Using Shared SSH Connections for a Snappy Netrw Experience

If you're a Vim user like me, you may know of a little plugin called netrw. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it's a plugin that allows you to transparently edit remote files from within Vim. Instead of scp'ing a file over, editing it, and scp'ing it back, you can just do something like this:

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Posted on 2011-09-16

Embedding Lua and debug.debug

Trivia time: if you're using Vim with Lua support compiled in, what happens if you run the following (don't do this on an instance of Vim with any real work on it):

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Posted on 2011-09-09

Adding Remote Shortcuts to Git

If you're like me, chances are you're a Git user that uses a small set of hosts for repositories very frequently. The example I'll use here is GitHub.

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Posted on 2011-08-25

Adding DuckDuckGo as an Android Browser Search Engine

A little while ago, I switched to DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine. However, the default browser on Android only offers me three choices: Bing, Yahoo, and Google. I figured that since the browser component of Android is open source, it shouldn't be too hard to add DuckDuckGo to the mix. So here's how I did it.

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Posted on 2011-03-03

Getting Started With Mojolicious

I'm undertaking a new project with some friends, and I've decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to learn some new things. More specifically, I'd like to learn a Perl web framework other than Catalyst (which I use at work), and I'd like to become more familiar with PostgreSQL, since I also use MySQL at work and I've heard so many good things about Postgres. I'm finding the latter a lot of fun to work with, especially coming from MySQL (I have a saying at work: If you use the phrases 'I assume' and 'MySQL' in the same sentence, you're likely wrong).

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Posted on 2011-02-28