Programming

I lied to you That’s not my first test run, I’ve installe neovim in 2024 and got discouraged by the setup and by the fact that the basic movements (even hjkl) were completely foreign to my hands (addin 2 new layers of stuff on top of the most basic thing ever, typing, seemed somewhat useless and pretty discouraging since I could feel the friction between toughts and my hands executing actions). Then I started digging on ergo/split keyboards and typing hand placement and got deep into that rabbit hole. ...

That’s true You’re probably a programmer, or some kind of tech enthusiast and since 2016 when android introduced dark mode to the world you were hooked. Or if you’re younger you probably got bullied into dark mode by your edgy cool friend that said that light mode is for boomers. Well either way, I was all of those above for some time, but the need of working of computer for 8+ hours a day (both for uni, work and personal projects). ...

The problem Most of the shortcuts made in vim are actually made for the English language. And transferring them to a foreign keyboard makes them, well, kind of dumb (my take anyway). If you’ve ever tried to write code on an Italian keyboard, you know the pain. Want a backslash? That’s AltGr + ù. Curly braces? AltGr + Shift combinations. And the forward slash, which you use constantly in vim for searching, is hiding on Shift + 7. Every single day I was reaching for modifier keys just to type basic programming symbols. ...

Oh boy did this make me pull some hair. Today we’re going to see how, with a shortened domain, we can redirect every request to our main domain. Preface In my example I’m going to use gerosalorenzo.com, the website you’re visiting right now, and grlo.me, a shortened version that I’ve just bought in the hope of hosting a personal url shortener (not in my homeserver as I wouldn’t want that dependent on my ability to keep my infrastructure up, just like this static website). ...