Articles about tools
2020 - • 1 minute read
Boost Your Coding Fu Podcast: Chapter 8 - Selecting Text in Vim
Where you learn how to select text in VSCode and Vim
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5 Minutes Vim: Enabling Vim in Zsh
In this 5 minutes of Vim goodness you learn how to enable Vim in Zsh
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Learn Vim. A New Extension to Help You Learn Vim in VSCode
A new extension to help you learn Vim in VSCode
- • 14 minutes read
5 Minutes Vim: Copying, Cutting, Pasting, Registers and How to Tame Them
In this 5 minutes of Vim goodness you learn to effectively copy, cut and paste things in Vim by taking advantage of Vim's registers.
- • 4 minutes read
5 Minutes Vim: Learn to Use Vim's Help
In this 5 minutes of Vim goodness you learn how to use Vim help to learn more about Vim, solve issues and become more effective
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5 Minutes Vim: CtrlP considered harmful
In this 5 minutes of Vim goodness you learn how to find a superior mapping to ctrlP for moving within your project
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2019 - • 4 minutes read
The Wizard Logs - Part III - The Adventures, Glory and Misfortunes of Writing Wizards Use Vim
Where I continue my adventures writing Wizards Use Vim. Recap of what has happened over the past year with freezing Wizards Use Vim for a while while I published Boost Your Coding Fu in VSCode and Vim, and what I'm planning to do in the future.
- • 8 minutes read
Polyglot Programming in Vim (or How to Get A Great Developer Experience for Any Language in Vim)
Where I share how to do polyglot programming in Vim and get a great development experience in any language for those that enjoy using lots of different programming languages.
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Jaime's Guide to Tmux: The Most Awesome Tool You Didn't know you needed
Where I guide you through tmux, what it is, why should you care and how to set it up to maximize your coding enjoyment.
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Boost Your Coding Fu Podcast: Chapter 7 - Insert Mode a la Vim
Where you learn the many ways you can jump into Insert mode in Vim
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Boost Your Coding Fu Podcast: Chapter 6 - Vim's Secret Language
Where you learn about the secret language a the heart of Vim.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Chapter 5 - Editing Text Like Magic with Vim Operators
Where you learn how you edit text like magic using Vim operators in combination with counts and motions.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Chapter 4 - Moving Blazingly Fast with Vim Motions
Where you learn how you can move fast as a griffin by relying on the varied and powerful Vim motions
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Chapter 3 - Your First Steps in Vim
Where you learn the very basic skills you need to survive in Vim, and how to beware of the grue.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Chapter 2 - Installing VSCodeVim
Where I guide you on how to install Vim in VSCode.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Chapter 1 - Introduction
Where I introduce you to Vim in VSCode and why you should care, explain what is Vim and how it can make you a more productive developer, discuss the diagrams in the book and how to pronounce Vintharas in Elvish and English.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim, The Auditory Experience: Foreword
Whereby I introduce you to the Boost Your Coding Fu auditory experience.
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Improve and Extend Your Text Objects With targets.vim
Whereby we start a new series diving into useful vim plugins. The first of which is vim.targets, an essential vim plugin that lets you extend and improve the use of text objects in Vim.
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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim is Complete! Yihoo!
Whereby I announce that Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim is done!
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Vim Plugins: A Methodology to Become 1% Better Every Week
Whereby we present a new series diving into useful vim plugins and discuss a methodology for taking the most advantage of your plugins.
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New and Shiny! Read Boost Your Coding Fu With VSCode and Vim Online in This Very Site!
Whereby I announce a new online reading experience for Boost Your Coding Fu With VSCode and Vim in this very site. Enjoy!
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Switfly Operating On Search Matches in Vim and VSCodeVim
Whereby I teach you to quickly edit search matches in VSCodeVim and Vim. This in an excerpt from the Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCodeVim The Book.
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Behold! Boost Your Coding Fu With Visual Studio Code and Vim - The Book
Whereby I launch a new book on VSCode and Vim
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Vlog: New Series on Vim in Visual Studio Code!
I'm making a new video series on using Vim inside Visual Studio Code. Super concise and condensed. Lots of goodies packed in just a couple of minutes.
