Drew Neil

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[EmberFest @EmberFest]

Understand the root causes behind flaky tests and how to manage them in @nelstrom's talk from #emberfest23! 🚀

Replay the full talk: https://t.co/QR5ekxnWTZ

[EmberFest @EmberFest]

Learn what is causing tests to be flaky and strategies to overcome the issue in @nelstrom’s talk at #emberfest23.

Full schedule here: https://t.co/FOdJgvTqyD

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

https://t.co/24thJTPeIH looks really interesting. I love that “at the speed of thought” strap line. Haven’t I seen that somewhere before?

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@JoseALobato Glad to hear it, thanks.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@_aitor @briansuda Can’t believe 10 years have already passed since we were hanging out in Reykjavik!

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@medit4tive Ah, sorry about that. Should be sorted now.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@thorstenball Glad to hear that the book helped!

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@darthdicer Merry Christmas!

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@JanVLC @dominikb1888 @vim_tricks That mapping for visual mode should be safe, because the . command doesn’t do anything in visual mode. The ‘micro/macro’ behaviour is a normal mode thing. 👌🏻

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@TeejDeVries @VimconfLive Glad I could drop in for a bit (though it’s late here). I got to hear two of the talks. Both really informative and well delivered. Great job everyone! 👏🏻

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

I'm tuning in for @VimconfLive now.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@Mairo_Rufus @VimconfLive Thanks. I'm glad to hear the book helped!

[Jerod Santo @jerodsanto]

Excited to get this shipped!

Our very special episode of The @Changelog podcast all about #Vim with an *amazing* ensemble of voices:

@b0rk! @nelstrom! @noopkat! @garybernhardt!

https://t.co/SqBKkTkORk

A few of my favorite moments from the pod 🧵

[Andreas Øverland @andreasoverland]

I can really recommend this course. A bunch of us developers at @finkoslo had an inspiring time with Drew a couple of months ago. Great fun as well. It works perfectly as an online session.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@adonaldson I did a brew install recently which spun up the fans on my machine. An hour later I checked back to find that one of my dependencies dependencies was depending upon subversion. How did we end up here?

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@andreasoverland 😂

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@andreasoverland There’s a tip in Practical Vim called “Pause with your brush off the page”, where I compare using Vim with painting.
Brush on canvas == Insert mode
Brush off canvas == Normal mode
A painter spends the majority of their time with the brush off the page.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@andreasoverland personally, I prefer to train the muscle memory so that lingering in Insert mode never happens. I dip into Insert mode, type a few characters, then escape back to Normal mode without even thinking about it.

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@andreasoverland does this do what you want? https://t.co/oRnk7xWDl5

(I haven’t tried this myself)

[Drew Neil @nelstrom]

@mseckington I’m jealous! Must have been great to hear them live.