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
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 Site | https://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/ |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecclews/ | |
GitLab | https://gitlab.com/alecthegeek |
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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
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
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.
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.
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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...)