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Guides to the command line, editors and the tools you use every day.

• November 1, 2022 · 2 min read

  Sed by Example

  Sed stands for Stream EDitor. As its name implies, it manipulates and edits data files and streams that are piped into the program. In this post, we'll work through several examples.

• October 15, 2022 · 2 min read

  AWK by Example

  AWK is a versatile programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. In this post, we'll work through several examples.

• October 1, 2022 · 2 min read

  Grep by Example

  Grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. In this post, we'll work through several examples.

• September 1, 2022 · 3 min read

  Vim Movements Part II

  Welcome back! Buckle your seat belts and hold on to your hats; we're about to blast through a lot of information.

• July 1, 2022 · 3 min read

  Vim Movements Part I

  Take a moment to think about your favorite text editor. How often do you move the cursor around?

• May 3, 2022 · 2 min read

  Vim Plugins You'll Use Every Day

  Vim is an awesome editor; the efficiency and power of its key bindings are astounding.

• February 15, 2022 · 3 min read

  Top 50 Vim Configuration Options

  Few products rival Vim's flexibility, since it currently supports over 380 configuration options, not including the hundreds of possible key bindings.

• October 16, 2016 · 4 min read

  Introduction to NeoVim

  Vi was first released over 40 years ago. Since that time, it has been used by countless of people, quickly becoming the de facto standard Unix editor. Then, in 1991, Vim (Vi Improved) was released. Vim improved upon the ideas established by Vi, offering a slew of new features and tools.

• September 5, 2016 · 5 min read

  Facebook Flow Tutorial

  Flow is an open-source static type checker for Javascript, built by Facebook.

• August 28, 2016 · 3 min read

  Sublime Text 3 GIFS Cheat Sheet

  Sublime Text 3 has dozens of useful keyboard shortcuts. If you're looking for something in particular, here are categories to browse through.

• July 29, 2016 · 6 min read

  Affinity Designer Pen and Node Tools Tutorial

  As with any vector art program, you need to be comfortable with creating and manipulating Bézier curves. In Affinity Designer, the pen and node tools are the way to do that.

• July 23, 2016 · 6 min read

  Sketch Measure Plugin Tutorial

  By itself, Sketch does a good job of showing measurements when you're moving or resizing a layer, but if you want to know your measurements without moving anything, the Measure plugin is a great tool.

• July 11, 2016 · 2 min read

  Sublime Text 3 Plugins For Web Developers

  The right suite of plugins can make your time in any app far more productive. If you're a web developer working on Sublime Text 3, we strongly recommend taking a close look at these plugins.

• September 16, 2014 · 3 min read

  Division of Startup Equity For Pirates

  We've been thinking about equity this week — and the problems there in. Lets invent a hypothetical SEO firm called Pirates Incorporated. No... that's not techie enough. How about we call them, PyrateSpace. Better. Now we'll need a Founder / CEO to start. Shortly after that, other first hires join up (assuming they're not already there at the moment of inception.) They do what they can, for as long as they can. But inevitably, they'll need a full staff of developers and a staff to manage those developers.

• September 8, 2014 · 3 min read

  Croissants and Tech Disruptions: The Story of August Zang

  A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Baguettes and Thought Disruption. It was actually just mock click-bait about how reading articles with such titles are a waste of time. But the more I've been thinking about it the more I've realized two important things. First, I'm clearly hungry during my weekly blog writing time. And second, there's actually a lot we can learn about disruption from baguettes.

• September 2, 2014 · 1 min read

  How does shortcutFoo work? Part I: Learn Section

  To understand the Learn section we first have to talk about how a person forgets or remembers something.

• August 25, 2014 · 1 min read

  What a Baguette Can Teach You About Thought Leadership

  I'm curious. What did you think you would find on this page?

• August 18, 2014 · 1 min read

  Why the Reboot?

  Some people have asked, "Why the reboot?" Good question!

• June 13, 2014 · 3 min read

  Routines: What 2 Raw Eggs and Blocks of Work Can Do For You

  The thought of a daily routine can feel oppressive. Get up. Go to Work. Go Home. Go to Bed. Blah!

• May 14, 2014 · 3 min read

  Pre-Day Planning: Make Tomorrow More Productive Today

  There are a million blogs, posts and lists telling you how to make your day more productive, but in reality, day-of productivity practices mean you're already a day behind.

• June 4, 2013 · 1 min read

  Introducing Interval Training For Shortcuts

  Interval training uses spaced repetition to help you memorize shortcuts more efficiently.