5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 11, 2026

A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)

If you've decided to try out Vim and went down the rabbit hole to Nvim, good news: there's a plugin manager arriving in Neovim 0.12 which will be available as vim.pack. Vimpack is written in Lua, and adding plugins becomes quite simple using a vim.pack.add command in your config! 
Related: Lazyvim

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI

Bozhidar explores how the VSCode moat and the massive popularity of LLMs for coding is changing the need for 'powertools' like Emacs and Vim. When people spend less of their time navigating through an editor and much more time either speaking to their computer or typing out instructions in plain English, the case for modal editors becomes a little blurry. 
Just like the author, I still think there is a strong case for learning Vim keybindings, since at least for the foreseeable future we're still going to have to navigate our way through code, even if we didn't right most of it! Also previously gnarly set up processes are much simpler with a tool to help write the config..
Related: Learning Vim in 3 Steps

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

Sometimes direct communication is better and more efficient, even if it can come across as blunt or rude. Croker's Rules, which I had never heard of before, is basically something you can invoke to skip social niceties - basically giving someone permission to 'tell it like it is' without all of the sugarcoating that we include to make sure we're still invited out to join the team for lunch :)
Developers are probably more likely than most people to default to Crocker's Rules style communication, but it could be useful to set this out as a an expectation in a team setting.  

Things I've done with AI

A lot of criticism of LLM coding tools amidst all of the buzz about them in 2026 is people asking "but what have you actually built with them?". In this post sjer shares some of the things that he's built over the past few months. 

Vite 8 is Out!

Still one of the best things to arrive in the frontend ecosystem in the past decade, Vite is more popular than ever and is still my favourite build tool. It's worth checking out the post to see some of the new features and updates that have been added, including Rolldown as first-class citizen, integrated devtools and built in tsconfig paths support!