Abouts on Gaveen Prabhasara

About Me

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Gaveen Prabhasara de Silva, a sysadmin, programming language tourist, and petty dabbler of the written word. Some people know me as a technologist, some as a poet/writer, some as an artist, and some as a tinkerer—all valid aspects of my life. I am also neurodivergent and a father.

My areas of interest include systems engineering, writing, music, craftsmanship/DIY, open source, science/technology, anime, mycology, and cooking—among other things. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’m good at them, just that I’m interested in them. It also doesn’t mean my interest in something is for its conventional usage. For instance, I’m fascinated by all sorts of polearms, even though I’m a pacifist. I like making all kinds of mechanical keyboards but only like using ergonomic builds. But I digress.

Blog Navigation & RSS Feeds

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Links and RSS Feeds

Since this site is generated with Hugo, RSS feeds should be supported everywhere. All you have to do is to append a /index.xml to the URL of a relevant section.

Section	Link	RSS Feed
Main	gaveen.me	https://gaveen.me/index.xml
Sections	Blog Posts	https://gaveen.me/posts/index.xml
	About	https://gaveen.me/about/index.xml
	Facets	https://gaveen.me/facets/index.xml
Categories	Tech	https://gaveen.me/categories/tech/index.xml
	Update	https://gaveen.me/categories/update/index.xml
	Opinion	https://gaveen.me/categories/opinion/index.xml
	Prose	https://gaveen.me/categories/prose/index.xml
	Poetry	https://gaveen.me/categories/poetry/index.xml
	Musing	https://gaveen.me/categories/musing/index.xml
	Remembering	https://gaveen.me/categories/remembering/index.xml
	Personal	https://gaveen.me/categories/personal/index.xml
Tags	#Vim	https://gaveen.me/tags/vim/index.xml
(e.g.,)	#Open Source	https://gaveen.me/tags/open-source/index.xml

The list of tags are non-exhaustive. If you have a particular tag you’d like to explore, you can use the following syntax to deduce the link and RSS feed of that particular tag.

My Setup: ErgoMech Keyboard

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

One of my hobbies/special interests is Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and Keyboard Layouts that go with them. I’ll use this page (soon) as an up-to-date place to explain how I have configured my custom ergonomic keyboard setup.

ID75

Until this page is ready, I’ll link the GitHub repo with my custom keyboard configuration.

My Setup: Text Editor

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In the future, I might keep an up-to-date page here explaining my text editor configuration (including plugin selection), both for posterity and as a hopefully helpful source of information.

Vim

Vim has been my preferred text editor for a long time. Since there is already a reasonably detailed blog post, I’ll point to it until there is a significant change.

Neovim

Neovim is a more modernized variation of Vim (kind of like how Vim was an upgrade to Vi). I use Neovim (nvim) as my preferred coding editor since is has everything Vim has and much more. For example, better syntax handling, better Language Server Protocol (LSP) and Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) client integration, better code completion, etc.