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Tired of Tmux prefix (C-b or C-a, depending on your taste)? Let’s rebind everything we used on the Alt key using bind-key -n M- whatever. It may not work on all terminals, but let’s that not stop us adding more aliases to our Tmux config file.
vim-wordy: Uncover usage problems in your writing. #vim
My journey from macOS to FreeBSD. #apple #unix
What makes old manuals so fascinating to me is that they document the history of applied computer science. This gives the entire field, including tech comms, the resemblance of a past. Let’s not dismiss that: in a sector where startups seem to build new things on top of blurry or nonexistent foundations, reading about old software reminds us that there’s indeed a giant upon whose shoulders we’ve climbed. — Why I collect and read old computer manuals
Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. — Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming
What you don’t realize is that you’ve been self-censoring yourself from searching most of the things you would have wanted to search. You already know subconsciously that Google isn’t going to return a good result. — Google Search Is Dying