Recently I’ve been wondering how to name Ruby methods that have predicate looking names (e.g. foo?), but don’t behave like predicates - namely they return other values besides the canonical true an...

Here’s another small Vim tip - how to deal with typos quickly. Generally, most people do something along those lines: enable :spell (the built-in spell-checking) use [s and ]s to move between...

One of my pet peeves with Vim is that by default the buffer splitting behaves a bit weird: horizontal splits (:split) appear on top vertical splits (:vsplit) appear on the left That’s exact...

When I started to play with OCaml I was kind of surprised that there was no id (identity) function that was available out-of-box (in Stdlib module, that’s auto-opened). A quick search lead me to th...

Today I’m going to cover a very basic topic - conversions between OCaml’s primary numeric types int and float. I guess most of you are wondering if such a basic topic deserves a special treatment, ...

zoxide is a smart and fast alternative to cd that learns your directory usage patterns and allows you to jump to directories quickly. It’s one of my favorite command-line tools and it’s an essentia...

I love Fish, because it makes a lot of common everyday tasks easier and more convenient. One such task is moving (switching) between folders you’ve visited recently. In my case I often jump between...

ESC (Escape) is one of the most central key in the world of Vim. It takes you from Insert mode to Normal mode and it also serves to interrupt operations in progress in Vim. You’ll be using it a lot...

In Vim (and many other editors) we interact with the contents of files via the “file buffer” abstraction. Basically, that’s the in-memory representation of a file within a text editor, that occasio...

One of the most important aspects of effective editing is to be able to quickly move where you want to go in a buffer - e.g. to a specific line, paragraph, character, word, etc. When it comes to n...