Finally! After some time working on this, I am finally able to announce that I’ve created a nicer online reading experience for Boost Your Coding Fu With VSCode and Vim and published it in this very blog. Yihoo!!

In earlier articles of this series you learned how you can repeat searches with n and repeat the last change with .. Using a combination of n and . you could apply the same change on every single search match with just two keystrokes. Two keystrokes. That’s fast.

But what if I told you there’s a faster way?

A beautiful, inspiring desktop credit to LUM3N in unsplash

Here’s what I think: The sweet spot of finding a good side project is to look at the intersection of all these elements:

1. A topic that you are really interested in
2. Something that can be useful at your current job
3. A technology that is hot/new at the moment and on the rise

Why?

Hello! :D

Some weeks ago I wrote an article on how to improve your productivity with Visual Studio Code by using Vim titled: Boost Your Coding Fu With Visual Studio Code and Vim and it was much better received than I had ever expected so I though: Hmm… Wouldn’t it be cool to make it a short book that people can use as a guide into VSCodeVim. And Tada! Here it is: Boost Your Coding Fu With Visual Studio Code and Vim - The Book.

One of my readers asked me this question recently: What are the best ways to advance my career?

And I thought to myself… hmm… good question… This bears some reflection… The more I thought about the more I realized that this was a perfect thing to write about in more length and here we are!

I’m not going to tell you to build a portfolio, start contributing to open source, write a blog, be active on social media, speak at user groups and conferences. Nope. We’re going to dig deeper.