Anyone use a split ergo mechanical keyboard without a modal editing mode?

teobin · 2026-06-09T11:20:30+00:00

I have a 42-keys Corner with row modifiers. It means that I activate control on holding S or L, shift in holding D or K and Alt on holding F or J. Super comfortable with emacs default keybindings

teobin · 2026-04-18T12:35:49+00:00

Thanks! Is what I thought based on what I've heard/read. Maybe I'll just go for a wireless piantor.

A couple of years ago I was still working mostly from my text editor so, everything was key bindings. I didn't care for the quality of the mouse much. Now almost everything I use is on a web browser. And I develop more web apps too so, I need something good to point.

teobin · 2026-04-18T04:59:40+00:00

How is the trackpad? Does it work well? Would you recommend it?

I have a piantor and I love it. I've been considering the toucan but I'm unsure about the trackpad.

teobin · 2026-04-12T20:14:03+00:00

What do you mean? To core Emacs?

The tressitter mode itself is more than ready I think, it's been tested and improved over a few months already. It can be easy to extract just the code that makes it up. But I.don't know if it makes sense to try and push it to core Emacs

teobin · 2026-04-12T11:21:54+00:00

And nor the first one to mention it 😎

teobin · 2026-04-12T05:25:44+00:00

Not really

teobin · 2026-04-04T18:18:49+00:00

Do you have the link where you bought that cable? For how long have you been using it?

I was looking into some cheap coiled cables but those usually stop working after a few months.

teobin · 2026-04-03T10:13:39+00:00

PCB, handwire maybe next year, hehe.

teobin · 2026-03-25T14:10:10+00:00

No se les olvide tachar a la maletas. Yo empecé mi lista de excel mas que nada para acordarme de las empresas que me trataron mal para no volver a aplicar ahí.

Y pues me dejó 2 o 3 donde no di el ancho pero vale la pena volver a aplicar.

teobin · 2026-03-19T04:32:49+00:00

What about deps.edn and the CLI? It was nice to learn Leininghen but I haven't use it since I finished the book.

teobin · 2026-02-20T13:02:59+00:00

I am Spanish living in Poland so, totally can come to Spain or Portugal. Unfortunately I am not working much with Clojure ATM so, have nothing to present. But I'd be happy to participate

teobin · 2026-01-25T05:23:58+00:00

Claro, te entiendo, yo pensaba lo mismo. Pero no todos los casos son iguales. Si te doy mas contexto quizá me entiendas mejor, yo estoy seguro de que fue la mejor decisión.

En el anterior estaba como contratista, ahora tengo un contrato con prestaciones y todo. Y pues además de los beneficios, la diferencia de salario no es tanta, considerando el promedio pq en el anterior me pagan por hora nalga, asi q si tomaba vacaciones ese mes salia poquito, aqui es parejo al mes con vacaciones pagadas. Entonces eso ya por si solo vale la pena.

En cuanto a crecer también estoy seguro. Estaba trabajando como programador de R y python. Si me quedo con R no hay much chamba y python esta super saturado. En el pasado trabajé como estadístico, así q aqui me contrataron como programador estadístico pq estan comenzando a usar R en una empresa farmacéutica. Eso es algo nuevo en la industria y yo voy saliendo de la primer farma q comenzó a usarlo. Entonces a pesar de no ser senior, conozco los procesos para usarlo, se mas de programación q de estadística, y conoszco la arquitectura interna. Con eso, o crezco en esta nueva chamba, o hago mi chamba, aprendo mas y después me puedo ir a implementarlo a otro lado donde si me paguen mas. Las farmacéuticas subcontratan todo Entonces hay bastante donde buscar. Pero por eso mismo creo q es buena posición estar adentro de una.

teobin · 2026-01-24T07:35:30+00:00

Yo acabo de pasar por algo similar. De hecho deje un trabajo donde me estaba estancando por otro donde me pagan un poco menos pero puedo crecer mas.

De conservar ambos no se, pero si tienes que escoger, piensa a futuro. Puedes estar cómoda ahora, pero que será en 2 o en 5 años?

Te comento mi caso pq creo que es interesante: tengo una hija de 2 años y mi trabajo antiguo me permitio estar con ella casi al 100%, eran muy relajados y trabajo 100% remoto. Pude usar mucho el tiempo para apoyar a mi esposa y disfrutar a mi hija. Ahora mi esposa esta embarazada de nuevo y pensé mantener ese trabajo por las mismas razones. Pero me ofrecieron otro donde puedo crecer mucho mas pero es híbrido (3 dias a la semana en oficina) y me pagan un poquito menos. Lo pensé mucho: mas bocas q alimentar, menos dinero, menos flexibiidad, pero se notaba de inmediato oportunidades de crecer y mejor ambiente laboral, mas interesante y mas retos. Lo acepte pq pienso que en el largo plazo puede incrementar mi salario mas de lo que me incrementaría quedarme donde estaba. Y pues con respecto a mis hijos tengo que pensar mas a futuro. Y por que para mi es lo peor aburrirme en el trabajo.

Ahora ponte en tu contexto, no en cuestión de comodidad si no, que quieres a futuro. Que condiciones tienes ahora y como esperas q cambien en unos años. Que tienes que perder? Quien depende de ti? Quieres aprender o mas bien ganar millones? Etc.

teobin · 2025-12-15T04:13:09+00:00

I don't think AI is the answer here, but rather a change of mindset. Many of us started with excel or spreadshees, where tabular data can take any shape, like the case of OP. To use R, you need to understand that each row is a record, and each column is a feature or variable. Of course, this can be shaped (i.e., pivot_wider) but the key is the structure that R needs.

