I really like how you've decided to organise your reading list, too. It's very minimalistic whilst still having just enough careful formatting to be very readable. I've found that balance can seem sort of difficult to achieve sometimes. Took a deeper look through your links page, also; there are some great resources in there. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much! I appreciate the praise on all the aspects you mentioned. It really means a lot. I haven't taken a look at your site in some time, I need to do that again. That is awesome that you worked as a wilderness survival guide!

I love neovim I write my neocities stuff on it.

Thanks guys! Fedora is a solid distro. I used to use the Fedora xfce spin for a while myself. The annoying stuff I remember off the top my head are the package manager, which was slow sometimes (I heard they fixed it recently), and Fedora pushing SElinux on me even though I don't care about it. Other than that, I generally liked it. It strikes a good balance between being stable without its packages being outdated

As for configuring my neovim. I use an init.lua with a bunch of custom stuff, a few plugins I wrote for myself, as well as a handful of thrid party ones. It's a little messy because it reflects quirks and personal usage patterns.

Configuration isn't that important if you're new to vi/vim/nvim because you'll mostly focus on learning the editor itself. Make sure you go through :Tutor to get started and then checkout the :help pages which are surprisingly helpful. Also, neovim has reasonable defaults for the most part.

If you're comfing from vim, then :help vim-differences will tell you what to expect. You can also keep using your existing .vimrc if you have one.

Do you find Arch reliable as a daily driver? I like the idea of only installing what I truly need without any unnecessary bloat, but I guess I still have a couple of reservations. Do you have any specific pros/cons that stand out to you from using it?

I'm new to vim, so I suppose I'll just focus on familiarising myself with the editor itself for now. I have read the defaults are pretty sane. Thanks for the resource recommendations. :]

>'I imagine you can already see how neat Neovim can be.' Confident, aren't they? This interactive tutorial is pretty awesome.

Arch is mostly reliable, but it has occasional hiccups. Every once in a blue moon, updates require manual intervention with the instructions given in https://archlinux.org/news/. A few years ago, an upgrade broke wifi and needed the user to manually fix it up. Guess who decided to upgrade before their online class? :)

my personal experience has been mostly positive, but it does act funny sometimes. For example, Last year a minor kernel update introduced a bug that caused the kernel to panic specifically when plugged into an HDMI. It seemed as if the bug only affected my combination of hardware since no one else complained. After a bit of troubleshooting, I gave up and downgraded back to an older kernel, hoping they'll fix it later

Nevertheless, I still like Arch. I like it because other distros keep annoying me in different ways. For example: - Debian has ancient packages (by design) - Ubuntu pushes their stupid slow snaps (leave me alone) - Fedora begs me to use SELinux (I won't use it)

- Arch avoids patching packages, unlike other distros. For example, Fedora adds a bunch of dumb bookmarks to firefox. I didn't ask for that; Leave my firefox alone!!! Debian used to rename firefox to "icecat" for some political reason I don't care about. I don't want an icecat. Give me firefox!!! - Arch makes you build a minimal system that you understand. I find that this makes troubleshooting more straight forward

But I'm also not crazy about Arch. I just happen to use it, but I can probably live happily with something else. If I wasn't using Arch I'll be using Fedora, I think.

Glad you're enjoying (neo)vim :)

neovim and minimal distros are great. I get everyone has different experiences but I daily drove Arch for about a year before switching to Void which I have probably been on for 4-5 years? I have not had any significant problems myself (maybe near the beginning I did). I hope that you have a similar experience :)

I went to see it in the theatre in Belfast (Lewis and I's shared homeland!) whenever I was still a teenager, and I think I was the only person in that sparsely populated theatre under the age of 60. t~t

Wow, I didn't know Lewis was that popular. I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

Also, the amount of sewing advice websites using AI images is driving me insane.

For embroidery I learned through embroidery kits. They normally come with a pattern & explanation of all of the stitches you need to know.

Where do you purchase your kits from? :]

Seconding the embroidery kits advice; they usually have very good and self-sufficient explanations on the different techniques used.

Also, do you guys have images anywhere of some of the work you've done? I'd love to see!

Try Annies, the publishes of Just Cross Stitch magazine, Gathered (they publish Love Embroidery and World of Cross Stitching), and Cross Stitcher Magazine. You might find other magazines that are around, but I don't get them on a regular basis. One of the best kits I've ever come across for silk shading is done by Blue Bird Embroidery (they do the fox which I have on my crafting site.) There are some good books from

David and Charles books.

I'm glad you were able to find some meaning in them. :]

Thank you! I really like the design of your site too. Our views on minimalism are very similar, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees minimalism as more than just a "style preference". In my experience; minimalism significantly helped with focusing on the actual content by reducing the cognitive load.

Maybe I should write about minimalism, too. It feels like I can talk about this for hours lol

It's a great topic. (I clearly have zero bias.)