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Feb 08

Apps that use Vi shortcut keys

I’m a big fan of Vi/Vim and I love to see apps utilizing vim-like keyboard shortcuts. I thought I would start a list of them:

Gmail

The grand-daddy of web-apps, Gmail uses j/k for up and down and has a slew of other Vim-inspired shortcuts.

The Hit List

The Hit List is a powerful todo app and also uses the familiar j/k for up and down.

Twitter

Again the familiar j/k up and down. I don’t think there is anything more hidden in this other than the up and down navigation.

Reeder

j/k up and down

I’m sure there are more out there. matt@kizmeta.com or @mattpetty on Twitter and I’ll add to this list.

Dec 18

Temporary vim background color

I use this little script to set a a temporary background color to differentiate vim sessions/projects at a glance.

Oct 22

Spinach -

Spinach, a gherkin based test framework like cucumber but without the Regex madness.

https://github.com/codegram/spinach

Aug 23

Dropzone and Github Gist

One of the tools I use frequently in my workflow is Dropzone.

Dropzone hacks the dock to give you a pop over menu that is easily accessed. The functionality it provides comes down to two things:

A quick way to access icons you don’t want cluttering up the dock itself and -
Drag and drop scripts for things such as quick uploads to Cloud app, Flickr, Dropbox, and folders on your local machine.

Here’s a screencast of how you can use Dropzone to turn highlighted text into a Gist:

It’s worth it at the regular price of $14 bucks anyway, but if you are reading this today (2011-08-23) then go get Dropzone for a 30% discount ($9.79) at Mupromo.

Newest Robohash Family Member

A continuation of a previous post, here is the Robohash for baby Ayla:

Ayla

http://robohash.org/ayla.png

Aug 22

“Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.” — http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/