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Musings about blogging
Recently I was wondering how long should my blog posts be? I mean, I want them to be useful to people, but on the other hand, I noticed on myself that when reading on the Internet (in my browser, or in an RSS reader), the “Too Long, Didn’t Read” (TLDR) syndrome kicks in very soon. [...]
Have MacVim zoom horizontally too
To make MacVim zoom in both directions, open a Terminal window, and enter: defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMZoomBoth 1
How not to mess up encodings
I’m not the kind of pedant guy who always fights for right language, right syntax, or right accenting. In the twentieth century, when there was no standard way to use accents, I wrote my emails, documents, etc even in Hungarian without accents, rather than using the half-cooked solutions that were around, like the multitude of character mappings (for us Hungarians, there were ISO-8859-2 aka Latin-2, ISO-8859-16 aka Latin-16, Windows-1250, CP852, Mac CentralEurRoman, and CP437 that almost had all of our characters). I guess there are nations where it was even worse.
WriteRoom emulation with VIM
Using a full-screen, black editor can be good for reducing distractions in writing, we all know that. If you are a writer, you can buy WriteRoom or some of the similar products. But if you are a programmer, and you use MacVIM anyway (you do, don’t you?), then there is a simpler and better solution [...]
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