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-    <h1>
-      Thoughts on Neovim
-      <span class="subtitle">Who even needs an IDE anyways?</span>
-    </h1>
-
-    <h2>Why I'm using Neovim</h2>
-
-    <p>
-      When I first started coding in high school and then later in early
-      college I used to jump around between editors a lot more than I do today.
-      I used Notepad++, then Visual Studio, briefly Netbeans, then Atom.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      But since settling into frontend web development I've stayed with VSCode
-      for a very long time.  I liked it because it was straightforward to get
-      started with, but versatile enough to extend for other languages.
-      Between various jobs and projects I used it for Javascript, Java, C#,
-      Rust, and C - and it did admirably at pretty much all of these.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      But about a year ago I saw that VSCode had a Neovim plugin, and I was
-      intrigued.  I'd wanted to get more familiar with Vim beyond the basic
-      hjkl navigation, and this seemed like a great way to do that! 
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      So for the last year and change I've had the
-      <a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim">vscode-neovim</a>
-      plugin installed, and I've been really enjoying it!
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      I quickly fell in love with visual block mode, or the "delete N words"
-      commands.  They're just so handy I suddenly felt like they were missing
-      if I needed to edit code any other way!
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      But over the weekend I made the jump from using Neovim inside VSCode to
-      using it more or less on its own.  I saw a video that mentioned the
-      AstroNvim configuration framework and Neovide, and decided "yeah, I think
-      I want to try that", and a few days later . . . here we are.
-    </p>
-
-    <h2>How is it going?</h2>
-
-    <p>
-      Overall, surprisingly well.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      The AstroNvim config I'm using already had NeoTree set up which is
-      very nice.  I've figured out how to get ESLint and Prettier configured
-      for work, rust-analyzer installed for my own projects, I've been poking
-      at themes over and over again, and honestly . . . I'm really liking this.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      Getting Neovide to connect to a VM over the network was relatively
-      straightforward, I love how easy it is to drop my config into git and
-      keep it synced between computers, and finally having proper mouse support
-      (which I never could get sorted out with my terminal) is a pretty big
-      game changer for when I'm just reading code.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      Also, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't love the smooth scrolling and
-      cursor animation.  I am a simple girl after all.
-    </p>
-
-    <h2>Should you try replacing your IDE?</h2>
-
-    <p>
-      That is a tricky question to answer.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      I was comfortable spending some time experimenting with this because I
-      already had decent familiarity with Vim and had been using Neovim
-      specifically for a while.  If you don't have any similar experience,
-      the learning curve is going to be pretty steep.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-      But hey - if you're looking for a challenge, you'll definitely learn
-      a lot.
-    </p>
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