/content/computer-setup.md +++ b/content/computer-setup.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ --- title: Computer setup draft: true -date: 2025-10-10 -lastmod: 2025-10-10 +date: 2025-11-05 --- ## Editors @@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ It is easy to install, configurable with highlighting for many languages, and ha I have a few very specific editors for some use cases, even if nowadays many extensions provide support for other use cases, and in a very usable editor - [Poedit](https://poedit.net/) is nice when working with translations, in Django for instance -- [Sublime Merge](https://www.sublimemerge.com/) has a great and snappy interface for staging changes. I find it much quicker to use than VSCode when many files are changed. ## Postgres @@ -28,10 +26,11 @@ queries in any IDE and running them via a CLI. ## Writing I have been using [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) as a knowledge base, and I'm quite happy with it. -When I don't want to manage a "workspace", I still have [Typora](https://typora.io/) that offers a very pure experience. This is the core of my Markdown experience? +When I don't want to manage a "workspace", I still have [Typora](https://typora.io/) that offers a very pure experience. This is the core of my Markdown experience. For more precise layouts, I use [typst](https://typst.app/). It replaces Latex for me, and has LSP support in VSCode at least. +In truth, I haven't used it extensively yet. ## Terminal @@ -43,3 +42,36 @@ It has a native looka and is quite performant, but I must say I don't know all t I have tries some AI-first IDEs, like Windsurf, but today I find CLI such as [claude-code](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code) and regular IDEs with autocomplete and agentic mode just good. I don't known if I'm missing on something. + +## Unix TUI + +I find TUI/CLI are great for tasks you'd like to be very quick to do. +I replaced some aged tools by more modern ones: +- [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) over `grep` (the syntax is simpler to me) + +I use [hyperfine](https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) for script benchmarks. +[ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) helps to interactively find disk usage and clean whole directories. + +## Git + +[Sublime Merge](https://www.sublimemerge.com/) has a great and snappy interface for staging changes. I find it much quicker to use than VSCode when many files are changed. +I used to use TUI to get this performance, but I don't need it anymore. + +My alternative is to use [difftastic](https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic) to review +large intricate changes: this tool provides semantic diffing that shows language specific changes, +all withint the usual git CLI (`git add -p`). + +There are also some git tips I sometimes need to find again: +- `git diff --find-renames --diff-filter=M origin/master` reduces file move noise when reviewing large refactors + +I can also setup file specific diffing within the CLI: +- [sqldiff](https://sqlite.org/sqldiff.html) provides sqlite file diffs (add `**/*.db diff=sqlite3` in `.gitattributes`) + +## Containers + +I used Podman for some time, but I went back to Docker to remove some friction. + +[lazydocker](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) simplifies dynamic container management over +repeated `docker compose ps|stop` ... + +[dive](https://github.com/wagoodman/dive) is a great tool to investigate why a container image is small or big. |