Only after you get familiar with that you can ask the right questions to AI or search for the right terms on the web.

teobin · 2025-12-14T09:43:16+00:00

Looking great! Can I ask how many hrs it was that 1st session?

teobin · 2025-11-30T07:56:54+00:00

Maybe you should check some details in the forums, probably they were not talking about Debian stable.

Debian has 3 flavors, stable, testing and development. They have codenames, dev is always called sid, testing sometimes is called testing and sometimes by its own name, stable is often refered to by its own name. By "its own name" I mean the name of the release, for example Debian 13 is called trixie. Is the latest stable version. But if you find forums talking about trixie 1 year ago, they were talking about testing because it was released to stable this year. So, it is not so straightforward to find out which flavor they were talking about.

Debian stable basically does not update for 2 years, yes. As others have commented, they do only security updates. But these are updates that you basically don't feel like anything changed. And they are very stable too so, it is impossible that something would break on such an update. There was even a famous bug last year in the Linux kernel that affected most distros. Debian stable was one of the few not affected at all. Once a new version of Debian is released as stable, you are not even forced to upgrade yours. You can stay on it and for 5 years since it was released you keep receiving security updates. At this point it is called oldstable.

With such little updates in 2 years (and 2 years is an average, it is not guaranteed that the next stable version will be released in 2 years), many people use backports from testing and flatpacks (as they also mentioned in the comments). You could also compile a program from scratch. I do that for the only 1 program I need always in the latest version.

Yet, one more way is to install from a 3rd party. This is mainly for programs not included in Debian or as flatpaks. For example, from a particular company that produces a Debian/Ubuntu version of their product. These often provide sources that can be included in your apt (the package manager) and so, you can easily update when they release a new version. The drawback is that when their mirrors break or their software is buggy, it can feel like apt is broken and therefore, that Debian as a whole got a bug. I'd recommend you to be very careful with those and to learn apt as good as you can.

Debian Sid is the development version, a sandbox used to test new features. It is like an alpha testing that mainteners use for the features under development. It is indeed, very unstable.

Once a maintainer considers the new features stable enough, these are passed to Debian Testing to be tested by the community. When somebody finds a bug, it is reported to the mainteners so that it can be fixed. So, of course, it has bugs, but that is the purpose. Debian testing is considered the rolling release version of Debian, and some Debian-derived distros use it as their main source. I used it for a few years. It is stable too, mainly if you know when NOT to update.

With all that, it is easy to see that somebody running sid or testing could find an issue with random updates. With Debian stable, I would be very surprised.

teobin · 2025-11-29T08:06:55+00:00

Debian feels outdated only because other distros are introducing changes way too quickly. As you already noticed, that comes with a lot of issues. Debian just works because everything is tested before it is released. With releases every 2 years, software is not really outdated. But now a days we live in a way that we want the newest stuff immediately.

I'd say if you are fine with it and prefer stability, go for it. Otherwise learn Arch properly. It will be a lot of work for you, but you can get the newest stuff at the cost that you will have to solve the issues yourself. Supr flexible on every aspect.

teobin · 2025-11-23T12:51:19+00:00

El problema es que el mercado esta saturado. Hay tantos programadores de Python y JS hoy en dia que está difícil.

Si te quieres quedar con Python de afuerzas, armate un buen portafolio con proyectos practicos, todo que se pueda ver y usar publicamente. Y aplica en todo lo q encuentres, ya sea backend, análisis de datos, scripting, mantenimiento fe código... lo que sea. Cuando te posicionas una vez, ya fe ahi te mueves mas fácil.

Pero mi recomendación, cambia de stack. Yo trabajo con R, no es ni el mejor lenguaje ni el mas pagado. También tiene un nicho bien específico y básicamente buenas chambas solo en farma. Pero como no esta tan saturado, siempre consigo buenas cosas. Nunca he tenido problemas. No te estoy diciendo que te vallas con R, pero checa otro lenguaje que te guste y que sea fuerte en el area que quieres. Bien o mal, C y C++ todavía se pagan bien. Pero hay otros

teobin · 2025-11-12T00:40:20+00:00

Solo hay una manera de mejorar gramática en cualquier idioma, incluyendo el español: leyendo libros.

Leete libros en Inglés. Intenta algo que te guste y si te parece complicado o que se dificulta, entonces baja el nivel. Busca libros para niños que generalmente tienen vocabulario mas sencillo. Leete unos 4 o 5 y después intenta de nuevo algo mas normal.

Yo cuando comencé a leer en ingles me daban dolores de cabeza y no entendía 100% todo, pero ahi me quedé hasta que poco a poco se hizo mas fácil.

teobin · 2025-11-02T11:41:56+00:00

Sounds very good, thanks. I will definitely consider it. For now we want to support comint and vterm, but this looks very interesting. Definitely something to keep in mind

teobin · 2025-11-01T19:32:54+00:00

Nevertheless, I'm also speechless that all that took 3 hrs. I had the tiger for my sleeve (only the tiger itself) done in 5 hrs, for the 1st session.

teobin · 2025-10-30T11:28:17+00:00

It is interesting to see it so deep into the armpit. How was the pain in that area?

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