When I administer mail servers, I often use the aliases functionality to set up email groups and forwards. I find it very convenient to have everything in a single file. One thing that I don't like is keeping all the names in alphabetical order. While doing so might seeem like something from the …

Vimdiff is an amazing tool to work with file differences and it particuarly suitable for use when examining differences between git revisions. There is a command built in to git that is called git-difftool. It allows you to use an external tool to look at your diffs this tip just shows how I like …

A super quick Vim tip today courtesy of Patrick R. McDonald. I was looking for a nice way to have Vim open up files that I had GPGed. That is how I store passwords and its a faff and potentially insecure to decrypt, edit and resave. Nicer to have Vim open your GPG file directly. Patrick’s s …

I’m a huge fan of the Vimperator Firefox plugin. It works just like you'd want it to and doesn't break much. Well, it breaks one useful thing, which is the almost universal ctrl-c/ctrl-v cut and paste shortcuts. So, I was well chuffed to find a Vimperator cut and paste tip on superuser. I̵ …

This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left’s ’master’ narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned …

This is the minimalistest of minimalist web casts, just to show off the awesomeness of a couple of vim modules for quick html h4x0ring. Specifically Surround and snipMate. w00t! …

Here's a neat little trick for people who have a *nix setup, vim and lynx browser. I’ve remapped my F8 Key to use lynx to dump the nicely formatted source of a web page in a new window. Useful for testing if your site is working. In my .vimrc I added the following lines: split at the bot …