- • 26 minutes read
Boost Your Coding Fu With Visual Studio Code and Vim
In this article we uncover how to level up your Visual Studio Code coding skills by using the VsCodeVim plugin that brings lots of awesomeness from Vim inside Visual Studio Code.
- • 5 minutes read
5 Minutes Vim: Moving Fast Within a File
In this 5 minutes of Vim goodness you learn how to move fast like the wind inside the confines of a file
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The Wizard Logs - Part II - The Adventures, Glory and Misfortunes of Writing Wizards Use Vim
Where I continue my adventures writing Wizards Use Vim. Lots of new writing, passed 200 pages barrier, new art, new decisions, better book. Wo wooo
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Wizards Use Vim: Tips For Learning Vim
Welcome to Wizards Use Vim! This is a preview chapter of my upcoming book Wizards Use Vim where I offer some tips to help you learn Vim more effectively. Enjoy!
- • 10 minutes read
Wizards Use Vim: Getting Started With Vim
Welcome to Wizards Use Vim! This is a preview chapter of my upcoming book Wizards Use Vim where you learn how to get started with Vim. Enjoy!
- • 8 minutes read
The Wizard Logs - Part I - The Adventures, Glory and Misfortunes of Writing Wizards Use Vim
Where I start a series of articles about the adventure of writing Wizards Use Vim. Within them I'll describe my creative process, how does it progress, any misfortunes that may occur and new ideas I have been having
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Wizards Use Vim! My New Book
Announcing my new book, giving some insider info and sharing a bunch of free versions of the book
- • 7 minutes read
8 Great Books To Improve Your Vim Fu
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought. In this article I recommend five books you can read to improve your vim skills
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2018 - • 2 minutes read
Barbaric Tip of The Week: The Vim Ways Advent Calendar is Awesome!
This barbaric tip of the week is about the amazing vim ways advent calendar which brings super high quality articles on vim every day for the month of December. And there's more!
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Vlog: Setting Up Your Vim To Be More Awesome At Vim
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought. In this part of the series I talk about how the very basics of setting up vim.
- • 49 minutes read
Vim: The 10 Things You Need To Know To Get Through The Dip
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought. In this article you'll learn the minimum set of commands and motions that will allow you to be super productive with vim and fly switftly through the first dip.
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Vlog: Exploring Vim
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought. This time in video format!
- • 14 minutes read
Setting Up Your Vim To Be More Awesome At Vim
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought. In this article you'll learn the very basics on how to configure and customize vim
- • 20 minutes read
Exploring Vim
I am in a journey to improve my vim skills. Join me and discover vim, an editor that lets you write code at the speed thought.
- • 4 minutes read
Wiki: Zsh, Oh-my-zsh and the shell
On setting up a nice terminal environment with zsh an oh-my-zsh
- • 12 minutes read
Wiki: Vim Plugins - Enhancing Your Vim Editor with Awesome Plugins
Use these plugins to enhance your editing experience with vim and make it behave like a moder IDE
- • 9 minutes read
Wiki: Tmux - Productive Mouse Free Development
Exploring Tmux the terminal multiplexer that helps you be more productive by giving you a vim-like experience when managing your terminals
- • 4 minutes read
Wiki: Neovim - Using modern vim
Upgrading your vim workflow and skills to use Neovim and all its new features
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2016 - • 1 minute read
Barbaric Tip of The Week: Configure eslint Super Quickly with eslint init
A barbaric tip of the week about eslint and how to configure it super quickly with eslint init
- • 15 minutes read
Start Using ES6/ES2015 In Your Project With Babel and Gulp
First issue of a guide to how to automate your front-end development workflow with gulp
- • 15 minutes read
Barbaric Development Toolbox: Automate Your Front-end Workflow with Gulp - Getting Started
First issue of a guide to how to automate your front-end development workflow with gulp
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2014 - • 12 minutes read
Barbaric Development Toolbox: Elevate Your Front-end Workflow With Yeoman
- • 27 minutes read
Wiki: Vim - The Mighty Text Editor that lets you edit text at the speed of thought
A collection of notes about using and setting up Vim the mighty text editor that lets you edit text at the speed of thought
- • 4 minutes read
5 things that I like about codealike and 2 that I don't
- • 5 minutes read
Boost Your Productivity with Codealike Insights. Barbaric Development Toolbox
- • 12 minutes read
2012