Neovim Workshop
Last week, I did a workshop on Neovim.
I haven't seen any technical workshops in Lucknow before. I thought of starting one.
I created a standee and placed it right outside the TCS gate.
I didn't expect too many registrations because of the niche topic. I wanted to attract only the nerds-and-geeks for the first event.
I used HasGeek for registrations. HasGeek has pretty good event organisation system:
- HasGeek is free.
- It automatically sends the reminders for the events.
- It allows us to broadcast messages before and after the event. This is useful for sharing files and links.
- It creates a calendar and archive of all our past and future events.
- It is simple and clean.
Over the week, the workshop received 2 outside registrations. Neither of them turned up 🙈.
I still conducted the workshop with two of my colleagues. I loved it!
I had spent around 20 hours preparing for the topic. I watched multiple videos to understand things better. I rewrote my configuration file multiple times and broke it down into small incremental learnings. I learnt a lot about Lua, Lazy, LSPs and CMPs. I wouldn't have spent this much time on NVIM configuration otherwise.
My colleagues, Mukesh and Himanshu, too enjoyed the session. They asked lots of questions and finally started using Neovim themselves. They are loving the new auto-completion system and Avante.
VS Code can do almost everything Neovim does. But it can never provide the satisfaction we get by hacking things together ourselves. That's why I love Neovim.
I hope to do the next workshop on VisiData. Coming soon :).