Vim Suffering

Shower thought: when I first used Vim 17 years ago (or so), I did it because I wanted to suffer. Now I suffer whenever I can’t use it. I guess this is the nature of all changes, especially habits.

Annotations

I finally upgraded Python version on my Debian Trixie to 3.14. (sidenote: Best number.) Guess what. __annotations__ on dataclasses are gone. Generally, annotations recommendations changed (again), which is mildly infuriating. Now there’s a library to inspect annotations. But it’s not in inspect module (because inspect.get_annotations() is sooo 3.13), it’s annotationslib. No. Sorry. Typo. annotationlib. Without “s”. (sidenote: Psikutas bez “s” na końcu. (Polish joke))

I’ll have to live with this abomination:

def get_annotations(obj) -> dict:
    try:
        import annotationlib
        return annotationlib.get_annotations(obj)
    except ImportError:
        return obj.__annotations__

todomd

I’m writing todomd: terminal task manager for quick capturing of tasks into markdown files. One of main features is preservation of file formatting: it (hopefully) should keep whitespaces, blank lines, line endings, indentations, even when moving tasks between sections. My handmade markdown parser became so ridiculous that I seriously considered renaming the project to ELMM: Empty Line Management Machine. After 3 days of constant testing/fixing/refactoring of main parser, I want to just lie and cry.

But I just did a test run of todomd archive on my 6 year old, >1.5k lines of horrible, scribble-quality quicknotes.md file and in 80 ms todomd made a beautiful new archive section and didn’t break a single line. I almost cried, but this time these were the tears of joy.

AI-Generated

I’m sick of effortless AI-generated crap. Like t-shirt designs that all look exactly the same and repeat the same mistakes. Guitar that have 5-7 strings depending where on the fretboard you look? Check. Hands without thumbs? Check. Hilarious mistakes in text? Check.

Another one: plastic-looking images that replaced stock photos. I thought that stock photos were bad, but at least they were photos! Now they’re “plastic box which looks like PlayStation 5 + plastic controller which resembles Xbox pad”, or a “classroom with periodic table with elements that don’t exist”.

And don’t let me start about “AI-assisted” emotionless, one-size-fits-all prose. With forced suspense. By breaking sentences. In strangest. Places. (read with deep male voice in your head of course)