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Move window done right

Move window to the rescue Overlapping windows are a bad invention. Frankly, the one UI that works are virtual desktops with non overlapping windows (e.g. window managers). Given, the world becomes...

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Second episode of UltiSnips Screencast

UltiSnips Screencast Episode 2 Second screencast is done and ready! If you have not yet seen the first, look over here. This was done under the maxim Done is better than perfect. I had more advanced...

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The Statistical View on Least Squares

Least Squares and Statistics Last time I talked about the beautiful linear Algebra interpretation of Least Squares which adds a wonderful geometric interpretation to the analytical footwork we had to...

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Third episode of UltiSnips Screencast

UltiSnips 2.0 and Screencast Episode 3 I just release UltiSnips 2.0 together with a short screencast to run you through the new features. 2.0 is a killer-feature release for me: Having normal mode...

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Fourth episode of UltiSnips Screencast

UltiSnips Screencast Episode 4 I got around doing the final episode of my little screencast series on UltiSnips. This time I talk about Python interpolation and give an example of a snippet that...

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Widelands Marathon Begins

My personal Widelands Marathon So, I finally handed in my PhD thesis. That does not mean that everything is said and done, there is still an oral examination, a 30 minutes talk and some demonstration...

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Text Layouting Status Report

Text Layouting Status Report So, it took me two weeks to finally get around to a status report, and Peter even had to request it forcefully. But I have not been idle in this time. Let's see. Pango?...

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Technology revamp on the blog

Technology revamp The technology on the blog bit rotted quite a bit lately. And of course it has not seen any update or new content in years, but that is an entirely different story. To make sure the...

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The ideal text editor

The Ideal Text Editor I am a Vim user and have been for more than 15 years now - with short stints to other editors from time to time. I also wrote a popular plugin for Vim - so I understand it's...

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Design for the ideal text editor.

Design for the ideal text editor Update: There is now a RFC for Swiboe defining this design in more detail. Comments welcome. Last time I discussed my thoughts on the ideal text editor. I also...

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