Tom MacWright tmcw

Though I love vim, it has one pretty big flaw: it doesn't know JavaScript. There are systems that know JavaScript pretty well, like all of Visual Studio Code’s code intelligence features. I've tried all of them: languageserver, tern, typescript server… and they've all broken my heart. And then I went back to the opposite extreme: no autocomplete, no fancy stuff, not even the supertab plugin. Now I've settled in the middle, and am loving mediocre vim. The combination is:

ctags

Ctags is a beautifully ugly system, with extreme performance and simplicity. Just enough intelligence to pluck out the exports and declarations in your files to make jump to definition work mostly. It's basically a set of regular expressions that tries to find keywords and then puts them in a file that your editor can use as an index.

brew install ctags-exuberant

It's bad in the middle

Trigger warning: this post talks about money. Skip it if you don’t want to read about money. For real: compensation, money – the whole thing stresses me out. I wrote it because I strongly suspect something’s going on, and that this suspicion has been confirmed a few times, and I think it’s worthwhile to sketch it all out. I take care not to name any numbers here: though you can make very little money in startups and many people manage to, a lot of people also make a lot of money, and the absurdity of the amounts never wears off, ever, and the jealousy will eat you. Note also that I’m not an accountant or a lawyer and this post has nothing to do with my current or previous employers.

Diagnosis:

Early stage startups give you equity for cheap, freedom
Public tech companies give you cash, liquid equity, stability
Middle stage startups are chaotic, less equity and at a worse price, and not as much cash as late-stage startups

If you version images like person-1.jpg person-2.jpg, this will let you swap an img element for a Timg component, and clicking on the image cycles through previous versions.

	(-------------List output---------- )
	0.187042 0.645075
	0.193207 0.648417
	0.199533 0.651622
	0.206013 0.654685
	0.212638 0.657603
	0.219399 0.660371
	0.226287 0.662985
	0.233294 0.665442
	0.24041 0.667738

	(-------------List output---------- )
	-0.00122166 -0.00773919
	0.0583786 0.00420576
	0.080896 0.00804865
	0.0936988 0.0130573
	0.100379 0.0424473
	0.108123 0.0565801
	0.101391 0.0665227
	0.0921094 0.0633638
	0.102654 0.084326

	(-------------Off output---------- )
	OFF 110 0 64
	-0.00189951 0.0009937
	0.0934656 0.403658
	0.0962753 0.323667
	0.0983542 0.196518
	0.0986576 0.358754
	0.0992546 0.456116
	0.100818 0.00124446
	0.104639 0.494215

	#!/bin/zsh

	ipfs daemon &
	PID1=$!

	echo "Jekyll building…"
	bundle exec jekyll build

	cd _site
	make-relative https://macwright.org/

	#!/bin/zsh

	ipfs daemon &
	PID1=$!

	echo "Jekyll building…"
	bundle exec jekyll build

	cd _site
	make-relative https://macwright.org/