ElongatedTowel

If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me.

I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At least that's probably why they are so incredibly popular.

I started writing my own solution but I realized once you get past a certain point it's actually pretty hard to design something like this. And with the amount of static site generators out there it wouldn't ever have a chance to compete no matter how good it would be.

I wish it was easy to just replace the Liquid templates completely. No template inheritance irks me the most.

Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.

Absolutely. I actually use a Firefox Addon to rebind some of the keys so I can zoom by pressing +, - and reset it with *.

Text is usually not the problem, but images and thumbnails are. I rather zoom in to see the thumbnail up close instead of browsing to every site that is linked via one.

My problems:

* Payment. Indirectly related to coding. Credit cards aren't common in my country and debit cards often are not visa or mastercard compatible. Fortunately prepaid credit cards are available at nearly every bank. With PayPal and a normal credit card tied to my account I just don't feel save carrying my wallet and laptop around.

* Spread of knowledge. I need to know so much to be able to choose the right tool in every situation. Right now I'm working on a blog/portfolio. I like to use a static site generator. Despite there beeing thousands of comparisons on the web it is hard to assess whether I'm able to build what's in my head. The one that seems capable enough is written in a language I don't speak. I probably have to write my own solution or write a patch in a language I can at least partly understand due to my knowledge of other languages.

With the advent of JavaScript it has become even harder. Backbone? Ember? Angular? Use existing knowledge to write my backend or switch there to JavaScript too? Meteor? Express? Which build system, which module system, async helpers or not? Promises? How to tie everything together?

You could spend more time figuring that out than you spend time writing code...

* Anonymity and my lack of creativity. You need an username for everything. I have yet to find a bookmarking service that just requires my mail adress and a password. And what's with all the twitter and facebook authentication crap sites starting to pop up that don't even allow you to sign it without it...

I'll better split this into two posts. My solutions:

First problem: Use ssh-agent to store the key.

Second problem: I have several scripts that start tmux sessions with every necessary program running. There are tools like tmuxinator to make the creation of presets easier. I run my own solution though as I need the flexibility.

Third problem: Something like Travis CI?

Fourth problem: Taking a look at all the shims, frameworks and helpers helped me get a general idea of what works and what doesn't on certain IE versions. I wouldn't worry much about the inbetweeners (IE7, IE9). Windows XP is the biggest reason why people use IE8 and if you're targeting that market it would be best to invest in a workflow that minimizes the differences and get as much knowledge about the lacking features of IE8 as possible.

I wonder how romantic relationships fit in. I don't have that many friends, but I have someone to talk to every day and I can be around my family.

But not having been in a relationship for many years, or rather, not ever having been in one that could be called serious has started to occupy a lot of my thinking time. It's something I'm reminded of everyday, like it was a disease.

It is often said that one has to be happy alone to be happy together. But might it be that even someone who is creating happiness for himself loses it because loneliness is its antagonist?

I smile when I walk trough the rain, I laugh when I hear a joke, I cry when I watch a touching movie. Isn't that a sign of happiness? Why does it feel so worthless if I'm not able to share it with someone I love?

Just an idea I haven't seen implemented yet:

Tabs have the advantage of beeing of variable width while spaces don't. But two or more consecutive spaces are rarely used for more than just aligning code. In theory the editor could render double the spaces (or rather a space with twice the width) for every amount of spaces higher than one, effectively doubling the indent.

No conversion (retabbing) would have to take place and therefore no hardcoding the value, which often breaks languages which don't like mixed tabs and spaces as the retabber might encounter three consecutive spaces and only convert two of them to a tab if told to do so.

With the development beeing rather slow as it is, wouldn't Vim benefit more from improving the whole community aspect as well as connectivity?

I still use Vim, but it is a bit annoying to see well done solutions I've been using for years fall behind new projects (Hello Firebug) that accomplish more in a year than others in 20 years.

If Sublime Text was Open Source and the vi mode better I'd switch in an instant. And probably a lot of people too.

I don't want to sound snobbish and arguing without helping isn't the way to go in the open source community, but man, all that stuff that has been in development for so long, thought of in dusty university rooms, presented in worn 70's summer dresses...

It reminds me of the old tailor couple around the corner. They wont go away and probably have a lot of years to life left. A handful of people still value their skill and love to pay more. But it's an old house that hasn't been painted for a long time. You will only find it in the yellow pages and even then you're having trouble to actually find the shop because it's tiny and the house looks like it's soon to be demolished. The machines they use are old and they are the only ones who actually know how to fix them. If they die the shop is gone for good.

