In a previous article I discussed how you can enable 256 colours for vim and how that can improve long coding sessions. But that left me with a problem when ssh'ing to machines where xterm-256color isn't supported. more »

To me X is just a way to get a better resolution and a better way to manage my terminals. In fact on 4 virtual desktops the only GUI application is a browser whenever elinks doesn't do the job, everything else is just terminals. Given that it's quite important to get as much as possible out of it, and there are a few things that quite help. more »

I had some developers coming over complaining that svn was interpreting javascript files as binary and asking if I could fix it. At first it sounded simple, I expected some server side config in the repository where I could set these kind of things, but that's not the way it works... more »

Last night I came up with some stuff to use vim for blogging. It involves some bash scripts and aliases, and you end up with a blog command you can invoke to create a new post. Once there I thought it'd been cool if doing blog<TAB> listed all my current posts and offered tab completation for partially typed names. Bash programmable completation is what I wanted, but it turned out to be less straightforward and well documented than I expected. more »

In the face of blogging clients, xml-rpc servers, blogging APIs and tons of other kludge, here is how I use vim and svn to post on my pyblosxom based blog. more »

As for mailinglists Rss feeds are also subjected to possibly long reading delays. Surely there is little to do if you physically lack the time , but then maybe you can make it a lot quicker. I could, and did. more »