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New comment by lervag in "Top Features in Mise You're Not Using"

lervag — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:17:14 +0000

I've been a very happy user of mise since when it was named rtx - before that I used asdf. Thanks, jdx, for creating this! And I found the blog post useful, as there seems to be several features that I was not aware of that I might want to adopt going forward. For instance the task sources and outputs was new to me!

Top Features in Mise You're Not Using

lervag — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:10:13 +0000

Article URL: https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-03-02-10-mise-features/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621391

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by lervag in "Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)"

lervag — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:01:59 +0000

I'll also vouch for fugitive - it's really good!

New comment by lervag in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

lervag — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:07:28 +0000

I'll vouch for that - mise is awesome and replaces both sdkman, pyenv, and other similar tools that are restricted to one ecosystem.

New comment by lervag in "Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL"

lervag — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:06:49 +0000

Related tools:

- https://github.com/kaaveland/eugene/

- https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-language-serv...

New comment by lervag in "The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters"

lervag — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:02:22 +0000

I don't think you can choose 30 days. It is 5 years or no service. At least that's what it looks like to me, I did not find a way to accept the new policies without accepting 5 years.

New comment by lervag in "Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)"

lervag — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:48:02 +0000

Notice that other shells also has associative arrays, or at least zsh. I've found hyperpolyglot [0] to be a nice Rosetta stone for translating syntax between e.g. bash and zsh.

[0]: https://hyperpolyglot.org/unix-shells#associative-arrays

New comment by lervag in "Ask HN: How do you keep track of “Log in with” accounts"

lervag — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:38:45 +0000

I use two things:

* A password manager (PasswordStore [0]), in which I may make entries without passwords but where I indicate my ID on a given account.

* A personal wiki in which I may indicate for something that I have an account connected to e.g. Google or whatever.

When I come to some service that I vaguely remember having used before, I will find the necessary info either in my personal notes or in my password manager.

[0]: www.passwordstore.org

New comment by lervag in "Mise: a polyglot tool version manager"

lervag — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:52:28 +0000

`mise` does not use shims by default, but it does have support for it. See https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/shims.html.

Friends don't let friends export to CSV

lervag — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:57:18 +0000

Article URL: https://kaveland.no/friends-dont-let-friends-export-to-csv.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814334

Points: 245

# Comments: 440

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:33:52 +0000

> But somehow this suggests to me that I might have been doing something wrong. I use vim+ultisnips+(your excellent vimtex) while you use neovim. Out of curiousity, do you specifically set your python provider for your neovim in your config?

Yes, I do. I use a dedicated virtual environment for neovim which I create with the following snippet; then I set the `g:python3_host_prog` accordingly [0].

    mkdir -p ~/.local/venvs/nvim
    python -m venv ~/.local/venvs/nvim
    source ~/.local/venvs/nvim/bin/activate
    pip install --upgrade pip
    pip install pynvim

[0]: https://github.com/lervag/dotnvim/blob/c3169dd18f4396258f83c...

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:02:34 +0000

Thanks for the kind words! <3

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:00:35 +0000

Just be aware that the marker based folding can be annoying to collaborators if you are working on documents with other authors. With a plugin like FastFold [0] you should be able to have fast folding with the expr foldtype.

[0]: https://github.com/Konfekt/FastFold

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:58:56 +0000

I don't think this is a big problem with VimTeX; I've worked quite a lot on these things, and my personal experience is that VimTeX is now quite fast both with syntax highlighting and with folding; although for folding, you do want to use the various "hacks" like the manual fold option or a plugin like FastFold.

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:57:21 +0000

I believe syntax highlighting with VimTeX (which is suggested in the blog post) should be quite fast and generally feel snappy.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of VimTeX.

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:55:00 +0000

I use both Vim (with wiki.vim, a plugin I've made based on Vimwiki) and Anki. I find the combination is very powerful!

I keep a journal for work related stuff and a wiki/personal knowledge base for everything (both work and personal). I use Anki to memorize things I believe may be useful to have readily available and I use my wiki as an extended "long-term memory", sort of.

New comment by lervag in "LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking"

lervag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:51:23 +0000

> But UltiSnips works terribly with neovim [1] [2]. Why? Because UltiSnips uses python, and neovim's python interface is 100x slower than vim's python interface. There are design decisions for this and I'm not trying to say that neovim is bad. I use both vim and neovim. But I use vim+UltiSnips+vimtex for writing LaTeX.

I'm using neovim with UltiSnips (and VimTeX), and I don't really have any big issues with it. I'm not saying you are wrongm but I do think the problem may be somewhat exagerated.

New comment by lervag in "Ask HN: Can you take more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?"

lervag — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:45:27 +0000

I think these rules are more or less the same in Scandinavia. The Norwegian rules are well explained at Arbeidstilsynet [0]. Basically 5 weeks per year, 6 weeks if you are 60 years old or older. Of course, people may have more vacation per contract, but in general, you can't have less.

Most Norwegians take about 4 weeks of vacation during July.

[0]: https://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/en/working-conditions/holiday...

New comment by lervag in "Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash"

lervag — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:47:39 +0000

Shameless plug: there's also wiki.vim [0], which I believe is starting to be a real contender to Vimwiki.

Regardless: In my experience, Vim + wiki with some additional plugins for fast searching and navigation is a very good combo!

[0]: https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/

The importance of a handbook-first approach to documentation

lervag — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/handbook-first-documentation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34452129

Points: 4

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