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| author | Melody Horn <melody@boringcactus.com> | 2018-06-17 16:49:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Melody Horn <melody@boringcactus.com> | 2018-06-17 16:49:49 -0500 |
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diff --git a/_layouts/default.html b/_layouts/default.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8d8e3f --- /dev/null +++ b/_layouts/default.html @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> +<meta charset="utf-8" /> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> +<title>{{ page.title }} | boringcactus</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" href="/site.css"> +</head> +<body> +<header> +{% if page.url != "/" %} +<p>(brought to you by <a href="/">boringcactus</a>)</p> +{% endif %} +</header> +<main> +{{ content }} +</main> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/_posts/2018-06-17-windows-vim-python.md b/_posts/2018-06-17-windows-vim-python.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7eeb83f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-06-17-windows-vim-python.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: "Windows, Vim, and Python: An Unholy Trinity of Pain" +--- + +# {{ page.title }} + +Last summer I figured I'd learn Vim. That did not go well. + +I started by stealing somebody's `.vimrc`, as is natural. +In this case the person from whomst I lifted my `.vimrc` was a Python dev, and I was working in Python at the time, so that was a reasonable choice. +But once I opened an actual Python file I got an error message that Vim couldn't find Python. + +I did some research and it turned out that even though I'd grabbed the latest version of Vim, it was looking for Python 3.5 and I had Python 3.6, which had been out for a while by then. +So I uninstalled Python 3.6 and installed Python 3.5 and started getting a different error message. + +A bit more research revealed that my Python was 64-bit but my Vim was 32-bit. +Apparently Vim didn't provide official 64-bit Windows builds at that time, so for 64-bit Vim on Windows they just linked to a handful of third party distributions. +I went ahead and uninstalled my 32-bit Vim so I could install 64-bit Vim, and then everything worked fine. +(Except for all the minor Vim papercuts that eventually led me to write [my own Nano clone](https://github.com/mathphreak/mfte) instead.) + +To get Vim and Python to play nice with each other, I had to reinstall both of them. + +And that's basically what developing on Windows is like in a nutshell. + +But it doesn't have to be this way. +If more people treated Windows as a first class platform, the tools to develop on Windows wouldn't be so frustrating to use, and then more people would treat Windows as a first class platform. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 78b901a..0000000 --- a/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> -<meta charset="utf-8" /> -<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> -<title>boringcactus</title> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="site.css"> -</head> -<body> -<main> -<h1>boringcactus (Melody Horn)</h1> -<p> - i'm a programmer and a trans woman. - i've done some cool shit but it's under my deadname and i don't know how much of it is any good so i'm not talking about it here right now. -</p> -<p> - i mostly exist on <a href="https://twitter.com/boring_cactus">twitter</a> retweeting good content and occasionally tweeting bad content. -</p> -</main> -</body> -</html> diff --git a/index.md b/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3f8643 --- /dev/null +++ b/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +layout: default +--- + +# boringcactus (Melody Horn) + +i'm a programmer and a trans woman. +i've done some cool shit but it's under my deadname and i don't know how much of it is any good so i'm not talking about it here right now. + +i mostly exist on [twitter](https://twitter.com/boring_cactus) retweeting good content and occasionally tweeting bad content. + +every once in a very great while i write things here: + +{% for post in site.posts %} +- [{{ post.title }} ({{ post.date | date_to_string }})]({{ post.url }}) +{% endfor %} |