Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3d
- ack
- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
/vim
- 24.09.19 Sorting a CSV File With Vim
This is just a quickie but I wanted to make a note as it can come in handy. I had a csv file detailing population density for various …
- 01.09.19 What the Ack! Multi-file Find and Replace with Vim and Ack
Occasionally it's handy to be able to do a find and replace across multiple files, or even insert something new across many files. Using …
- 30.08.19 The Path of Least Resistance: Using Vim Templates
My Kirby powered website uses a few different templates depending on the type of content. I have one for detailing a project, one for news, …
- 06.05.19 Ultisnips snippet to quickly create Markdown formatted links using content from …
When I'm writing a blog post or putting together some other article on my site, I often need to create links to content on the web. I do …
- 01.03.19 Hail to the g
The more I dig into Vim the more I discover the power of the most simple commands and key combinations. One of those is the use of the g …
- 13.12.18 Reversing Selected Lines in Vim
This was something I needed to do recently, having listed some events on my site but then later realising they were in the reverse order of …
- 20.11.18 Using Vimwiki as a simple, synced, note taking system
For many years I've been using Evernote to store notes, code snippets, found things from the web and a whole lot of other stuff. I like it, …
- 02.08.18 Vim File Navigation and Bookmarking with NETRW
When I first started using Vim I read a lot about how I should install a plugin called NerdTree to enable a project drawer type file …
- 24.07.18 Automatic Creation of .gitignore using the Command Line and Vim
I recently chanced upon a great little service called gitignore.io which provides an easy way to make .gitignore files for pretty much any …
- 21.05.18 Simple Header File Switching in Vim
I've recently been working on a project in OpenFrameworks which uses .cpp and their associated header (.h) files. I wanted to find a way to …
- 21.05.18 My Fave Vim Colour Scheme
Colour schemes in coding IDEs are a very personal thing. For a long time I favoured Gruvbox, which I found really pleasant to work with. …
- 17.05.18 My Most Used Day-to-Day Vim Features
When you first starting using Vim as your default editor the amount of things to learn can be overwhelming. I've been using Vim for about a …
- 16.05.18 Deleting Thousands of Lines not Containing a Pattern with Vim
Here's a small demonstration of why I love Vim so much — editing large amounts of data such as csv and tsv files. Let's say I have a fairly …
- 16.05.18 Sync Vim Configuration using Dropbox
My day-to-day coding machine is my iMac which over the years I've setup with my perfect (for me) Vim configuration. When I'm out on the …
- 28.03.18 Boiler Plate Template for Processing
When I start a new Processing project I always start from the same base template. This template features some core things that I pretty …
- 10.03.18 Goodbye XCode, Hello Vim and OpenFrameworks
Since moving to Vim over a year ago for all my coding, using another code editor is always a chore. Such is the case using Xcode when …
- 24.02.18 Creating ctags for Processing .pde files for use in Vim
Ctags generate a file of language objects — such as method names and vars — so they can then be used and located inside a text editor such …
- 31.01.18 Switching to Vim
Last year I made a decision to switch to Vim for all my coding and text editing. Many times before I’ve tried Vim but always ended up …