+1 I enjoyed the writing style thoroughly. It made understanding the concepts super simple and fun to go through.

I agree. The "AI model" on the website takes that into account.

Does it work on windows with the neovim windows executable?

Unfortunately I haven't tested anything on windows yet, but I'd imagine there might be some quirks with curl and git.

When it becomes a bit more stable it will definitely be something I'll look into though :)

Aside to the discussion, can you point out a link to the changes you did? I'd like to get silver searcher faster as well on windows.

Sure. Here's a binary: https://github.com/tom-seddon/the_silver_searcher/tree/_vs20...

The source code is there too, but I wouldn't look too closely. "Cobbled together", like I said. Though I've been using it all the time, in conjunction with ag-mode - https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el - and haven't noticed any obvious problems.

I've used this in the past but came away disappointed as it regularly breaks over attachment sizes. I was using it to store my website backups in dropbox. Instead of this, now I setup a simple python dropbox script on my webserver which allows me to do few good things: 1. No connecting to third party apps. 2. No need to go through email servers, I can directly store the backups to dropbox 3. I still added an email addon layer on it for other usage where I send the files to my own mail server and the script then puts them into dropbox.

True..I try to avoid volatiles as much as I can. And as someone else pointed out on the blog in the commens, many implementations even get the volatiles wrong giving rise to a lot of bugs, so even if you were utmost careful about it, it can still cause issues.

Yes, using portable data types is much easier. But I thought about this when we had to make our code work with some legacy code (which we couldn't change) and the outputs were in non-portable data types.