I went all-in developing that editor. It had a website and forums but it wasn't something I sold, you could download it for free. Funny how even back then I tolerated almost no BS for the tools I use. I couldn't find an editor that I liked so I spent a few weeks making one.
Fast forward 20 years and while I'm not using my own code editor the spirit of building and sharing tools hasn't slowed down. If anything I build more nowadays because as I get older the more I want to use nice things. My tolerance has gotten even stricter. It's how I ended up tuning my development environment over the years in https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.
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Haha thanks.
I went all-in developing that editor. It had a website and forums but it wasn't something I sold, you could download it for free. Funny how even back then I tolerated almost no BS for the tools I use. I couldn't find an editor that I liked so I spent a few weeks making one.
Fast forward 20 years and while I'm not using my own code editor the spirit of building and sharing tools hasn't slowed down. If anything I build more nowadays because as I get older the more I want to use nice things. My tolerance has gotten even stricter. It's how I ended up tuning my development environment over the years in https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.