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  1. The Android Problem

    I have a somewhat mixed history with smartphones. Initially, I didn't see the point in them at all and stuck with my flip-phone until sometime around 2011, my hesitation being mostly due to power concerns and not wanting my GPS, phone, calendar, and audio player running out of battery all …

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  2. Fixing Vim Color Errors in Tmux

    As it is for many, tmux is an irreplaceable part of my workflow, however, anyone who has a 256color color scheme in vim is familiar with this picture:

    Background bleeding in tmux

    Thankfully, this is easily fixed with a simple modification to your vimrc.

    I'm not exactly sure why the following snippet fixes this …

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  3. Making Smarter Ads

    Advertisements make the world wide web as we know it possible. This is a truth that most don't like to hear, however, don't mistake this sentiment as judgement for using an ad-blocker. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to use one, ranging from protecting your system from malicious code, to …

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  4. Effectively Editing Markdown Files in Vim

    Writing markdown is not like writing code, or even HTML at times. Markdown is almost exclusively plain English and has very few tags and very little syntax, unlike HTML and all other programming languages. This puts Markdown in a very strange place, since it cannot be edited effectively in a …

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  5. Some Useful Vim Commands

    Despite many other options being available, I still use Vim daily for various tasks from taking notes to writing this post. However, I'll admit that Vim has a lot of strange and somewhat arbitrary key combinations which are quite useful. I'm going to list a few which I use daily …

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  6. My Current Keyboard

    As someone who spends a lot of time on their computer I also, by extension, spend a lot of time with my keyboard. As such, I have come to actually be very picky about my peripherals and I don't settle for a cheap or sub-par keyboard anymore. Before I come …

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  7. Why I Use Vivaldi

    About 10 years ago, I made the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox. The internet has gone through some changes since then, but, I stuck with Firefox as my primary browser for the past 10 years. However, there is a new kid on the block, Vivaldi. It's an interesting little …

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  8. Windows 10 Desktops

    Windows 10 is a little over a year old now with two major updates already in the hands of consumers. Today, I'd like to talk about one of the lesser known features which might have been added in an update, or it might have been a feature since launch. Either …

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  9. In Defense of Removing the Headphone Jack

    Apple recently made the news once again with the reveal of the iPhone 7. Along with the usual improvements and iterations one would expect from the yearly iOS update, there was one major elephant in the room: Apple confirmed rumors that they were removing the decades old 3.5mm audio …

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