Building Your Mouseless Development Environment
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Building Your Mouseless Development Environment
An entire book to build a mouseless dev environment
themouseless.dev#mouseless#i3 window manager#neovim#arch linux#keyboard-driven workflow
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18 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 9 for, 6 againstDocs: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Clear, practical explanations
From 1 comment
Wow. That's a great and clear explanation. Thanks for that!
thanato0s on HN
Objections
Mouseless workflow seen as unnecessary or dogmatic
From 3 comments
"I don't want to try i3 or Vim. What's the point using less of the mouse? Such a waste of time!" That was me, 6 years ago. My colleagues were pushing me to try the tools they…
thanato0s on HNGenerally shortcuts are far more efficient - navigating via vim movements are incredibly fast for proficient users. Same holds true if you use excel, shortcut gurus generally far…
shmoogy on HNI see a problem here: I'm not obsessing not using the mouse. There are some very loud people out there who are dogmatic anti-mouse. As a result, everybody speaking about a…
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Arch Linux seen as unstable
From 1 comment
I'm using Arch for 6 years now, I never saw it crashing. It's the most stable system I've ever seen. To me, "arch is unstable" is more an urban legend than anything else; the…
thanato0s on HN
Requests
Print copy of the book
From 2 comments
You're already the second person asking me for a print copy. I'm willing to look at it if more people are interested.
thanato0s on HNTo me you're not a bad person :D thanks a lot for buying it! Maybe you should have looked a bit at the sample and the video before though, I don't want to deceive anybody. There…
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Questions
How to use Stack Overflow without a mouse
From 1 comment
How are you meant to use Stack Overflow?
richardpetersen on HN
Alternatives named
qutebrowser
From 2 comments
You should try to use qutebrowser. I quickly speak about mouseless ways to browse the internet in the book, I think qutebrowser is the best solution so far.
thanato0s on HNYou should try qutebrowser :)
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Vimium
From 1 comment
Vimium on Chrome
crucialfelix on HN
Emacs
From 1 comment
Thanks for your interest and your kind words! I tried emacs (I like to try many stuff :D) but it felt a bit too much "program which does everything". I'm a big fan of small…
thanato0s on HN
Ubuntu
From 1 comment
I think that's true. It's always good to explore new ways, especially the ones you don't agree with. Even if you still disagree at the end, I'm sure you'll learn something. I…
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