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Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarell Yesterday I wrote that I think Emacs is currently experiencing its (second) Golden Age.1 Today I’ll expand on this and I’ll offer my perspective

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. One of the problems newcomers to Ruby experience is that there are often quite a few ways to do same thing. For instance - you can obtain the number of items in Enumerable objects (instances of classes using the Enumerable mixin, which would often be collec

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Recently we discussed how you can use String#gsub with a block. Today we’ll examine another somewhat unknown feature of the gsub method - the ability to supply a replacement hash as the second argument (which is normally a string). If the replacement argume

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. String#gsub is one of the most used Ruby methods in the wild. Just about every Ruby programmer knows about the method and uses it fairly regularly. Here’s a quick refresher of the typical gsub usage: # using string match 'John Wayne'.gsub('John', 'Bruce') =

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Most Rubyists know they can use literals, classes, ranges and regular expressions in the when branches of a case expression:

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. For better or for worse Perl had significant influence over Ruby’s initial design. A lot of things were directly borrowed from Perl, but over the years the Ruby community rejected most of the Perlisms. In this article I’ll go over most of the Perl legacy wh

zoxide: tips and tricks 1 minute read zoxide is a smart and fast alternative to cd that learns your directory usage patterns and allows you to jump to directories quickly. It’s one of my favorite... How to Fish: Moving Between Recent Directories 1 minute read I love Fish, because it makes a lot of common everyday tasks easier and more convenient. One such task is moving (switching) between folders

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Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude Emacs is slowly, but firmly moving in the right direction with Emacs 24. A lot of new important features are coming, the release date is nearing, but there is something worrisome on the otherwise bright Emacs horizon. It’s a remnant from the Dark Em

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude Last month I’ve blogged about the exciting things are coming up in Emacs 24. What I failed to mention originally is that although Emacs 24 is slated for a Spring 2012 (tentatively) release there is no real reason not to start using it now. You shoul

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude If there is something that people love as much as tweaking their editing configurations it’s probably the selection of color themes. A good color theme can make your work much more pleasant and a bad one that literally impair your vision. It’s a fac

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude Let’s face it - although a vanilla Emacs installation is quite powerful almost nobody is using Emacs without a pile of add-ons. And managing those add-ons is quite frankly a pain in the ass. Traditional options included installing Emacs add-ons via

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude Anyone who’s ever dabbled in the dark art that is Emacs knows that chances are you’ll be overwhelmed before you start making sense of Emacs’ unique view of the world. There is just too much information out there… There are many great Emacs resources

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude Often in comparisons between Django and Rails, one of the Django advantages being cited is the automatic admin interface you get for free out-of-the-box there. I guess a lot of people don’t know that there are similar solutions for Rails, although t

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. Prelude If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is no