In short it’s a design choice paying homage to some other books, as well as to make the reading experience less distracting. He has a whole page explaining here, https://practicaltypography.com/how-to-use.html
Hi HN! I'm Anthony and I just wanted to show you what myself and my friend James have worked on over lockdown! VPN services and platforms alike are all about trust, and UH VPN attempts to find a balance between leaving you in control of your data by controlling the servers, and making it quick and convenient to manage by providing a central management platform.
A bit of context about us; James and I are two computer science graduates that have started our own company working predominantly with network security. During lockdown we realised that the custom solutions we have made for our clients were things that we would have like to play about with during our degree, so we polished them up and have published them into a complete package, UH VPN!
I have a colleague that doesn't use shift and uses caps lock for capitalised words. I've never quite understood it, but he swears by it - even when he admits its slower...
Re: your edit, Yeah it can! Set up a folder, say 'vim' for your example, and then inside of that folder you have a '.vim' file and a '.config/nvim' file.
Then when you run `stow vim` from the parent of the original 'vim' folder it will symlink everything in there to ~.
You can even have more folders that have a '.config/foobar' inside of them, and when you stow those it will all work itself out nicely!
Edit: You can find examples of this in my dotfiles https://github.com/AnthonyWharton/dotfiles/ (I use stow if you didn't guess :P). For example look at the 'i3' folder and the 'polybar' folder, they both add things to '~/.config '