Shape Shed

I switched from Jekyll -> own rolled Node.js generator -> Hugo. For me it is better because of simplicity and speed. I use it to power a 400 page blog (https://shapeshed.com/) with this source code (https://github.com/shapeshed/shapeshed.com). I used Jekyll in a small organisation and it meant everyone needed a working Ruby environment This caused much pain across platforms. Hugo ships a single binary for multiple platforms so setup is far simpler. It is also amazingly fast and there have been major performance improvements in 0.17 too (https://gohugo.io/meta/release-notes/). I love it!

You can open directories in Vim, with netrw which is usually there by default: https://shapeshed.com/vim-netrw/#netrw---the-unloved-directory-browser

> FWIW, I intentionally keep IE 6 on my work machine (not a big corp, but we sell to them) for testing Why not use Microsoft's ie VPC images? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-9… "In order to help web designers and web developers test their websites in older versions of Internet Explorer, we've provided the following VHD with Windows set up with the specified version of Internet Explorer. The images are patched with the latest security updates and are otherwise clean installs of the operating system with very few modifications." Also works with VirtualBox on linux / mac: http://shapeshed.com/journal/testing_with_ie6_ie7_and_ie8_on_virtualbo… You do not even need a Windows license: "Note: You may be required to activate the OS as the product key has been deactivated. This is the expected behavior. The VHDs will not pass genuine validation. Immediately after you start the Windows 7 or Windows Vista images they will request to be activated. You can cancel the request and it will login to the desktop. You can activate up to two “rearms” (type slmgr –rearm at the command prompt) which will extend the trial for another 30 days each time OR simply shutdown the VPC image and discard the changes you’ve made from undo disks to reset the image back to its initial state. By doing either of these methods, you can technically have a base image which never expires although you will never be able to permanently save any…

That's great! There's nothing wrong with that. However, "semantic elements" became popular shortly after the push for the "semantic web" which was entirely based around making the web easier to process for machines. Many of the original sources all talk about how it's easier to digest for humans too, but that's just a happy byproduct. https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html https://www.lassila.org/publications/2001/SciAm.pdf https://informationr.net/ir/7-4/paper134.html https://jonchristopher.us/blog/a-semantic-breakdown-of-restaurant-menu… https://shapeshed.com/the-importance-of-semantic-markup/ https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/ https://microformats.org/wiki/posh

This isn’t neovim specific but this was one of the more delightful and impactful discoveries https://shapeshed.com/vim-netrw/ Configuring netrw right and having my vimrc load a side pane with it on load, combined with configuring my tab key to cycle between windows... Perfect.

not sure what's substantially different from e.g. (2011) http://shapeshed.com/creating-a-basic-site-with-node-and-express/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-9… You may also want to check out http://shapeshed.com/journal/testing_with_ie6_ie7_and_ie8_on_virtualbo… if you wish to use virtualbox rather than paying for virtual PC

GIMP has supported editing all components of a path, converting to a selection, moving the entire path, and adjusting the handles, for a while. If I remember correctly, it was buggy until around GIMP 1.2. The second half of the video on this page, after the "Direct Select" tool is chosen at 0:16, is completely doable in The GIMP. http://shapeshed.com/journal/photoshop_101_path_and_direct_selection_t…

Watch this three minute video or view the concise notes below it for some very nice tips on handling buffers. http://vimcasts.org/episodes/working-with-buffers/ > You can quickly jump between the active buffer and the alternate buffer using the command <CTRL-^>. Pressing it again takes you back to where you were before. If you don't like the <CTRL-^> command for this, you could map it to something else, such as the tab key, with a line in your .vimrc: nnoremap <TAB> <C-^> ---- > There's no single de-facto manager that's used by 90% of all vimmers. Most recently updated plugins work with each of the managers. I use a handful of plugins with Pathogen, but the same plugins could be used with another manager. However, the latest release of Vim now includes a built in plugin system, does that satisfy your need to have one blessed version? https://shapeshed.com/vim-packages/ ---- > 20 different buffer navigations Keep in mind, all these commands can be shortened to the smallest unique prefix. So with `:bn` and `:bp` you can go forward and backward. But if you don't like typing three characters, just sacrifice something else by remapping it in your .vimrc! ---- > toggling between two open files, a pretty common use case When I am working on two files at once, I'll usually put them both up at the same time. If I have "a.txt" open and I also want to work on "b.txt" I can type `:vsp b.txt" and now I have them up side-by-side. I can switch between them with…