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The book "Bike, Scooter, and Chopper Projects for the Evil Genius" by Brad Graham is a pretty fun read around projects for and with bike frames. Loads of pictures too, if you're ju…

I don't know of a plugin, but you can sorta do something kinda like the thing ish if you squint and cross your fingers... You can perform actual in-place calculations by using the expression regi…

There were a bunch of insightful comments when the wikipedia articles was discussed here last year¹. Some about Oberon in particular, and some about the surrounding ecosystem and history. ¹ https:&#…

> the desktop background is called the "backdrop" Hmm, non-British AmigaOS also used backdrop¹. Was that perhaps the common name back then? Plus, you can experience /some/ of t…

And a few years before that to 1840, people used to perform similar tricks with mail. Prior to the introduction of postage stamps mail was paid on delivery¹, so you could send messages to friends or …

"icesound - play audio files when interesting GUI events happen". The full man page list all the details¹. Note that it is optional too, you don't have to enable MovieOS swooshing and…

Dorian Lynskey's Orwell biography The Ministry of Truth spends a chunk of its time on interactions between Huxley, Wells and Orwell. I found much of that fascinating, picturing these esteemed au…

You can add your own binding for e or perhaps some other key: [tig "bind"] generic = e !script %(file) With script containing something like: cd `dirname $1` vim `base…

It uses whatever git's core.editor option tells it to, and supports setting $GIT_EDITOR to override it. I rely on that from time to time instead of having to write a bunch of different aliases i…

> relative lines might also be worth checking out: "set relativenumber". I really like the behaviour of `set number relativenumber`, where it shows me my actual line number of the current…

> I hit :w so reflexively and regularly in working files that swap files only occasionally saves my butt I'm definitely one of those people too, and while I don't disable swap files I do …

Like many things in vim it depends on whether you wish to write it ;) You can define your own popup(:h bexpr) however you feel, including per-filetype or buffer. Instead of simply operating on the va…

Even without resorting to external tools the expression register(:h @=) can act as a surprisingly good builtin calculator, and there is a moderately large builtin math library(:h functions). Like all …

Drew Neil's awesome vimcasts¹ are available, while no longer getting updates they'll still be pretty useful. Also a /big/ fan of his Modern Vim book², even after literal years of …

Until reading through TFA, I hadn't noticed just how mainstream QR codes seem to have become. In my head I was still kind of thinking of Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes¹. ¹ https:/&#x…

FWIW, in mutt tapping # on a message that should have been a new thread will make it such. And you can rejoin messages where people sent a new mail instead of a reply with &. Things like this, …

And birds to gather fish¹. Can't seem to find a good video of the cormorants in action, but the article is quite good. ¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant_fishing …

Ologies has an interesting episode on the topic too¹. Plus, a general recommendation for the podcast, many of the episodes are lovingly holding the balance on weird and interesting. ¹ https:/&#…

And for the sake of completeness, it is not just for man pages either. vim simply calls 'keywordprg' with the word under the cursor, so you can use whatever you feel like. Open a browser t…

Thanks Drew, and peterjsanchez too. BTW, I think the documentation already seems nice and approachable. From your send-email helper site right through to the sr.ht docs themselves. Much appreciated. …

Any one have personal experiences on self hosting an instance that they wish to share? I keep meaning to look in to it a bit more, but always seem to end up nudging it down the list.