Omar speaks in the third person

I’ve decided to set up Neovim and try it out as my IDE for a bit. It’s not that I hate my current setup or anything like that, I’ve been using vscodium as a vscode replacement for a few months now and it’s worked well enough with the extensions I like to use and all that; I’ve just been thinking about experimenting with Neovim for a bit and I’m finally giving in to the obsession....

These posts are turning out to be very “pet forward.” That’s what I want to write about right now though, so 🤷 This is Max. Max lived to the age of 16, and 10 of his years were spent with me. A friend of mine adopted Max from the Humane Society when he was looking for cats on their website and he fell in love with this 5 year old, grey haired gentle giant....

I live with a dog named Gobi. She’s a delightfully energetic and affectionate miniature schnauzer. As I write this she’s lazing peacefully on the couch, flanked by me and Geetha. The three of us are watching the Strade Bianche. The season has begun (for us), Tadej Pogačar is the favourite of course and we’re itching to see where he starts his attack this time. Back to Gobi. She’s not really interested in the race, at least I don’t think she is....

This website has been through so much. Once upon a time it was all hand coded HTML, CSS, and JS. As I built that out, I essentially built out my own little framework to get things done effectively. That was fun but also pretty inefficient (and tedious) after a while. Then it became an over-engineered Next/React SSR thing because I kind of just wanted to try out the hot new stack....