How could I have lived for so long without knowing that I could set up my command line with vi key bindings? Well, for anyone else who uses vi and bash, here’s the secret…
Create ~/.inputrc
set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set output-meta on
set convert-meta off
add this to your .bashrc
set -o vi
Thanks Adam!
New research tells us what seems intuitive to me as a parent: play is important to learning. A recent New York Times article by Tara Parker-Pope reports that “play and down time may be as important to a child’s academic experience as reading, science and math, and that regular recess, fitness or nature time [...]
Sam Wan writes about preconditions for a playful experience or how to prepare to “get in the flow.” He highlights 3 related preconditions:
Memorizing a few basic rules and internalizing them into a mental model
Practiced ability to iterate quickly without conscious thought:feedback loop + muscle memory + internalized mental model
Immediate contextual information that fills in [...]
UNESCO reports that 2,500 languages are threatened with extinction. As reported, it is easy to have an immediate reaction of horror as the word extinction evokes a loss of a living species. In fact “languages are undergoing a global extinction crisis that greatly exceeds the pace of species extinction,” said David Harrison, a [...]
First taxicabs, then airports, now elavators. I was visiting an office building in San Francisco tonight and notice this infomercial in the elevator. it presented a mix of safety tips, news, weather and stockquotes. If I had stayed on till the 18th floor maybe I would have seen sports. I know I’m [...]
The movie, Minority Report, includes in its backdrop a complete set of near-future tech. While the film was released in 2002, it is based on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick. Based on the wikipedia differences between the story and film, I’d guess the whole eye-scanning commercial was a “fiction” invented [...]
I’ve been learning git lately and it seems much easier to use than subversion for branching and merging, but I still have yet to become adept at looking at a file history. It seems to be the way that a lot of projects are moving, especially for rails and open source projects; besides, all [...]
I had heard recently about mogulus which allows people to create their own live web video shows (crunchbase overview). I spent some time this morning wading through the interface to try creating a show. My test show on the “foobar” channel is about pie, featuring my son’s favorite pie videos. The content [...]
I’ve finally decided to make the leap and dive into the unknown waters of independent consulting. I’ve been at Laszlo for almost 6 years and Friday is my last day.
I’ve worked on some innovative and ground-breaking projects at Laszlo. OpenLaszlo, an open source AJAX framework, was one of the first platforms to introduce [...]