The same goes trough my head when I look at Vim's homepage, or Molenaars. They look like someone died or moved on to a life without the internet.

They don't make the impression that anything of value can be found. But in some places there is, scrambled across different pages by different people of different generations. Modern technology hammered into old shells. A reminder here that scripts can also be found on git. A wiki hosted on wikia there. GUI builds for Mac here, Windows there, none using any new features of the OS. It still runs, but there isn't really any love put into it.

If people talk about Vim plugins I only hear how bad VimScript is. If I install one I get it on github, not the script repository because that's where the skeletons lie. The installer I use (and the only one up-to-date) is made by the cream developers. No clue what I'd even do if they stopped producing them.

Vim became the double-edge razor a long time ago. It's cheap, it just works and I can pass it down to my kids. All it needs is some learning. But it's only noteworthy because every other kind of razor produced today sucks in one way or another.

Took it just for fun as I'm not even American. Scoring a 93% match with The Inland North. They call it "Standard English straight out of the dictionary". I guess that's good as a non-native speaker...

Should probably polish my marry and merry.

If you publish anything that might concern anyone outside of your family you are already required to add an imprint. A complete address is required information.

A blog, a portfolio, bookmarks, dotfiles or even a simple memorial (if it's for someone outside of family) is enough.

I have not added one to anything I have ever put online nor do I intent to. I neither host in my country nor do I publish in my mother tongue. I think it is ridiculous to be forced to divulge information that allows people to knock on my door.

Classes: camelCase CONSTANTS: UPPERCASE variables_and_methods: lowercase_underscore

I think that's fine with PEP8. I'm not 100% on how to name things that can be abbreviated. I dislike using img, pwd, tmp or similar in my code, but js or id is fine and I often use db or app, but I don't feel happy about it for some reason.

Quite. But how much effort they put in their website and documentation is somehow important to me. Then again, Ruby projects always look glamorous while Haskell projects (just an example for an exotic language) look like some HTML document someone wrote 10 years ago on an university computer.

Ember.js in comparison has a certain glow to it. Especially with that weird mascot.

Am I the only one who dismissed AngularJS by the fact that they use a nearly unmodified bootstrap design?

Regarding the last statistic mentioned I found myself in a bit of a pickle myself. Maybe the question "Would you keep trying to have sex if your date says no?" is a rather complicated one.

It seems to me that the default answer is no. So if you ask someone you haven't gone that far yet after just a bit of kissing you would most likely get a no (which probably highly depends on the women and how she feels judged if she openly admits to her desires), but minutes later you might get a yes. A tug of war, a game. There is certainly a difference between a women laughingly saying "no", then taking her bra off anyway, and a women pushing herself in the corner screaming "no!", but what comes to mind if these men are asked? Really the latter?

I've had the former happen rather often, although my experience is limited to younger women. I would probably answer yes without hesitation, adding myself to the group of people this articles writer is dumbfounded by.

Reflecting on that I'm rather confused.

I didn't go to college either, I just had the chance to and didn't use it. With a degree everything would have been easier.

I'll write you soon.

Indeed I have, but subclinical which is why I never got any medication.

I know what freelancing means, but I have no idea what steps are there between me and the freelancing job.

Side projects would be great. I thought about apps, no good idea came up. Making money with porn and advertising, doubt there is still a niche.

Already gave up years ago. I feel like I'm staring at the Game Over screen trying to get my character up to the playing field again.

Maybe I won't take action. But talking to my friends about what I can do and what he thinks of me taking a job as a courier is more than I did before. Even going out of the house several days in a row is something I usually don't do. Even if it doesn't work, it's the longest streak of clarity I've ever had.

> What if I work a decent job and earn well, but live with my parents?

Independence is a great trait. That's the only reason I could think of.

1. Fear of rejection. Hard to meet someone if you're home all day. 2. Yes, never did. Alway required social interaction. Some days I was too anxious to even leave the house. 3. Love me for who I am sounds great, but relationships require a certain base

What direction do you think I should go? I played around with some Django, rewrote some of my stuff in Flask with SQLAlchemy. Bit JavaScript, bit CoffeeScript (gave up on that one, don't like it). Used SASS. A bit backbone.js (thought about writing apps, never came up with a good idea). Handlebar.js and Jinja2 in the mix.

The only thing on your list I know how to do would be to hack on opensource projects. Github account, pull some stuff, fix bugs.

Do employers value such work?

It sure is.

I must be the only one who finds that a bit... scary. But I don't keep old photo albums either.

Maybe it needs some kind of hate for your younger self to cut ties, cut hair, throw away old stuff and start a new life somewhere else, never looking back, while others reminisce.