I can just ask Claude, “make leader / toggle a terminal at the bottom of the screen , and leader t swaps it to the right side” and it’ll just do that. I liked a theme but I wanted it to also change the status line of the focused window, and it just did that for me. I had an issue where the neo tree would freeze for a few seconds, and Claude figured out it was a bad interaction with the git in our toolchain, etc etc.

I have my very own text editor that I customized in plain English! I could’ve learnt spent hours learning Neovim’s style of Lua, researching packages, debugging, etc, but this gets the same stuff done way faster and lets me get to work. This was the biggest thing that kept me going back to either a preconfigured Vim setup like LazyVim or vscode. Definitely recommend.

https://booksbythefoot.com/

There is one major improvement you can do on Mac, at least for menus:

https://varun.ch/posts/macos-keyboard/

1. learning stuff is fun. even if AI drastically changes what it means to be a software engineer, as it stands, we still need software engineers. You can go to university, learn CS/Coding by hand, and on the side keep up with what it means to be productive with AI tools. That way, you're still employable and you get the gift of getting to learn stuff (perhaps at great cost, but maybe you live somewhere where the education is affordable)

2. the underlying principles aren't changing. Computer Science is still Computer Science. computers still have memory and the basic data structures are always going to be what they are. I think it's important to know what we're building on top of. (ie. a React developer should probably understand the DOM. A C developer should understand what their code is compiling to). I don't think it's any different with using AI to write code. Learning programming/computer science will still be important even with AI because it's important to have people who understand the full stack that we build technology on top of.

3. you could work on the AI. People still need to understand the math that builds AI. You could be one of those people.

4. AI is great at making things that already exist. but we will still need to make _new_ things. Humans do that.

my main thing is, if I wasn't in school to learn Computer Science, what would I be doing instead? I certainly don't want to be a someone who's job is genuinely replaceable by an agent. I don't think all programmers will be like that.

If the LEGO are truly accurate to the real thing, that might take a while!

Genuinely curious, because it's not something I think most people are aware of when they browse the web.

Gitea (what Forgejo forked from) recently stole the sidebar on repos from GitHub and I think that would be great for Forgejo to steal too…

Forgejo themed by Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo (the codeberg theme is extremely low contrast)

Forgejo default: https://v15.next.forgejo.org/pparaxan/quark

Forgejo themed by Lix: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix

Gitea: https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea

Gitea themed by Blender: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

I personally like Blender’s Gitea theme better than the rest but I guess that’s subjective. In dark mode I do not like the low contrast Codeberg theme or the default Forgejo theme, but all of the instances custom themes look great.

As far as Git forges go in general though.. tangled is very pretty https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core I think more power user oriented software should be comfortable with compact interfaces