DEV Community: Lewis Flude

Handcrafted: a beautiful dark theme for Nova and VS Code

Lewis Flude — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:13:06 +0000

Link: https://hand.engineering/handcrafted/

I am proud to announce the release of Handcrafted! A theme for Panic's new code editor Nova and Microsoft's VS Code.

I developed this theme using the CIELAB colour space, which means as colours shift in hue they maintain a relative brightness. The relationship between colours creates a sense of contrast and balance that is ideal for long stretches of programming.

Download Handcrafted for Nova: nova://extension/?id=handengineering.Handcrafted&name=Handcrafted (paste into your omnibar of choice)
Download Handcrafted for VS Code: Download

A simple dotfiles utility you can use to bootstrap a new dev environment

Lewis Flude — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:02:44 +0000

Get the dotfiles here: https://github.com/lewisflude/.dotfiles

Recently, I consolidated and simplified my config files for zsh, vim and tmux and created a simple shell script to symlink them to the home directory. Please feel free to fork, tweak and use yourself!

Get started by pulling down this repo to your home directory, cd in and run ./bootstrap.sh to begin the bootstrapping process.

This will install:

Brew
Zsh
Tmux
Nvm + latest version of node
Alacritty (ultra-fast terminal emulator)

After those are installed symlinks will be added for configs for zsh, vim, tmux and alacritty. You can edit these to your preferences, and they should automatically work!

Any feedback would also be massively appreciated!

Dealing with anxiety, absent-mindedness, ineffectiveness as a developer

Lewis Flude — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:40:40 +0000

I'm a developer and I need some help with being the best I can be mentally, but I'm not sure where to get it.

By "mentally" what I mean is I feel anxious, absent minded or otherwise less effective than I feel like I can be (and have been in the past).

I'm generally a happy person, confident in my technical abilities but I feel really held back by my mental state sometimes. It's so hard to talk about mental health, because so much of it is qualitative and everyone's experience is different.

I'm not sure where to find help. Ideas I've had are going into therapy or finding some sort of mentor/sounding board. I'm looking for suggestions, because I thought there must be people out there in the community who have had similar experiences.

If anyone out there has any thoughts/recommendations/advice then I'd really appreciate it!