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Translating Sublime Text into Vim

Intro Coming from a Windows world getting into Vim, to me is almost exactly like the struggles I had learning French or Dutch. I spent 10 years learning French growing up and I can’t speak a proper...

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What if the trees were the real angels?

I’ve re-posted this here: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/what-if-the-trees-were-the-real-angels/ What if the trees were the real angels? This is what I sat to think looking at this...

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Fumblings about Compassion

“One with compassion is kind even when angryone without compassion will kill as he smiles.”Shabkar – Tibetan poet I’ve re-posted this here now:...

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‘Science is not for scientists, but for the world’

This is an article from a Belgian magazine, Knack – all copyright is theirs. I’m just posting it here, because Hannah Arendt (“The banality of evil“) is a fascinating person and I think this article...

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A Happy Illustrated Guide to a PhD

Toeholds Diego posted a link to Matt Might’s article “The Illustrated Guide to a PhD“, which was funny, sad, and many would think is accurate.  Since I feel optimistic today, I would like to extend on...

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VSCode debugging

What I don’t think a lot of VSCode users are used to is constantly living with the debugger turned on. Most web devs grew up in a world without Visual Studio, so console.log is the norm. However...

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Javascript REPL

I really like the simple ‘console’ REPL that you have in a browser debug tools. I wanted to recreate this in VS Code. tl;dr Debug console It turns out after lots of experimenting this can be also done...

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VSCode Neovim setup

I recently switched over to using the vscode-neovim extension for VSCode. What wasn’t obvious though was how to get a plugin manager and plugins / vim customisations working. I’ll add here quickly my...

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Composable

What does it mean to say that something is composable in JavaScript? These are some notes after watching the funfunfunction Promises video. Callbacks are not composable, but Promises are. My simple...

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Why functional programming?

This is a post to discuss the benefits of functional programming (FP) for those who don’t use functional programming and I guess most relevant for full stack developers – you love your JavaScript and...

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