How to install nvim-ufo in LazyVim to enable foldable code blocks
A feature that I've found myself missing since making the switch to Vim as my editor of choice is the ability to easily fold and expand code blocks. I know this functionality is included in Neovim, but I couldn't understand the native implementation enough to use
What is a carbon handprint?
I've recently started reading "Building Green Software" as part of an online book club and, in the introduction, the authors reference the potential "carbon handprint" of software. I wasn't familiar with this term, so I decided to dig into it to learn
Git Log's Hidden Gems: Using -S and -L for Powerful Code History Search
Ever needed to track down when a specific piece of code was first introduced in a project? As part of some refactoring I had to do recently, I needed to do just that for a variable on a Django model. I was already familiar with the basic git log command,
Using XOR to write concise conditionals
It's not uncommon that I sometimes write if statements where the overall conditional is true when both conditions are true or both are false. As an example, let's say I'm validating input from an API call where I'm updating information on a
Fixing "No preset version installed for command poetry"
Poetry is a packaging and dependency management tool for Python, and a tool that didn't exist when I worked with Python many years before I started working at Float. I also hadn't been exposed to asdf, which is a handy little tool for managing multiple runtimes.
Enforcement of function keyword arguments in Python
Before starting in my new role a couple of months ago, it had been a very long time since I had programmed in Python. Incidentally, I kept working in roles over the past several years that involved either full-stack Javascript or mostly Javascript with a little bit of another language