This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad August 18, 2025 TL;DR: I wrote a Neovim plugin in Lua that serves HTTP requests from open buffers. It has no external dependencies, it has first-class support for serving content in Djot, and it is faster than Nginx so it won’t be a performance bottleneck behind a reverse proxy. What’s not to like? There is that famous story from the 1990s about the man who was a Lisper but could not afford any of the commercial Lisps, so he deployed message routing for a German air traffic control system in a headless instance of Emacs. This, of course, is horrific. But it does remind us: our editors are capable of more, if we just let them out of the little nook that they occupy in our imagination. Like Emacs, Vim is also fairly…
