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vhyrro

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A programmer. Can someone build me a hut in the woods pls. Lead dev of: - https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks - https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg

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Zach Daniel @zachdaniel.dev · 16d

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PostgreSQL 18 is hype.

PostgreSQL 18 Released!

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the worl...

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vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks to generous donations from our OpenCollective supporters we've now moved Luanox to a dedicated domain (beta.luanox.org)!

For reasons to support us be sure to check out
beta.luanox.org/donate :D

Discover the most popular and well-maintained packages in our ecosystem

beta.luanox.org

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 29d

We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/c...

crates.io phishing campaign | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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NTBBloodbath @amartin.beer · Sep 10

Designing for mobile-first in frontend development is fun... Until you come across mobile devices that for some reason have a viewport width less than 365 pixels. In some cases, they completely break CSS and you have to deal with edge cases. Why don't companies make phones with a viewport standard?

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 10

With the growth of luarocks maybe we should start advocating for internationalization in larger Neovim plugins? I think it'd be quite amazing.

You could throw a lua lib like github.com/kikito/i18n.... in your project and make a more accessible plugin than ever before 🎉

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 10

if you're already on emacs then I personally wouldn't bother :)

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'll never stop yapping out the jujutsu VCS. It's such a good tool and has entirely replaced Git for me, tbh. Even for the most simple of operations I find jj to be much more ergonomic. You also get the op log for free! :D

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate FOSS. For all the craziness that goes on in communities every day the fact that we can all reap the benefits of freedom in both senses of the word is really remarkable. After using FOSS for several years I've really forgotten this simple fact.

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'm complaining that people should wait it out and let other developers write wrappers around vim.pack before starting to use it full-time. Let people integrate lazy-loading, auto-configuration and more. If they're going this far they might as well just use git clone/git pull while they're at it :p

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I don't think vim.pack should change. It's got a good minimal feature set as it is. But people have a tendency to flock to the latest thing and then complain that something's missing features, despite it being the core design of vim.pack

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 7

I get that wanting to make a minimal config is a tempting idea, I love myself some minimalism, but in the case of a git-based plugin manager you're only losing quality of life features without much in return. Hoping to see some cool wrapper plugins around vim.pack soon.

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 7

I personally find the #neovim 0.12 plugin manager to be severely overhyped. It's great to have a standard interface for more sophisticated wrappers to step in, but it's still very basic. Users will end up on a wrapper plugin anyway. The best thing vim.pack is good for is bootstrapping other code.

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 7

Github OAuth is amazing. In the oauth data, username is called "nickname", and the nickname is called "name". definitely did not cause any headaches :p

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 6

ask the neovim developers for keybind namespaces first :p

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Starting work on native support in Lux for Luanox's API. It's so much more efficient than luarocks.org's, allowing you to do package search server-side, pull metadata about individual packages (instead of pulling a massive manifest file) and no weird stuttering or delays on the server. Excited!

LuaRocks - The Lua package manager

A website for submitting and distributing Lua rocks

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Give the luanox site a quick test run over on our beta: luanox-beta.neorg.org 🚀 🚀

A Lua module host for the Lux package manager, fully compatible with the rockspec format.

luanox-beta.neorg.org

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hooked up all the logic to the page for API keys.

I'll be releasing the page for beta testing to the public soon. It'll be a big test for the OAuth flow and key generation code :D

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Alright, settings page is fully designed and ready to roll 🔥

This one will definitely need further touch-ups before the final release, but I'm happy with it as is for now :)

Next up, the page that generates API keys 🚀

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 2

Huge win! Neovim now has a dedicated documentation page for plugin best practices 🎉

github.com/neovim/neovi...

docs: add guide for developing Lua plugins by mrcjkb · Pull Request #29073 · neovim/neovim

As requested by @justinmk in nvim-neorocks/nvim-best-practices#5 Using upstream to :help lua-guide nvim-neorocks/nvim-best-practices#5 (comment) as a guideline Reworded a to have a less "opin...

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 1

Alright, the MVP package page is ready 🚀

I'm already done with the backend endpoints, which are much more convenient to use over luarocks.org, and they sure as hell don't encode the API key in the URL itself ☠️

I guess the next natural step is to create a "legacy" API which is luarocks-compatible

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Aug 31

Putting in my full effort into finishing Luanox so it can finally hit production. First off, I revamped the landing page!

Things left:
- Ask the user for email if OAuth didn't provide it
- Search functionality
- Package view page
- Plenty of touchups and more API endpoints

Exciting stuff ahead 🚀

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Amidst all the projects I'm working on I decided to dedicate some time to Luanox - a more modern alternative to luarocks.org

We've had quite a few run-ins with the site misbehaving (as well as being slow) and so we're working on a sister site that will work in tandem with the main luarocks site :)

LuaRocks - The Lua package manager

A website for submitting and distributing Lua rocks

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lux update: I've been generally away and working on some private projects, but Marc's been creating a bunch of commits and fixes to Lux, so I'll be enumerating his work and showing it off in future posts!

It's high time that I return to writing some open source :)

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Folke is travelling" brothers in Christ he got so fed up with your github issues that he's currently taking lessons from Liziqi on how to build his own house somewhere in the Alps

vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm about to do the unthinkable - install Neovim nightly.

I've been all about the stability for the past 9 months but I think it's time to move over to the unstable world for a bit again :)

Hoping this will rekindle my passion for Neovim as well as give me a playing field for the upcoming lux.nvim