Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. (more…)

I spend at least 10 hours a day using vim. I’m not going to explain, here, why it’s such a good text editor. You can look it up. Today I’m going to describe a terrible thing that vim does in its default configuration. At the end, I’ll show you how to chan... (more…)

Vim users find the h, j, k, l keys useful for navigating documents without a mouse. This tip shows some techniques for configuring vi-like key bindings in web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Chromium. Vimperator is an open source extension for Mozill... (more…)

One of the things I love about working in IT is that you can often learn on the go. It’s possible to learn something so quickly during the job, that you can come in with no experience at all, and become productive enough to add value to a project in a sma... (more…)

And no, it is not because I cannot figure out how to close it. (more…)