How to set up auto-saving in Vim, from simple autocommands to plugins, and why you might not need any of it.

Comparing Vim's two main approaches to shell access -- suspending with Ctrl-Z and the built-in terminal emulator.

You don't need a massive .vimrc to be productive in Vim.

All the ways to add blank lines above or below the cursor in Vim

Ten CLI tools recommended by Claude Code itself, ranked by how much they'd boost its productivity.

A tour of all Vim paste commands in Normal and Insert mode, including lesser-known variants for indentation, cursor position, and raw pasting.

neocaml 0.1 is finally out! Almost a year after I announced the project, I’m happy to report that it has matured to the point where I feel comfortable calling it ready for action. Even better - neo...

It’s been over 4 years since I last updated the look of my blog - in late 2021 I switched to the popular at the time “Minimal Mistakes” theme. It served we well, but like so many Jekyll themes it g...

I’ve started using Mastodon over 3 years ago, in the aftermath of Twitter’s meltdown. At first I didn’t like it much, as there were a few things about it I found frustrating: You had to pick so...

I don’t know about you, but I’m not using Vim solely for programming. I also write documentation in it, plus most of my blog posts (like this one). When dealing with prose (regular text), it’s goo...