Somraj Saha Jarmos-san

Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty

I did not submit this to Hacker News and did not intend that this post would have high circulation but have no real problem with it being there or with it having such. I have more recent comments below. This post is from January 2020 and predates the Modular Font Editor K (MFEK) project.

I have not worked on Rust projects in quite a while, and don't know if I ever will again. I feel many crate maintainers are way too perfectionist, for example, despite all the developer hours that went into this PR, it took the effort within years to be (halfway) merged.

There's always a reason not to merge, isn't there? It would be better done with a new nightly language feature, or the function signature should have a where clause, or the documentation is not perfect. There's always a new nit to pick in the world of Ru

VSCode: Python Sort Imports on File Save (isort)

Make sure the isort extension is installed in VSCode

Update April 2025

The latest VSCode update brought the requirement to use a python environment 3.8+ for isort:

2025-04-24 13:28:29.888 [info] No interpreter found from setting isort.interpreter

Setting up Prettier and ESLint with pre-commit hook

Initialize Git repository
```
git init
```
Create .gitignore file and add the following:
```
node_modules/
*.env
```

Piano Covers of Pop Songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/henryecker/playlist/4SBOdi7IMfCrYKZqCqtuXA?si=FL1axIJTTTqYWXYqS6QICw
Extreme focus coding music: Primarily EDM with little to no vocals https://open.spotify.com/user/nebosite/playlist/0hy2h4wf2A3JWvMzK48REE?si=KlMRgPm8QfiC6N9Z-A6jAQ
High Energy programming mix: Most songs have vocals but good for brainstorming portions. https://open.spotify.com/user/jhardinee/playlist/022CloUnijfD00ziUEXJ66?si=WCKBLFEbQmmym-0DNgFLRA
Dubstep study: Dubstep with no vocals

	if(!(Get-Command git -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {

	$gitDir = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\CustomGit"
	if(Test-Path $gitDir) { Remove-Item -Path $gitDir -Recurse -Force }
	New-Item -Path $gitDir -ItemType Directory
	$gitLatestReleaseApi = (Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing https://api.github.com/repos/git-for-windows/git/releases/latest).Content \| ConvertFrom-Json
	$mingitObject = $gitLatestReleaseApi.assets `
	\| Where-Object {$_.name -match "MinGit-[\d.]*?-64-bit.zip"} `
	\| Select-Object browser_download_url

	# Starship command prompt configuration file. Colour choice and over-use of emoji
	# is to help blend in with Ubuntu MATE default theme, Ambiant-Mate.


	# disable starship from forcing a new line to be taken. Solved the empty line
	# at start of terminal
	add_newline = false

	[line_break]
	disabled = true

	[merge]
	tool = vimdiff

	[mergetool]
	keepBackup = false

	[mergetool "vimdiff"]
	cmd = nvim -d $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED -c '$wincmd w' -c 'wincmd J'

	# Run the following command to create Jupyter-lab config file under
	# ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
	# $ jupyter-lab --generate-config
	#

	############################
	### Some custom settings ###
	############################

	# Make it accessible from localhost only

	# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
	# newer versions of the distribution.
	deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted
	# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted

	## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
	## distribution.
	deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted
	# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted

	" Background colors for active vs inactive windows
	hi ActiveWindow guibg=#17252c
	hi InactiveWindow guibg=#0D1B22

	" Call method on window enter
	augroup WindowManagement
	autocmd!
	autocmd WinEnter * call Handle_Win_Enter()
	augroup END