undo and redo in vim

2019-09-17

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~1 min read

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125 words

Sometimes Vim is simultaneously impossible opaque and extraordinarily intuitive. That’s the case with the undo and redo. To undo the last…

display: none vs visibility: hidden

2019-09-16

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~1 min read

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161 words

When hiding elements on the client, there are multiple options. Two of the most common are through the selective toggling ofCSS properties…

compression basics: zip, tar, rar, and gz

2019-09-15

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~5 min read

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853 words

What are the differences between a , , ., and ? It turns out it’s both a lot and a little. Some basics: represents a compressed archive of…

rem vs em

2019-09-14

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~1 min read

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113 words

Jeremy Church put together a nice little side by side comparison of REM and Em (and PX).1 Both REM and EM are relative units. The difference…

an anniversary of sorts

2019-09-11

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~4 min read

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604 words

This weekend was an anniversary of sorts for me. Exactly one year ago Saturday was my last day in a job and career I’d been building since…

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