Abbreviations are
another completion
primitive in Vim. Since it’s full auto, it wants to be
magical. <Key>
presses and scripts can be replayed. Paired with
custom completions
and output from external tools, it transforms into advanced witchcraft and/or
cursed sorcery. In my case, it just expands acronyms.
Here’s Vim editor thesaurus completion. This kind of completion has its various limitations that I might detail later. I mentioned thesauri in passing but my Internet connection is pitiful and writing about editor meta feels a bit bizarre.
More Vim editor meta? Since posting a video of my LaTeX/Vim shenanigans, queries for tips arrive occasionally. Completion and whole line completion are boilerplate hammers. The more buffers and windows loaded, the more “robust”.
Banana trees are kind of invincible. Here’s what happens if you chop a sufficiently radioactive one clean across the mid…
The Chrome experimental recorder tool has been around for a long while. I thought it was still mostly but I got schooled and apparently, this is a more faster way to jump–start a puppeteer script/test:
Browser rendering engine feel: Webkit (Safari), Blink (Chrome) or Gecko (Firefox)?
Which browser engine “paints” the smartest on my device? In the clip below; Surf substitutes for Safari and Chromium for Chrome. My blog is the testee since there’s guaranteed cache control and jitter.
Surf and by extension Safari (or any Webkit–based browser) wins . Webkit feels smooth (sneakily, too smooth). It’s probably partly why Safari on macOS/iOS feels so fast. Chrome (not Chromium) is almost on par or so I’ve been told. Not exactly web dev but interesting huh?
Strange. In the last few years, I’ve abandoned search engines for most programming related queries by chugging along happily with Recoll. If I had the time I’d sit down and hack out a web front–end for its Python API but the desktop interface supplied with from my own web crawlers works beautifully (medoc92/recollwebui also exists).
Hugo is a gateway for discovering neat golang libraries. Version 0.104.0 introduced a color extraction method that has lots of use–cases. An easy one is to generate basic image gradient placeholders. The browser has its own deferred/lazy loading logic so fancy image gradients (on a static site) require only a few lines of pre–generated styles.
if anyone tells you that
is dead — they’re in a bubble.
Bing is our witness; the
hasfeed:
prefix returns sites
with a feed, the feed:
prefix
gives a direct feed link. No… I’m not a secret Microsoft™ agent —
DuckDuckGo and others support this too
;-) 38B+
are big boy numbers.
The nix
packages collection has a
neat library repository. A small
nudge can
make it completely standalone.
Basically it allows experimenting quickly with configuration patterns for custom
stuff without an expensive evaluation.