Making ASCII art in Vim

Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"

Vim sắp cập nhật cơ chế deferred dirty redraw cho backend GTK3 Wayland, giúp tăng tốc độ cuộn, mượt hơn và giảm CPU đáng kể bằng cách tối ưu cách xếp hàng redraw trong thao tác nhập phím. Nhà phát triển gọi đây là cột mốc quan trọng, trong khi chờ merge thì hỗ trợ GTK4 vẫn đang hoàn thiện.

Lập trình viên sử dụng Vim trên Wayland GTK3 sẽ tìm hiểu cách cải thiện này để trải nghiệm văn phòng tự động hóa nhanh hơn, ít tốn CPU và tránh hiện tượng "lag" khi scroll hoặc nhập văn bản liên tục.

Writing inside the terminal sounds absurd until you realize how much faster you actually work

Viết trực tiếp trong terminal nghe có vẻ phi lý nhưng lại giúp tăng tốc độ làm việc đáng kể.

Một lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để khám phá cách viết code trực tiếp trong terminal có thể tiết kiệm thời gian và giảm thiểu các lỗi do chuyển đổi giữa các môi trường khác nhau.

Good Tools Are Invisible

Good tools should be invisible — they disappear into the background and let you focus on the work. A common anti-pattern among developers is reframing a tool's shortcomings as fun puzzles to solve, which conflates the feeling of cleverness with actual productivity. Using vim's macro system vs. multiple cursors as a case study, the author argues that tribal identity around tools (the 'hacker vibe') causes people to celebrate flaws rather than acknowledge them. The same logic applies to TUI vs. GUI debates and Linux desktop adoption: accidental complexity is mistaken for depth, and maximal configurability is often just a designer refusing to make decisions. Good defaults are a toolmaker's responsibility — they respect the user's time. A steep learning curve is a cost, not a virtue, and sunk-cost reasoning dressed up as merit is just the puzzle game again. The real test of a tool is whether you stop noticing it.

How do you use Vim in the era of AI?

A discussion thread exploring how Vim and Neovim users are adapting their workflows in the age of AI coding tools. Comments highlight that Neovim remains relevant through plugins, agent integrations in terminal buffers, and unique harnesses like Sidekick, while preserving the composability and flexibility that define the Vim experience.

Interview: Drew DeVault on an AI-free version of Vim

Drew DeVault, prolific free software developer, discusses his fork of Vim called 'Vim Classic' — a version maintained without any LLM-assisted code. In an interview, he outlines his reasons for rejecting generative AI: practical concerns like copyright provenance and deskilling, philosophical objections about subverting software craftsmanship, and strong ethical/political arguments covering environmental damage, exploitation of poorer communities, military applications, and AI's role in enabling authoritarianism. He expresses despair at the tech industry's widespread AI adoption but finds motivation in building like-minded communities and continuing to create human-crafted software.