Julia EvansOct 10
notes on switching to Helix from vim https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/
Notes on switching to Helix from vim

Notes on switching to Helix from vim

Julia Evans
Show threadJulia EvansOct 11

I haven’t blogged for a while and I forgot how internet commenters can get bizarrely angry about statements like “I got tired of managing my vim config so I decided to stop using vim for now”, as if it’s some kind of attack on vim (or on them??)

It makes me really appreciate @grimalkina’s work on developer culture, like this https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5_v2

I still have a lot to learn but her work has helped me start to understand where this stuff comes from

(I used vim for a long time and I love it!)

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Show threadCat HicksOct 11

@b0rk thank you!!

I really need to write my "when thinking about our tools is thinking about ourselves" paper

Show threadMichael Sokolov
@grimalkina @b0rk this makes me think about words like "rustacean" and I'm sure there are others. I mean I guess languages have always been at the center of evangelization efforts and don't probably even succeed without a certain amount of fanaticism, so maybe it's baked in to the process somehow
Oct 11 at 12:39pmWeb
Show threadCat HicksOct 11
@msokolov @b0rk to a certain extent entitativity (believing that a group has coherent "groupiness") is necessary to organize people and communities. Identities are inevitable but it's important to be mindful about what we load into them and how they're constructed/enforced!