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Gemini 2.5, MCP servers and Neovim v0.11.0

Spring is coming, and the sun has been out a lot more. This weekend I’m meeting up with childhood friends, without the logistics and responsibilities which normally is part of my daily family life with young kids. I think sometimes young adults, or just people who doesn’t have kids, would think I’m exaggerating. I’m a simple man (and it's fine if you call me "old" 😅) but I’m really looking forward to sipping on some newly brewed coffee outdoors and in the sun, having adult conversations around - not work, not responsibilities, not logistics - but what comes into mind, in the moment.

  • GitHub Copilot now has a free tier. I actually cancelled my subscription and I'm now on the free plan, to see if that's sufficient for my usage (which is limited personal projects outside of work).
  • GitHub has taken fine grained PATs to GA. This is nice, as some settings had to be manually changed in the GitHub repo's settings but can now be set in the token instead. Useful when you think of permissions around GitHub Actions workflows, for example.
  • It looks like GitHub finally addressed Dependabot's inability to upgrade dependencies in the pyproject.toml's [dependency-groups] section, as part of dependabot-core#1084.
  • I realized the other day that Go tooling added to the go.mod via go get -tool <pkgname> will not be considered for updating by Dependabot unless you specify the allow and dependency-name fields, as they are stored as indirect dependencies, which Dependabot apparently does not update by default. See the Dependdabot yml docs for more details.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro was released and it works great when I use it with MCP servers in Codecompanion.nvim and with mcphub.nvim (which has a big refactoring effort going on ahead of its 4.0.0 release, which they are asking for feedback on). I haven't fully concluded whether Gemini 2.5 Pro works better for me than Claude Sonnet 3.7 or not, but it is cheaper and faster. I have a feeling Google, like the train it is, is getting its momentum up here...
  • I took Claude Desktop for a test drive and installed some local MCP servers. It's pretty useful when you want to leverage its ability to render HTML/frontend/interactive stuff, as such things are more difficult to preview in the editor. This official guide was very helpful in getting set up, and it also contains details on how to build a simple MCP server yourself.
  • I wrote a new tool, multipr, for making the same change (or set of changes) to multiple GitHub repositories. I've been thinking of making such a tool many, many times...
  • Neovim v0.11.0 is out and Gregory put out a great blog post with highlights. With this new release, setting up LSPs will be a lot easier. However, before migrating off lsp-config completely, keep an eye out on this PR which refactors the configs for this new way of defining the LSP configs. My thought is that it could still be nice with some sane defaults being provided by lsp-config.

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