With Vim as a sort of secondary editor, I want to be able to fire it up unconfigured and continue to be nearly as productive. A pile of remappings would prohibit this. In my mind this is like a form of emergency preparedness. Other people stock up food and supplies. I’m preparing myself to sit at a strange machine without any of my configuration so that I can start the rewrite of the software lost in the disaster, so long as that machine has vi, cc, and make. If I can’t code in C, then what’s the point in surviving anyway? — My Journey with Touch Typing and Vim

  Marianne Faithfull, Guilt.

Macro elegance: the magical simplicity of Lisp macros. #lisp

Why your website should be under 14kb in size.

Beautiful code is likely to be simple – clear and easy to understand. Beautitful code is likely to be compact – just enough code to do the job and no more – but not cryptic, to the point where it cannot be understood. Beautiful code may well be general, solving a broad class of problems in a uniform way. One might even describe it as elegant, showing good taste and refinement. — A Regular Expression Matcher

Use plaintext email.

Integers, decibels, and graphs.

Should I use Signed or Unsigned Ints In C? (Part 1). #clang

A simple way to make HTML websites: https://john-doe.neocities.org.

Deconstructing the “Unix philosophy”. #unix