Migrating to Hakyll
So. I’ve taken the plunge and have started migrating to Hakyll. Hakyll is a static site generator, written in Haskell. Hakyll is like Jekyll, but not Ruby. (Well, I’ve not used Jekyll, so I can’t easily, validly compare them). Why Hakyll? Because Haskell. (Well, Hakyll as opposed to Jekyll). Why a static site generator? ’cause it’s cool. I like the [...]
Overview of Yi Contrib User Configs
The Yi editor repository on GitHub has a yi-contrib folder with some sample configurations of Yi, which contains about a dozen Haskell files which are hopefully useful to new Yi users. See https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/tree/master/yi-contrib/src/Yi FuzzyOpen.hs”aims to provide (the essential subset of) the same functionality that vim plugins ctrlp and command-t provide.” It’s written as a module, so that configurations can import [...]
Yi
So. Emacs and Vim are pretty much long-standing kings of text editors. (I’ll include the “vi is awesome, you should use that” in the Vim camp; I’ll include the Sublime Text folk in the “use whatever works” camp). And a sidetrack to talk about how LightTable looks interesting, or whether NeoVim will supersede Vim’s place, or whether Vim is the [...]
Emma
I stumbled across “Emma Approved” during the season of procrastination. “Emma Approved” being a YouTube series from the same folk who made the “Lizzie Bennet Diaries”. Just as LBD adapts from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, “Emma Approved” adapts from … “Emma”. I’d heard that Emma isn’t quite a likeable character at the start. This was helpful, since Emma Woodhouse [...]
Interlude
Looking over the recent posts.. it seems I write about text editors a lot. I came on here to write a post about a text editor. I’ve instead opted to write about one or two other things as well. [...]
NeoVim
So. I just found out about NeoVim (sometimes abbreviated nvim) today. Which could be called “slow”, seeing as their Bountysource fundraiser ended a month ago. There was a post to the Vim Developer Google group mailing list, which saw a reply from Bram Moolenar and got some fairly heated discussion. A corresponding reddit thread has some fairly understandable cynicism of [...]
Vim and iOS Programming
This last semester I’ve been having to do iOS programming. I’m not an expert Vim user, but I use Vim enough such that, without being overzealous, I found I really missed the motion keys and other such things. Others have gone before me on this topic. Here, here, here; (and the other text editor has some stuff like here). Fortunately [...]
Online Resources for Git
While using the basics of Git (and other DVCSs) such as commit, push, pull or even merge are fairly straightforward to use, there’s a lot to Git which needs to be understood in case things go wrong while trying to do these things.
I can’t be alone in using Git without having a good understanding of what’s going on [...]
Tools
Bram Moolenaar, the fella who created ViM, talked in 2007 about how to be effective with your editor. Given that programmers love to disagree about which text editor is best, it comes as a surprise to see in this video that Bram isn’t big on “ViM is the best”. - The general guideline he gives is along the lines of [...]
Gee Tee Ayy
Continuing the trend of discussing videogames before I’ve quite finished playing them.. I’ve recently had a go at playing through “the best GTA for the PC”, GTA:San Andreas. Now I can comment about whether Saints Row is a GTA clone. - it’s not. Saints Row is actually fun. Well. GTA:SA is fun in its own kindof way.
But when [...]