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Vim Screencast -- IDE-like Refactors, Snippets, Tests, Hover Documentation, Commenting, and Git

Semicolon&Sons — Sun, 10 May 2020 14:57:14 +0000

This episode showcases a grab-bag of features that developers accustomed to IDEs will appreciate in vim, such as how to execute the current file from within the editor, how to run tests related to the current function, how to integrate with git source control to stage and commit files, how to write and use code snippets, how to do syntax-aware commenting and uncommenting, and how to avail of automatic project-wide method name refactors using the LSP.

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The 6 Hidden Costs of Software Dependencies

Semicolon&Sons — Sun, 03 May 2020 13:18:49 +0000

The ease of running npm install x masks the long-term costs of including software dependencies. In this episode, I go through my personal worst-of situations with the Ruby and JavaScript dependencies of Oxbridge Notes over a 10-year timeframe. I talk about dependency hell, dependency deprecation/abandonment, how one dependency begets another, and how over-reliance of dependencies rob you of your ability to familiarize yourself with programming fundamentals, the stuff that doesn't change out from under your feet from year to year.

File Navigation in Vim — LSP, CTags, References, Definitions, and more.

Semicolon&Sons — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:59:50 +0000

I created a screencast detailing various workflows for navigating between files using a well-equipped modern Vim setup on my primary development machine.

What's demonstrated works (at the very least) for development in JavaScript, Ruby, and Python

https://www.semicolonandsons.com/episode/Fluent-File-Navigation

Vim's Versatile CLI - pipes, signals, and flags

Semicolon&Sons — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:49:44 +0000

Vim is a command-line tool and therefore comes with all the modular conveniences this entails - such as the ability to respond to signals, to be opened with special flags, or receive input from a pipe. Learn how to do all this and more in this screencast.

Guided Code Tour of a 10-year old, 10k+ LOC, Rails/JS Web Business

Semicolon&Sons — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:42:01 +0000

Don't build something no-one wants. Examples of good and bad MVPs.

Semicolon&Sons — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:15:18 +0000

[video] Advanced Workflows in Vim

Semicolon&Sons — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:22:36 +0000

I got in an argument with my younger brother, also a programmer, about why on earth I use Vim when there are so many good IDEs. That prompted me to create some "I told you so" videos showing what the editor can do when properly kitted out.

In this video, I demo editing 40 files at once with a macro combined with argdo, creating a temporary mapping for working with audio data, and more.