Neovim on Ben's Blog

2026-01-21

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:25:32 +0000

10:25 Learning English

I should study English at home rather than in the office, I think. I need to write more journals.

14:16 Vimium

Vimium is a browser extension that can make using a browser like Vim.

15:58 Safety Training

Finished the Safety Training online course, and then I could start doing the lab soon, hopefully.

16:10 About Polishing

Today I learned a very important concept – about polishing. At the stage of writing, don’t worry about the format and the grammar issues.

For every essay I wrote, I should revise and proofread it again.

EOD

I learn and practice Vim with VSCode extension all night. For me, a tool-lover, I think this is my ultimate end-of-strolling tool.

After mastering it, I think I can pay more attention to content creation.

2026-01-20

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:12:52 -0700

I had two classes today that went until 2 PM. I was extremely tired all day because I didn’t sleep well.

At lunch, I thought about eating early since I had class soon. I mentioned this to Chathuranga, and he said he wanted to eat now too. Well, that made our group too big and we couldn’t all sit together. It was pretty awkward.

2026-01-19

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:58:10 -0700

Chathuranga is back and brought us gifts - fridge magnets and jasmine tea. Very nice. We had lunch together at noon.

Our regular group meeting at noon was uneventful. Started learning about Typst and FEM, then began studying VIM. After dinner at home, continued learning VIM. This editor is incredibly difficult to use.

2026-01-18

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:33:58 -0700

Gemini gave me some great advice while I was learning Neovim. It made a very good point:

13:33 “For beginners, ‘over-intelligent’ tools are often the biggest obstacle to learning.”

Since I am using a “cleaned-up” tutorial, I shouldn’t obsess over the missing ‘X’ in the exercise. The core purpose of Lesson 1.4 is simply to learn how to use i to append missing characters. As long as I identify where a line is missing text and manually complete it, I’ve achieved the goal of the exercise.

Afternoon

I headed to the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) before sunset. The library is beautiful, though it was actually a bit crowded. I definitely plan to spend more time there in the future.

After leaving the library, I dropped by the bun shop next door. I picked up a box of buns but momentarily forgot to pay. The cashier got very angry with me, even though I had only just turned around and hadn’t even taken a single step away. I apologized to her, but I really didn’t appreciate her attitude.

I suspect that similar things must have happened to her before, which might explain why she reacted so poorly.