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Vim: Hard Mode 1 Jan 2013 | 03:53 pm
VIM: Hard Mode Hard Mode is a plugin which disables the arrow keys, the hjkl keys, the page up/down keys, and a handful of other keys which allow one to rely on character-wise navigation. The philosop...
Programming in Patterns 25 Dec 2012 | 01:06 am
What many who aren’t initiated into the Cult of Vi don’t appreciate is the power of programming in patterns. They haven’t made the conceptual leap from editing in characters, and still see their canva...
Romney’s Debatable Debate Victory 5 Oct 2012 | 05:19 am
972 words Last night’s debate went very well for the Romney campaign. Obama’s well-earned reputation for being smug and professorial was on full display. Enjoying a relatively comfortable lead in the ...
Review of The Art of Unix Programming 16 Aug 2012 | 05:00 am
The Art of Unix Programming is an imbalanced rant by a man who presumes himself to be far more enlightened and amusing than he actually is. If you’re looking for a sober exposition of the Unix program...
Guerilla Programming 12 Aug 2012 | 09:35 pm
Consultants don’t always get to choose their environments. Project constraints, time constraints, and sticky situations interfere with attempts to code in the manner we would prefer to code in. One of...
Regular Expression Cookbook Review 3 Aug 2012 | 03:19 am
RegExes are intimidating, cryptic, fragile, inconsistent, and cognitively demanding. Nearly every platform, language and editor sports a different implementation with critical differences. And these a...
Microsoft Isn’t Going Anywhere 27 Jul 2012 | 10:32 am
Steve’s company is doing one thing right As a Linux geek who firmly embraces the Unix Philosophy of computing, it’s obligatory for me to rail against Microsoft, celebrating its recent humiliations an...
Hoosier Nation Retires 19 May 2012 | 11:55 am
I’m leaving the state of Indiana in a few weeks for family reasons. As part of that departure, I’m retiring the Hoosier Nation project. I have not given up the struggle, lost hope, or faltered in my ...
Satan Himself takes on Hoosier Nation 5 May 2012 | 08:10 am
Bloomington Anarchist Collective The fictional front group “Bloomington Anarchist Collective” has a new blog. It has a new blog because it desperately needs to do damage control in the wake of Thomas...
The Hypocrisy of Liberal Diversity and the Multicultural Dream 30 Apr 2012 | 05:17 am
I know that we all are familiar with the phrase “separate but equal,” suffice to say that every elementary school student is drilled with this phrase ad infinitum whilst lectured at length about 1960′...
