LazyVim for Ambitious Developers Now Available

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It’s been a while since I published the last chapter of LazyVim for Ambitious Developers on the website, but I was waiting for the print edition to be available to share it widely. And that required waiting (twice) for proofs to be mailed to me. But it’s finally here! For a direct link to purchase the print edition, click here. I’m proud of the book contents. I’m pretty confident that even seasoned Vim power users would pick up one or two tricks they didn’t already know.

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LazyVim for Ambitious Developers

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I’m working on a new book! This one will be published online with plenty of begging for support on my Patreon. If there is sufficient interest, I’m planning physical and ebook editions later this year. LazyVim for Ambitious developers is a book for the modal-editor-curious out there. Vim and Neovim have a reputation for being hard to learn and configure. LazyVim really negates that reputation, but its documentation still assumes that you have a lot of prior knowledge with Vim and Neovim.

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Differences Between Writing Fiction and Nonfiction

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I’m about halfway into writing my first novel. Though I have plenty of writing experience, this is my first real attempt at fiction. I’ve been surprised at the difficulty! Some of my skills transfer over; I still know the basic structure of the English language and I put commas in the right places more often than not, for example. But many other things are much different. The hardest change I’ve had to make is the order I present information.

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Announcing: Python 3 Object-oriented Programming, 3rd Edition

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Python 3 Object-oriented Programming 3rd Edition My publisher unveiled the third edition of Python 3 Object-oriented Programming today! This has been the culmination of several months of work. Editing and updating the second edition was a pleasure. It was gratifying to discover that the content has aged well. This was not the case with the first edition; I did extensive restructuring and rewriting before I was satisfied with the second.

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Hacking Happier

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Back in 2012, I wrote a book called Hacking Happy. It was my first self-published work, and I was actually surprised by how well it did without a publisher or marketing behind it. I had plenty of positive feedback including more than one hopefully exaggerated, “This book saved my life.” Most of the feedback was a bit more sedate, but I received a lot of private messages thanking me for writing it.

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Dusty Phillips

Canadian author and software developer.

Author and software developer

New Brunswick, Canada