Removing Finder from the OS X Application Switcher
@erichatesyou sent me this tip today. It removes Finder from the OS X app switcher.
Vim 7.3 on a shared host
A few years ago I blogged about how I setup Vim on a shared web host. I needed to do this again today; but with a bit more control as to the features that were compiled:
The Twiddle Wakka
An article describing the usage of that weird ~> operator found in
gemspecs and Gemfiles. I read this a while back but keep forgetting where it
is when I want a technical explanation.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Researchers have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas.
Being 5 Years Ahead
Another reason I like iOS better than Android.
Allow binding ctrl-s and ctrl-q in Terminal.app
I ran into an annoying issue trying to configure ctrl-q as a Vim mapping in
Terminal.app for OS X. It turns out that flow
control was blocking it. I had
mistakenly thought that the flow control keys only applied to things like
less or more.
Vim anti-patterns
This post covers some vim anti-patterns and includes a few tricks I had not
known about (such as :set tildeop).
marked.vim
I threw together vim-marked, that provides some mappings for opening and closing Marked.app. Check it out if you’re using Vim and Marked!
Marked
I just discovered Marked today. It adds one of the few things I still miss from TextMate to vim, a live preview window for markdown.
Why Jekyll pwns WordPress
It was just about two years ago that I converted my WordPress blog into a Jekyll blog. Overall, I am very happy with the decision, here’s why.