nelstrom

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by nelstrom 12y ago
I'm pretty impressed with SendOwl. I like the flat monthly fee and generous bandwidth allowance. So far, I've not done a great volume of sales, but my customers have already remarked on how quickly the 0.8GB video file downloaded.
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Vim users: stop using hjkl(vimcasts.org)
93 points by nelstrom 14y ago|211 comments
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by nelstrom 14y ago
The feedback I got from Meetup.com was that: > the lack of content in your description looked suspicious. Generally speaking, we are known for reaching out to Meetup Groups when the content posted in the group description is unclear. I
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by nelstrom 14y ago
You might like my book, Practical Vim. It's now available from the Pragmatic Bookshelf as a beta book: http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
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by nelstrom 14y ago
I'm the author. Practical Vim is currently available as a beta book - containing 17 out of 20 chapters. I'll publish a new chapter every two weeks until it's complete.
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by nelstrom 16y ago
Incidentally, the rubyblock text-object uses matchit under the hood.
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by nelstrom 16y ago
Matchit.vim is great too, but you have to position your cursor on one of the block delimiting keywords (e.g. class, module, def, if, do or end) to make `v%` do what you want. The nice thing about text-objects is that the target area where y
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by nelstrom 17y ago
Do you have trouble cleaning up with your text editor? Does it cut through the toughest grease, grime and syntax errors? Are you burning your hands on too many hotkeys? Try Vim - Extra whitening classic scourer. Vim gets the job done faster
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by nelstrom 17y ago
You'll get me with drew at the domain name. Sorry that's not more obvious.
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by nelstrom 17y ago
Of course - and you're not the only one asking. The latest episode on modal editing ("the newbie killer") is a step back to basics. However, I don't intend to cover the material that you can find in the vimtutor.
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by nelstrom 17y ago
Vimcasts.org runs on Radiant CMS, which has page caching enabled by default. My problem was too many app instances spinning up. I've limited the PassengerMaxPoolSize and PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp both to 2, which seems to have fixed it. I
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by nelstrom 17y ago
Or you could subscribe to the podcast, and watch it offline: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
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by nelstrom 17y ago
I gave the server a kick, so it should be back up now. Thanks for your patience.