Alec  🇦🇺 👨‍💻

@alecthegeek@mstdn.social
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Old school software geek, atheist, and sexagenarian (because I'm sexy?).

Sometimes uses naughty words.

Be excellent to each other!
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Interested in #DevRel, #Docker, #Linux, #Python, #Go, Programming Tech, Tech education, #DocsAsCode, and #Stoicism. Currently learning how to integrate #Obsidian into my workflows.

Location: Bunurong Land, Melbourne, Australia

Pronouns: he/him (https://pronoun.is/he)

Contact details on my vanity site, no time wasters please!

Personal Sitehttps://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alecclews/
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/alecthegeek
GPGhttps://keyoxide.org/hkp/BF8AE8CC9DA3C1E3C5BD0CDD3FE7B98F9BBBFC7C

I you plan to attend my workshop on the #ValeTextLinter at #EverythingOpen 2025 please make sure you have Vale installed, Git would be very useful as well.

The examples have been tested with Vale 3.9

https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/63/

#eo2025 #EverythingOpen

Everything Open 2025 | Presentation: Upgrade your Docs-As-Code Foo with the Vale Text Linter

Everything Open 2025 - January 20-22 2025, Adelaide, SA, Australia

I'm presenting another "Staying Safe Online" course at the local community centre next year. If anyone knows a senior living in the area who would benefit they would be very welcome. Booking details on the poster and in the alt text
This is too close to the truth

Or as I call them "Wankers"

It's worth zooming in on the plaques around the door for maximum woo affect.

Today's #Neovim stroke #Vim tip is for me!

I learned Vi back in the day and never bothered tro grok Visual mode in Vim.

This is probably a mistake, especially when you demonstrate code in your editor. Visual highlighting can make it more obvious what you are doing.

Here is a place to start if you are new to Visual mode.

https://opensource.com/article/19/2/getting-started-vim-visual-mode

I'm sure all the #Neovim hipsters will think me rather silly for still editing like it's 1985

Getting started with Vim visual mode

Visual mode makes it easier to highlight and manipulate text in Vim.

Opensource.com

So

https://youtu.be/XvRQDsH0Yho?si=aRTtHG6TplOrgxFd

But yet here I am

PS this Chelsea on the Melbourne bay, not some overpriced London suburb

Just discovered GNU stow (https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) to manage my dotfiles

Good intro video here

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

More detailed explanation here (read this before you do anything)

https://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

Not only do I now manage my dotfiles, but also my personal scripts directory.

Stow - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

PSA follow up.

So my small business is now up and running. Probably not of much interest here as it's focused on the Mornington Peninsula Shire where I live.

I am providing an IT consulting business for domestic customers with limited IT skills or experience. Hoping to improve their quality of life in a small way.

http://alecthegeek.tech.

(image created on https://imgflip.com/)

Alec the Geek Technology

Alec the Geek Technolgy – a local consulting business

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In other news my AWK skills are really really rusty.

Back in the 80's I was a wiz ...

(and I am guessing a lot of you weren't even born then...)

Need to write an #AWK script (because sometimes #sed is not enough) and discovered my AWK book has been lost.

I wondered who borrowed it and never returned it....