tarkin2

When I'm interesting in something (say vim) and I search then I get a tonne of tech tutorial websites. These are useful, certainly. But I often want tech blogs of actual /people/. Not CEO-focused tutorial websites aimed…

I've recently found VS Code very slow - hangs for about 10 seconds - when using the vi bindings on OS X. I'm not sure if this is VS Code itself, vi plugin or some OS X hiccup. I'm tempted to use vim again. But there are…

After reading Rob Pike's notes on function pointers "I argue that clear use of function pointers is the heart of object-oriented programming. Given a set of operations you want to perform on data, and a set of data…

I've learnt plenty of programming languages, from C to Java to Squeak to Haskell to Lisp, but I have not made as many 'finished' programs as I'd like. I've found, despite knowing and using plenty of programming…

I have an problem with tradional unix text-editors--vim and emacs for example--and I'd like not to have that problem with future text editors you or others may create. The crux of this problem comes down to navigation…