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Xerxes_Xue

I built a wakatime plugin for Helix

https://github.com/Xerxes-2/wakatime.hx

It was initially built with the help of Claude because I'm not comfortable with Lisp family languages, but later I read the steel book and tried refactor it by hand.

My wakatime.com dashboard

I have been using it for over 1 month now and it's working pretty well.

If you want to try it you should using the steel fork, I packaged it at AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/helix-steel-git , I think there is also package for NixOS call `steelix`. I tried make a homebrew tap for it https://github.com/Xerxes-2/homebrew-tap/ , but the built-in grammar is not working so you need to manually build it.

Posted Apr 29, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

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