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Belated Snacks Picker and Explorer Updates in LazyVim For Ambitious Developers
March 15, 2025
Folke pushed a flurry of updates earlier this year to swap out the LazyVim picker and explorer experiences from third-party plugins (fzf-lua and Neo-tree)...
The New Snacks Picker
January 18, 2025
Wow! This newsletter recently earned its 100th subscriber, which means I had to bump up to buttondown.email’s paid plan. I have received enough donations,...
Updates to LazyVim For Ambitious Developers
December 25, 2024
My holiday week was spent updating LazyVim for Ambitious Developers to reflect the numerous small changes folke has pushed in the few months since I...
LazyVim 14 released
December 15, 2024
Hi everyone, I wanted to drop a quick note about LazyVim 14. It’s functionally quite similar to 14, with only a handful of new keybindings that I’m sure...
LazyVim 13
November 9, 2024
Hey all, LazyVim development has been quiet for the last little while. To be honest, that was a bit of a relief for me because the print edition of the book...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers on Google Play Books
October 2, 2024
Just a quick note for folks who don’t want to purchase the LazyVim for Ambitious Developers ebook through Payhip: Another option is now Google Play: LazyVim...
LazyVim For Ambitious Developers: Hardcover Available
September 26, 2024
It’s finally here! I’ve been expecting this in my mailbox since Monday, but it didn’t arrive until today. One of the drawbacks of living in a rural location...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: First Proof
September 11, 2024
The bulk of the past couple weeks has been waiting for mail to be delivered. This finally arrived yesterday: Hardcover! Overall, I’m extremely pleased with...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Ebook Now Available!
August 26, 2024
Hi everyone, The long-awaited LazyVim for Ambitious Developers e-book is now available! You can purchase it through Payhip here:...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 20 Released
August 22, 2024
Hi everyone, I just pushed Chapter 20 up for public consumption. It’s a really short chapter with some tips about places to find new plugins, explore other...
LazyVim For Ambitious Developers: Chapter 19 Released
August 17, 2024
Hi all, Wanted to let you know I’ve released chapter 19. It attempts (claims) to be a comprehensive guide to plugin configuration. Some of it is review, as I...
LazyVim For Ambitious Developers: Chapter 18 Released
August 9, 2024
Hi everyone, I just got Chapter 18 uploaded. It’s largely an introduction to Neo-test, a plugin for running tests from inside Neovim. I’d never used it...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 17 Released
August 4, 2024
Hey folks, I just got Chapter 17 of LazyVim for Ambitious Developers uploaded. It’s about the debugging tooling that comes with LazyVim as an Extra. To be...
LazyVim For Ambitious Developers: Chapter 15 Released
July 22, 2024
Hi everyone, I just posted Chapter 15, which is titled Source Control, although it’s mostly focused on git. It’s a fairly long chapter because LazyVim...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 14 Released
July 17, 2024
Hi everyone! I just released Chapter 14, which is a grab-bag of random tips I’ve stumbled over in many years of using Vim. As much as possible I had tried to...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 13 released
July 10, 2024
Hi everyone, Man the weeks are just flying by for me this summer. I have a few updates about the book: Chapter 13 has been released. It follows up on the...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 12 Released
July 3, 2024
Hi everyone, Sorry for getting this chapter up a little late. I slammed my right index finger in a door a few days ago and typing suddenly became “not...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 11 Released
June 24, 2024
Hi everyone, I made some changes to several published book chapters last week to reflect the fact that LazyVim now supports either Telescope or fzf.lua. For...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 10 Released
June 17, 2024
Hi everyone, I usually get these out on the weekend, but I’m a bit late for several reasons. Those reasons will also be why this message is quite long! First...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 9 released
June 9, 2024
Hi everyone, I had a PR merge into LazyVim this week to make mini.files a little more pleasant to use. You can now open files in splits directly from the...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 8 Released
June 2, 2024
Hi all, Folke (the LazyVim maintainer) released version 12 this week. For a major version number it didn’t include a ton of breaking changes, but it did swap...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 7 Released
May 26, 2024
Just a quick note to let you all know that LazyVim for Ambitious Developers Chapter 7 Objects and Operator-pending Mode is now available publicly:...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 6 Released
May 18, 2024
It’s been a very full week, both for me personally and in LazyVim land! On the personal front, my wife and I released https://www.fablehenge.com/. I promise...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 5 released
May 11, 2024
Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know that I managed to do final edits on LazyVim for Ambitious Developers, Chapter 5 (Plugin Basics). It is available...
LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Chapter 4 released
May 4, 2024
Hi all, I’m really not used to sending mass mailings, but I really appreciate the vote of confidence that you’re willing to hear from me! I’ll try to keep...