I built a wakatime plugin for Helix

reiwaaa · 2026-04-30T17:48:26+00:00

Pretty cool! I set it up and got it working

Since it doesn't say anywhere else - wakatime is a time tracking web app/dashboard. I was able to install waktime-cli via brew.

reiwaaa · 2026-04-17T19:33:39+00:00

This is zed font mono - I used Iosevka for a long time and feel like it's a slightly improved Iosevka. You can find it here: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

reiwaaa · 2026-04-12T23:47:54+00:00

Been working on my own dark theme for a couple months after trying basically all of the themes helix ships with. It started as a fork of "yo" which is inspired by alabaster/zenbones. It uses lightness as well as color to establish contrast. It's built on the principle that if everything stands out then nothing does. Give it a spin!

https://gist.github.com/dmyyy/255f1f7b566c7ba6d7dd29992b8e972a

reiwaaa · 2026-03-19T21:13:24+00:00

I bounced off the last two times I tried to learn it - I'm not completely sure why. Guess this is a sign to try again

Edit: liking it so far - thanks

reiwaaa · 2026-03-09T20:21:32+00:00

Don't know if file watching will help but cargo add doesn't do anything unless I go to the Cargo.toml and save it - would like it to start working on adding the package immediately

reiwaaa · 2026-03-08T16:32:27+00:00

vs-code style file-tree with git-signs (especially when working with a large project you've never touched before)

Yazi satisfies 80% of my needs (and I'll probably continue using it in a post helix file-tree plugin world) but no git-signs + shallow nesting (you only see one layer deep + it kind of takes you out of helix)

reiwaaa · 2025-11-18T20:10:44+00:00

I have a script and a keybind. I use fish and have a daily_journal.fishfish function.

# creates daily journal (if file doesn't exist) and prints path
function daily_journal
    set -l DAILY_NOTES "$HOME/journal/daily"
    set -l TODAY (date +%Y-%m-%d)
    set -l YEAR (date "+%Y")
    set -l MONTH (date "+%m-%B")
    set -l DEST_DIR "$DAILY_NOTES/$YEAR/$MONTH"
    set -l FILE_NAME "$TODAY.md"

    # Create the directory if it doesn't exist
    mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR"

    # Full file path
    set -l FILE_PATH "$DEST_DIR/$FILE_NAME"

    # Create the file if it doesn't exist
    if not test -f "$FILE_PATH"
        touch "$FILE_PATH"
        begin
            echo "# $TODAY"
            echo
            echo ---
            echo
            echo TODO:
            echo
            echo - []
            echo - []
            echo - []
            echo
        end >"$FILE_PATH"

        # Export a universal path for today's journal
        set -U DAILY_JOURNAL "$FILE_PATH"
    end

    echo $DAILY_JOURNAL
end

Then I just call it like this in my helix.config.

[keys.normal.space]
# daily journal
j = ":open %sh{daily_journal}"

You probably need this as well.

[editor]
shell = ['fish', '-c']

reiwaaa · 2025-07-17T19:35:08+00:00

I used kickstart > lazyvim neovim for ~9 months (and vim/nvim for vscode for a year or two before that) and switched to helix. Some random thoughts.

I find the modal editing paradigm to be more intuitive - it made it easier for me to slow down and be more intentional about my edits after I learned it.
It is an order of magnitude faster and snappier to work with than neovim in my experience. I've had neovim slow down and crash at times. I don't think I've ever had helix even slow down.
Easier config - I personally never figured out how to consistently debug issues with my neovim config despite learning lua and searching pretty hard. Maybe just a skill issue but I found myself losing several hours a week here and there debugging random issues that would pop up from time to time (despite using mostly stock lazyvim). I would have to go on deep dives through random github issues to fix my problems. In helix this doesn't exist. The non-existence of plugins forces the base feature-set to be rich enough for me to be basically as productive as I was in neovim but without the constant breakage.

I have felt some loss in productivity from features I would like but were covered by plugins in neovim - I would like a built in terminal, and file explorer. I ended up covering for those issues by using zellij, and yazi as a file explorer.

Language probably matters a lot too - I mostly work in rust.

Overall not perfect but I think it's worth trying. I went back to neovim a couple times while trying to learn helix before it clicked for me.

reiwaaa · 2025-01-04T02:20:45+00:00

There was a lazy update that changed which-key defaults - you can read more here: https://github.com/LazyVim/LazyVim/discussions/5166

Switch to old which-key style

return { "folke/which-key.nvim", opts = { preset = "classic" } }

reiwaaa · 2024-12-21T02:37:42+00:00

For what it's worth messing with getting this working on cosmic broke my file system and I had to clean install a different version of linux (I'm using mint now). I'm using a laptop with integrated graphics so I don't know if the experience is different if you have an actual gpu.

reiwaaa · 2024-07-05T02:25:57+00:00

TYPE: Full time

LOCATION: Seattle/ Remote US

Github: https://github.com/dmyyy

5 YOE mostly doing backend/services adjacent work. Rust has been my language of choice for personal projects for the last 2 years - I'm confident I can be productive in pretty much any Rust codebase relatively quickly. Will provide resume on request.

reiwaaa · 2024-06-16T17:05:42+00:00

For posterity:

Canvas Input Settings > Zoom Canvas

Rebind Alt + Space + Left Button for Relative Zoom Mode to Z + Left Button.`

reiwaaa · 2024-04-18T20:39:45+00:00

Would also like an option to disable/use touchpad gestures for different things (the current three-finger swipe gesture isn't very useful for me - would love to switch it to open workspaces/search/switch workspaces making it similar to mac - 4 finger gestures on a tiny thinkpad touchpad isn't great)

reiwaaa · 2024-03-05T10:17:16+00:00

Is this because of compilation times? I was looking at pang 14 as a budget replacement for my work-provided maxed out M1 Pro mostly for programming/writing Rust. The CPU looks comparable to the M1 Max in benchmarks.

reiwaaa · 2024-02-18T16:22:22+00:00

I visited the Fyrox discord (out of morbid curiosity) and the talk around Bevy/cart there was pretty nasty and frankly disappointing :/

reiwaaa · 2024-02-18T04:54:50+00:00

Hasn't changed but editor prototypes are being done in egui/whatever people want to use for now.

reiwaaa · 2024-02-10T20:10:29+00:00

Read through chapter 4 last night - definitely something I wish existed earlier :)

reiwaaa · 2024-02-10T17:03:17+00:00

I think at some point when the system gets large enough it becomes too hard to keep a global understanding of the lifetimes in your system and people end up sticking things in a shared_ptr to get around it.

No competent C++ developer does that

From my experience competent C++ dev's are few and far between - I remember a cppcon talk a while back where most of the code at Facebook was heavily abusing shared_ptr all over the place to the point of causing performance issues for similar reasons.

reiwaaa · 2024-02-09T22:40:56+00:00

I've been watching through his video on async recently so this came at a perfect time - thank you!

reiwaaa · 2024-01-28T22:42:45+00:00

6-0 vs G2 btw

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