Author Archives: selah

About selah

Programmer at Prominence Advisors. Also dabbling musician. Also cycling commuter.

Change Little Word, Change

I’m back (to blogging) and aroused from my meat coma with some vim wisdom to share (vi-sdom?). Here a handy mapping to make your day better. Of course you know that cw (mnemonically “change word”) replaces from the cursor to … Continue reading

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Black-Listed

My Flash logger happend upon some output from an ad scanner at huffingtonpost.com. Without further ado, here’s the black list: whore, slut, lapdance, porno, porn, weed, kill, attack, rape, cock, dick, homo, gay, fraud, gambling, slavery, holocaust, racial, murder, killing, … Continue reading

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Breakfast Suicides

Remember suicide at the soda fountain? A similar technique can be used when you’re almost out of all your cereal. The results are unexpected and sometimes a bit confusing in texture and flavor. But really, not bad.

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Richard Stallman speaks at the U of MN

Saw Stallman tonight. Whatever else, one must appreciate the man’s dedication. He certainly takes a more hard-line approach to his free software diet than most of us would find convenient, but you must understand that convenience is absolutely not at … Continue reading

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TextMate at Midnight

Crafted with love is the Midnight theme for TextMate. Get it here.

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TextMate, meet Ctags.

So check it: You have a huge code base and want to be able to move around it quick like. TM Ctags does the trick nicely. Use it suchwise: ⌥⌘P creates a tags file for your project ⌃] jumps to … Continue reading

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Irony, lol.

McCain learns that the laws he passes have real world repercussions. I grin smugly. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/youtube-to-mcca.html

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