I posted recently about my nifty new script for creating new Jekyll posts quickly.

I've updated this now to open vim (you can tailor this to your preferred text editor) and edit the Markdown file you've just created. It will also jump down to the line where you start typing …

Been using vim for a few years but today finally learned the handy "delete inside brackets" command.

the command is di (delete inside) and then the characters you want to delete inside

so to delete the "parameter" in super(parameter) it's di(

and di" to delete a word or sentence …

We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.

— Markus Persson (@notch) March 25, 2014

hahaha.

And there's more on Notch's blog:

With Jekyll, there's a small overhead when writing a new post.

I wrote a simple Python script to handle generating the markdown file with the date and title in correct format on the filename, and the correct headers at the top of the file.

The script is in the root …

operating system: Ubuntu 14.10

window manager: i3

notifications: Dunst and dzen2

browser: vimb

terminal: rxvt-unicode

text editor: vim, gvim

email: mutt, offlineimap, mykolab

organiser/calendar: remind + wyrd

notes: vimwiki

pdf viewer: mupdf

instant messenger: telegram

irc: weechat

music: cmus

torrents: deluge-console

Indeed, ever since Snowden provided reporters with a trove of top secret documents, we've been subjected to all sorts of NSA word games. And the word "collect" has a very special definition, according to the Department of Defense (DoD). A 1982 procedures manual says: "information shall be considered as 'collected' …

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