Chris DeLuca

Been playing donkey Kong country tropical freeze and am so proud I’ve beaten to the second world.

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I have a box full of old smoke bombs. What creative thing can I do with them?

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Quick tip on how to use Neovim as your $MANPAGER. https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/use-neovim-as-your-man-pager/

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Use Neovim as your man pager

You may know that you can open man pages in a Neovim buffer with :Man. However, you can also configure your shell to open manual pages in a Neovim buffer when called from the command line.

First, if …

It's Where's Waldo, but for my cats.

Photo of a brightly lit office, with a black and white cat in the background sitting next to a stain glass window

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I wrote a base #css stylesheet for novels. https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/base-css-to-style-a-novel/

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Base CSS to Style a Novel

I’m working on a short novel, which got me thinking about typesetting (naturally). There’s as many ways to style a book as there are a webpage [citation needed], but there’s rules …

I wrote a guide on building your own #neovim fzy search in #lua https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/diy-neovim-fzy-search/

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DIY Neovim fzy search

There are plenty of fuzzy search solutions for Neovim, most notably Telescope, but sometimes you just want something fast and simple.

Enter fzy, a fast command line program with a slick search …

Hand Drawn SVGs

I’ve been trying to find a good workflow for drawing vector artwork that has the spontaneity and roughness of hand drawn images.

Finished reading: The Road to React by Robin Wieruch. Took me over eight months. It was only meh.

I’m reading a Murakami story collection in an art gallery. Someone stops, mentions they read it, too. They move on, then come back. I didn’t get the one with the ghost. I try to relate, but confuse it with a different story. Maybe you haven’t read that one yet. Maybe I haven’t. It’s hard to hear through the masks. I say I have been letting the stories wash over me, feeling dumb. They are eager to leave. It all feels like a Murakami story.

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Finished reading: Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava.

Read the short story The Case for and Against Love Potions by Imbolo Mbue.

Finished reading: Heroes by Stephen Fry. Pure joy.

Started reading: Heroes by Stephen Fry.

Finished reading: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen. It took me around six months.

Finished reading: Letters From an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Took me over a month.

Finished reading: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost. Read it in 27 days.

Started reading: The Road to React by Robin Wieruch.

Double Brett

I entered a erotica fiction contest for the popular comedy podcast Double Threat, and I was lucky enough to have my submission given a superlative on the show. What follows is that submission. Content …

Started reading: Letters From an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Started reading: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost.