Vim 8 added a lot of much-needed functionality, and new community sites like VimAwesome have made plugin discovery and evaluation easier. I’ve been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here’s a snapshot of my current state, which includes:

• fzf and fzf.vim for finding files
• ack.vim and ag for searching files
• Vim + tmux is the key to victory 🔑
• ALE is the new Syntastic because it’s asynchronous
• …and lots more. Keep reading.

Markdown (.MD) is a text format that lazy people use to write HTML. Unfortunately once those same lazies are used to the format, their eyes glaze over and they start to believe .MD is the solution for all the world’s problems. They share a lot in common with githubbies who think github is the solution for book production, open source, bad democracies etc..

More than 24 million developers in over 200 countries can't be wrong — open-source software is here to stay.

Xonsh is a cross-platform, Python-powered, Unix shell language and command prompt designed for the use of experts and novices alike.

The Xonsh language is a Python 3.4+ superset and it features additional shell primitives that make it familiar to working from IPython and Bash.

Xonsh is easily scriptable and it allows you to mix both command prompt and python syntax coupled with a rich standard library, man-page completion, typed variables, and syntax highlighting, among other features.

Xonsh is significantly different from other shell tools as can be seen in comparison to other command prompts like Bash, zsh, fish, IPython, and plumbum.

Xonsh has certain requirements to run including Python v3.4+, PLY, and prompt-toolkit.

I don't know which shell tools and command prompt you enjoy using the most but Xonsh seems to have won the hearts of many users for reasons experts celebrate over.

Disclaimer: this is a very nerdy blog entry. It is about lightweight markup languages and why I think that Org-mode is the best lightweight markup language for many use-cases. And with lightweight markup language, I do mean the syntax, the way you express headings, lists, font variations such as bold face or italic, and such things.

Org-Mode:

• Is Intuitive, Easy to Learn and Remember
• Is Standardized
• Is Consistent
• Can Be Easily Typed
• Makes Sense Outside of Emacs
• Has Excellent Tool Support (If You Want)

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. Text editors are used to write programming code, change configuration files, take notes, and more.

A few months from now, if James Tanton and his Global Math Project co-conspirators have their way, ten million schoolchildren will take a huge mathematical step from the twenty-first century all th…

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

There are countless number of terminal based games on Linux, but in this article, we shall look at some of the most interesting command-line games for Linux.

The last thing I remember before passing out was the pain. It had overtaken everything, hunching my back, and curling my fingers into claws pecking out incoherent thoughts on my laptop before finally…

These Python libraries make it easy to scratch that personal project itch.

While facing slow internet access speed on your systems, the first thing we want to do is check the internet speed in order to troubleshoot slow connectivity issues. Checking internet speed also comes in handy when you have switched to

Given how much time I spend producing text, I've spent shockingly little of it considering the tradeoffs of various modes to input it. I had a vague sense that typing is faster than handwriting and that, despite this fact, I still prefer writing...

It was developed to ensure soldiers stayed alert and didn't make mistakes due to tiredness

Features:

• Cross-platform support for Linux and Mac
• Automation (so there's no need to remember to click "backup")
• Point-in-time recovery (or something close) so if you accidentally delete a file but don't notice until later, it's still recoverable
• Low cost
• Replicated data store for backup sets, so data exists in more than one place (i.e., not just backing up to a local USB drive)
• Encryption in case the backup files fall into the wrong hands

L1 Terminal Fault/Foreshadow explained in ~three minutes For a more detailed technical view of L1 Terminal Fault, please see this deeper dive with Jon Masters.

I used to fork projects from github when I thought they are useful: even not currently but maybe I need it in the future, so I did a backup of it. However, I didn’t always give the project a star. Gradually, I found this is not a good habit.

Currently, when I fork a project, I acknowledge it gives me valuable information, I always give this project a star.

Studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it, it melts between your fingers and vanishes.”Image…

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