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zehemeron Why is DNS still hard to learn?

> As a user of the "--color" flag for the `ip` command, I'd love to see tools like dig produce more modern output

https://github.com/ogham/dog is pretty good in that regard

zehemeron Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse

If you're already using IdeaVim there's https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13360-ideavim-easymotio..., or AceJump (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7086-acejump) if you're not, which is what the IdeaVim-EasyMotion leverages in any case.

zehemeron Dataminers are finding developer comments and unlicensed songs in GTA Trilogy

I think the news is that these songs were not licensed for the remasters and don't appear in the remastered versions.

zehemeron Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current

You could try Vim Vixen as an alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/

zehemeron Zuckerberg, Dorsey spar over Twitter’s flagging of Trump’s tweets

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2304

zehemeron My Job Interview at Google (2008)

Also one who writes more configuration than code and babysits rollouts

zehemeron Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

More like inconvenience than trouble, I would say, as most prominent VPN providers are blocked at IP level.

zehemeron How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual

Toggling pretty printing via `cider-repl-toggle-pretty-printing` may provide a workaround there. Courtesy of: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/1115

zehemeron Vimperator: a Vim-like Firefox

You can also use `H` for back and `o` for opening the URL prompt, among others. That requires you to be in the insert mode for typing in input boxes or interacting with the website you're on via keyboard shortcuts though.

zehemeron Most of the Google Hangouts API is being killed on April 25th

I wonder what this would mean for hangups:

https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

zehemeron An introduction to Tmux

Not sure if I get exactly what you are looking for, but abduco[0] (with or without dvtm[1]) might serve you better.

[0]: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/

[1]: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

zehemeron An introduction to Tmux

The select builtin might help in your case:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_09_06.htm...

zehemeron Ask HN: How to (instantly) search by filename in Linux?

Since you mentioned Bitbucket's file search, fzf[1] immediately springs to my mind. I don't know how well it would scale to your use case but it supports pattern and regexp based searching.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

zehemeron Show HN: Passbox – Another password manager using Bash and GPG

For non-mobile use-cases the passmenu script distributed with pass comes in handy:

http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/dmenu/passm...

It types the selected password via xdotool.

zehemeron Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

I'm guessing that it has to do with the focus behaviour of the mouse. If that's the case then it would be the 'focus_follows_mouse' variable. It is set thusly:

http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_focus_follows_mouse

Then again I may be sadly, sadly mistaken.