Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

August, 2018

World Records for Backwards Running (Retrorunning)
Tabs or Spaces

The Top Starred repositories in Github have been analysed to understand which are the most common whitespace types in different programming languages.

Where Vim Came From
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Short history of Vim.

See also this recent article ("A Look at Vim, A Text Editor for the Ages"): https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/

The Basics of Speed Training

Good overview of different types of speed training workouts.

What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
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Including a C version of her program to calculate the 8th Bernoulli number.

Coming Home to Vim / Steve Losh [2010]

Steve Losh's post on why and how he uses vim.

RunningAHEAD - Topic: Hansons vs. Pfitzinger

A comparison of the Hansons Advanced and Pfitzinger 18/55-70 marathon training plans.

List of pedestrian circumnavigators - Wikipedia
Pain in the dots

git uses a two and three dot notation for git log and git diff.

Unfortunately they mean different, and nearly opposite things, in the two cases.

When running was for weirdos - YouTube
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A Tale of Five Editors

From ESR's The Art of Unix Programming

Race report: BolderBoulder 10K || 33:47, 27th place - Andrew Skurka
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Andrew Skurka's account of his first BolderBoulder (2018)

2d Visibility

"In a 2D top-down map it is sometimes useful to calculate which areas are visible from a given point. For example you might want to hide what’s not visible from the player’s location, or you might want to know what areas would be lit by a torch."

See also Nicky Case's similar "Sight and Light":
https://ncase.me/sight-and-light/

Rule of three (computer programming) - Wikipedia

Three strikes and you refactor.

Plover for Stenographers · Di Does Digital

A bunch of tips and links for using Plover.

A Beginner's Guide to Using ed Editor in Linux (Examples Included)

Most vi users should probably know the basics of ed/ex

My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text - Tristan Hume

Tristan Hume's commentary on text editors.

Jake Likes Onions — Maybe he’s running from the truth
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Jake Likes Onions on jogging from the coyote's point of view.

Interactive Steno Demo - StenoKnight CART Services - Mirabai Knight, Certified CART Provider

In-browser stenotype demo using normal/qwerty keyboard.

Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, grep and ripgrep