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benvds··on Victor Mono Typeface
I've been using it for months and I love everything about it. Thanks Rubjo!
benvds··on Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
Played around with a bit. In my experience compared to a configured vim:

- once you have your local language servers available it works quite nicely out of the box. syntax highlighting, file finder, lsp navigation, formatting, etc. just works

- its fast

- i really like having the order of selection->action instead of action->movement

- im still missing some features like a navigation tree and a quickfix list or something to do project wide find/replace.

benvds··on 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats
I've been a mac user for 12 years, have my current retina macbook for 4 years, consider myself a pro user and want to buy a new "mobile computer". I'm no longer considering buying an apple macbook. OS X is great but with these prices I can no longer validate it's value anymore and looking into buying an xps.
benvds··on My time with Rails is up
For me as well. It becomes unresponsive so I can't even debug why it's so slow.
benvds··on Why .NET?
Were doing a coupling to a soap backend. It has been 7 years since I last did .NET and now I've decided to never go back.
benvds··on Flexbox Adventures
This makes doing layouts in css so much easier. I can't wait until we can drop al the grid frameworks and use this instead.

Another good explanation on CSS-Tricks: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

benvds··on Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
i drew a penis and got the "male sign" :-)
benvds··on Roda – A new Ruby web framework
I'm very fond of his sequel gem. The source is really great just to browse through and learn from.
benvds··on Common Species Of Code
A CS 101 student apparently writes the most readable code.
benvds··on Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
And when including timings you could easily calculate and optimize build orders.
benvds··on Want good programmers? Then pay them.
As a 28 year old, developing part-time since 15, full-time since 22, and always self-learning in my own time i've seen lots of people in other industries with just 4 years full-time experience, not self-learning, doing nothing in their own free time getting offered a lot more for job positions. The strange thing is, often these people have trouble finding work as most industries aren't as easy as ours. I guess supply and demand is just skewed in the jobmarket. I also guess it-work is under appreciated but it's all our own fault. B.t.w. I started as a freelancer so I have only myself to blame for my income.
benvds··on Free beautiful UI elements for developers
I'm never that enthusiastic about these kinds of ui element designs. Maybe it works in flash but the user experience when translated to html/css/js is really hard to get right. Just look how much effort bootstrap is taking.

The icons etc. are great though.