Internet gets wind that author of the markview.nvim plugin is student from Bangladesh who wrote it entirely on a phone, now everybody is trying to get them a laptop. (Links in post body)
Internet gets wind that author of the markview.nvim plugin is student from Bangladesh who wrote it entirely on a phone, now everybody is trying to get them a laptop. (Links in post body)
Original Github issue where a user noticed it being written on a phone
(Screenshot in this post)
User posts a screenshot of conversation on r/neovim
(Plugin author replies as u/Exciting_Majesty2005)
Github issue trying to coordinate a GoFundMe or similar
Reddit post gets linked on Hacker News
Edit:
Small update, things in issue 218 have progressed to the point that donations are now accepted by US 501(c)(3) nonprofit Hackclub:
Ledger for donations so far
($1033 at time of writing)
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Granted, I am not a software engineer, but in my personal experience I find simply using my smart phone to be convenient enough these days that transitioning into a different paradigm to accomplish a task almost always feels more inconvenient. Even when I want to or need to do a little bit of programming.
I guess I’m kind of wondering if anybody actually asked him why he doesn’t use a laptop, because it sort of seems like people are assuming that because he’s from Bangladesh, it must be because he can’t afford one and I think that’s extremely presumptuous and potentially hurtful.
Interesting! I wonder if it's an age thing or just personality or what. I feel the exact opposite, having to do anything outside the few routine things for which I use my phone feels horrible. Like there's this noticeable "blocked" or "constrained" feeling in my head, often before I even start, like I'm pre-annoyed.
Then again I feel limited even by a laptop when really working on a project, so maybe I just have some baked-in preference for "interface sprawl", maybe you'd call it.
It's the keyboard that gets me. Symbols are in weird places on most software keyboards, and the lack of physical feedback really destroys my typing accuracy. My fat fingers can't type the correct keys it seems, so I rely heavily on autocorrect, which doesn't translate well to code. It's simply tedious to write more than a couple of sentences.
it baffles me that no one has come up with a better way of inputting text on phones yet, you can literally just write new code to do it!!! but no everyone's just making yet another basically identical keyboard or they make neat concepts like thumbkey that don't actually make any ergonomical sense at all..
hell i feel like you could get pretty close to ideal with just a custom keyboard layout that applies the concept of colemak to two thumbs rather than 10 fingers: put the commonly used letters where the thumbs naturally rest and put least used characters where it's awkward to reach, and secondarily place letters such that you're alternating as much as possible.