An overview of microtypography via the Microtype LaTeX package.

I'm not convinced all of the microtyped examples look any better than the naive spacing...

Interview with the guy who crated the vifm file manager (25.7.2008)

Takes a look at some problems in font rasterization (anti-aliasing, hinting, etc).

Nice intro to writing basic terminal user interfaces with ANSI escape codes.

Joe "begriffs" Nelson's tips on using Vim.

How to quickly edit SVG figures in Inkscape (using a custom Xlib-based shortcut manager) and insert the results in a LaTeX document. Gilles Castel is a note-taking wizard.

On some of the rationale behind Emacs key binding conventions.

I was annoyed recently when a Vim theme I like[1] only used the standard 16 ANSI colors in 256-color terminals (like Apples' Terminal.app which does not support true/24-bit colors). But there are advantages.

https://github.com/bluz71/vim-moonfly-colors

some nice vim tips

Inspiring overview of how to take real-time notes in LaTeX using Vim with the Ultisnips plugin.