“Vim experts” don’t prefer buffers over tabs: they use buffers as the file proxies they are and tab pages as the workspaces they are. Buffers and tab pages have different purposes so preferring one to the other makes no sense whatsoever. — Why do Vim experts prefer buffers over tabs?

A good understanding of Vim’s various lists is a massive productivity boost — it’s taken me many years of Vim use to truly appreciate this. — Vim’s useful lists.

♪ New Order · Truth

TIL that Racket comes with a migration utility for packages installed using a preceding release: raco pkg migrate.

♪ Tindersticks · What Is A Man

Grabbing some new tracks from https://archive.org, mostly good old post-punk. Together with music I bought and music I found here and there, I’m nearing 18,000 tracks on my HD. Time to get a NAS I guess.

I had noticed that many of our live shows were ending really early: a couple times recently, the last band was done and we were closed by 10pm. That seems weird and wrong to me. Especially in the summer: who wants to show up at a night club while the sun is still up? “Why are we doing that?”, I asked. Well, Devon did some research, and the answer seems to be, “Because everyone else is doing that too.” — Wherein this is just a sleepy seaside town now

♪ Good Lovelies · Blurry Days

I just tried musikcube as an alternative to cmus. The UI is really great, but I fear I will miss some cmus features, like having different views for albums and playlists, filters, and so on.