It’s become a common practice to keep one’s dotfiles version controlled, oftentimes mirrored somewhere like Github. A lot of people start their own dotfile collection based (forked) off of someone else’, but that never felt right to me. In my view, dotfiles are personal, sensitive configuration files that are explicitly defined to one’s own taste. It never made sense to me to want to use a giant wad of files with who knows what configuration directives in there.| jip.dev
Everyone that uses Vim and their grandmothers have apparently adopted the use of statusline plugins like vim-powerline or vim-airline. The latter, more recent vim-airline has gained popularity due to the fact that vim-powerline was deprecated in favor of a still-in-development rewrite that aims to provide a more general foundation for people to use the same kind of statusline in other areas, such as tmux and shell prompts (cringe). So now everyone can have the same look: solarized and some po...| jip.dev
In my previous post I talked about how I spent a while configuring my system, specifically urxvt and zsh, in preparation for setting up xmonad. I’ve finally gotten around to setting up xmonad. One problem in particular stopped me from continuing with the rest of the configuration. Update: Shortly after posting in the issue tracker entry for this issue relating my experience and affirming that the proposed patch fixed the problem, the gracious developers merged the patch into the main tree.| jip.dev