Category: General

Vim screen corruption with screen/tmux and matchparen.vim

I've been experiencing an irritating bug for a few weeks and I finally eliminated it by disabling matchparen.vim The bug happens when I'm using vim in an ssh session (to a Linux machine) with GNU Screen or tmux (on the server) in...

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Homebrew formula for bgrep

I was looking for a binary grep and after a bit of searching, I found one. I decided to make a Homebrew formula to make it easier to discover and install. Homebrew just pulled my change to add a formula for bgrep, a grep-like...

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Nice review of Wordly on findmysoft.com

From http://wordly.ios.findmysoft.com/: Wordly is a fun and easy to pick up word game that will put your vocabulary to the test and will entertain you. What we like Simple controls Nice graphics Entertaining word game Facebook...

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Random factoid: Glen Phillips’s “Drive By”

I've always loved the song. I have always sort of wondered if it was a true story. Well, here's the scoop: From http://www.thesuburbs.org.uk/Board/index.php?topic=6106.0:...

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Fix the oh-my-zsh ESC-. annoyance

I like oh-my-zsh a lot, except that it rebinds ESC-. to do "..\n" and that is irritating as I really like the default of it inserting the last word from the previous command. Here's how to get it back: bindkey '\e.'...

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My coderwall

For a previous Xbox 360 achievement junkie, this is pretty nifty. My coderwall

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How to have a buildout config that extends another buildout config

Buildout is a pretty useful tool, but the documentation is somewhat lacking. I needed to have specialized buildouts for dev and staging that extend a more general buildout. I couldn't find this in the buildout docs, but I found...