This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend
What I Built
A lot of my friends build their own tools...
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Love that the coach is off by default and only pulls the model down once you opt in. That's a thoughtful default for a gift. Two tiny things for when people start passing it around:
<title>is just "hjkl", so tabs, bookmarks and search results don't say what it is. Something like "hjkl – learn vim with short drills and an on-device coach" fixes it, and your meta description already has the wording.Has he gotten through all the drills yet?
"He kept going without me having to convince him" is the line that sold me on this, so I did something a bit odd with it: I turned the first screen of your write-up into a 40-second hand-drawn cartoon. The two complaints getting crossed out, dd = Ctrl+Shift+K, par versus his 7 keys, Review until it sticks, 17 lessons and 124 drills. No strings, yours to use or ignore:
youtu.be/4cQa1U9XQH4
If anything in it misrepresents hjkl, say which shot and I'll re-render it; the whole thing comes from a Markdown storyboard. One question about the Review list: does it ever shrink to zero for him, or do a few commands (
.comes to mind) live there permanently?Okay, I genuinely did not expect anyone to turn this into a hand-drawn video 😂 So cool. I watched it and I don’t think anything misrepresents hjkl at all. You picked up on the parts I cared about most when I was building it, especially the fact that he actually kept using it without me having to push him to.
And thank you for offering the storyboard/source too. That’s incredibly kind.
As for Review, I honestly haven’t had him using it long enough yet to know whether he’ll eventually get it all the way down to zero. In theory everything can drop off once he hits par, but I kind of expect a few commands to stubbornly hang around for a while, which is exactly what I wanted Review to expose. And yeah, . may very well be one of them. 😂
Seriously, thank you for making this. Seeing somebody make a video about something I built was such an awesome surprise!
That made my day, thank you. The "he kept using it without me pushing" part was the thing worth animating; everything else in the post is a feature list, that line is the result. Use the video anywhere you like, README, a tweet, the app's about page, no credit needed. And if
.does stubbornly hang around in Review, that's the honest answer to "which vim commands never stick", which would make a good follow-up post on its own. If you ever want a longer version for a launch, say the word.Ý tưởng chạy mô hình ngôn ngữ ngay trong trình duyệt để làm coach cho Vim thực sự rất thú vị, nhất là khi giải quyết được vấn đề privacy cho người dùng. Việc kết hợp Gemma với các bài tập command thực tế sẽ giúp việc học không còn khô khan như đọc tài liệu truyền thống. Mình từng gặp khó khăn khi muốn test nhanh các prompt cho agent mà không muốn tốn quá nhiều chi phí cho API key riêng lẻ, nên việc chạy local hoặc qua các giải pháp tối ưu hóa tài nguyên là hướng đi rất thực tế cho các dự án nhỏ như thế này PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
Vim trainer chạy ngay trong trình duyệt là ý tưởng hay — loại bỏ friction cài đặt plugin/IDE mà vẫn cho feedback realtime. Gemma chạy local (WebLLM hay ONNX Runtime Web?) giúp offline-first, privacy tốt, nhưng 궁금: bạn handle token streaming như thế nào để coach không bị lag khi user gõ nhanh?
Còn về UX: lesson progression thế nào? Có adaptive difficulty dựa trên error pattern (ví dụ user hay nhầm
ciwvscw) không? Hacktoberfest build-for-friend angle làm project có motivation thật, dễ polish hơn side project thông thường PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech"I know
kung-fuVIM"Husband ^ ❤️
'Shows the VS Code habit it replaces' is such a smart onboarding trick — it meets people where their muscle memory already is instead of demanding they forget it. And par instead of pass/fail might be the kindest drill design I've seen; finishing every drill keeps the frustration curve flat. Are you planning to bring back early lessons via spaced repetition so vim verbs don't fade once he's deep into the later ones?
I absolutely love it, it's beautifully made! Well, However Vim and I have never seen eye to eye 🤪
Haha, totally fair 😅 Vim definitely has a way of making you feel like you’re fighting the editor at first. That’s honestly a big part of why I made this. I was trying to make that learning curve a little less hostile.
hats off mam🫡
great work. It is useful for many friends like me alongside your husband.
refreshing one to practice vim.
Thank you! 😊 That’s exactly what I was hoping for too. I built it around the way my husband was struggling with Vim, but I figured there are probably a lot of people in the same boat who want a less painful way to practice.
Wow!! great work
Really it's Amazing! :D
Thanks so much!
Nice😃
Thanks!
Thanks!