(Read part 1 here)

After the initial setup, I installed the apps that I use the most. I had taken backup of my Google Authenticator codes via a QR code, which I sent to myself.

I was able to scan it back from my Desktop Telegram app and all was well.

Restoring Microsoft Authenticator - also used for work - was not so easy. I couldn’t open an IT helpdesk ticket without logging into the Service Portal, which required me to be authenticated via MS Authenticator 😄

You know what makes it so easy for many people to just dump their thoughts into a silo like Twitter instead of writing a post on their own site? You don’t have to come up with a title for your post.

Source

This site has two types of posts. The normal ones with title and tags. Other are microposts I wrote about them here

micropost is simply an entry without a title (and tags)

My Android phone started acting weird few months ago. Some apps started crashing. I started seeing .. app keeps closing 😞

Then Google Play services wouldn’t connect - even when phone was connected to the internet.

I found out that uninstalling the updates (for Google Play) gets it working. But since phone was connected to the internet, it would “auto update” and would break again.

It started getting worse last few days. I had no option but to reset my phone.

I have written earlier that I’ve started using VSCode occasionally for work. Finding files and find-in-files is much better and faster.

But I do miss modal editing.

That is where VSpaceCode comes in.

VSpaceCode is Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

I had come across VSpaceCode almost two years ago

I was using VSCodium at that time (hoping it is faster than VSCode - it isn’t - on my old machine) and could not install VSpaceCode.

In my earlier post I had mentioned that I might try combining NANO emacs features with Minemacs - which is my current Emacs setup.

NANO emacs README has instructions for manual install which is what I ended up doing.

There is a separate repo just for the NANO theme, but somehow it did not work for me.

Instead, cloning the NANO emacs repo, and adding “just enough”™️ configuration to Minemacs worked for me.

Finally, got the access to the Arc browser.

Quick overview of what it is.

It is build on top of Chromium browser engine. But adds difference experience altogether. Benefit of using Chromium is that most of the extensions that work with Google Chrome already work. In fact, one installs the extensions from Google Chrome webstore itself 😄

Most awesome feature that made me want to try it is that it will Auto-close inactive tabs after 12 hours (default - can be increased to 24 hours, 7 or 30 days)

This week I’m travelling for work, and hence carrying only my work laptop. So far all my microblog entries were written from my personal laptop

I have option to clone the repo on my work machine, or not publish anything for this entire week (it is not like I publish every day, still ..)

I prefer not to clone my perosnal repo on work machine, and missing publishing also something I don’t want.

NANO emacs looks quite amazing, polished. Unfortunately, evil-mode is not turned ON by default.

One thing I’m going to try is to combine NANO theme (and some related packages) with Minemacs.

Minemacs has evil mode and keybindings which are close to Doom and I had no problem switching to it.

NANO emacs README has instructions on how to install just the theme and other parts, so that might do the trick.

The tips from my previous post didn’t quite work while writing the blog post using helix editor.

But as much as I can guess, it is a feature of the terminal and not the editor itself. So no point searching “Accent marks in Helix” 😄

Turns out initially¹ wezterm didn’t support accent mark without special configuration. ('use_ime = true'), but since then it is enabled by default.

Yet, it didn’t work for me.