You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy.

You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy.” is a response to “We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.” article.  It’s one of the best things I’ve read all through last year.

Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins” is yet another take on customizing the Vim text editor and making it into a full featured IDE.  Most of these things were possible for years (I even had my own blog post on the subject), but with every version of Vim it gets easier and easier to setup a more advanced developer environment.

Vim after 15 years

Vim after 15 years” is yet another one of those “my Vim configuration review” posts by someone who has been using Vim for 15 years or so.

As someone who is also a long time Vim user, I have to say it’s quite common to review your configuration once in a while and remove some outdated bits which made it into plugins and Vim core, update plugins to newer versions, and replace plugins with newer alternatives.

How long is a ‘super quick’ meeting?

I’m still surprised by the number of people who don’t get this … Meetings are important and sometimes people have to be interrupted.  But just keep in mind that the 5 minute chat will probably throw off people for an hour.

Source: CommitStrip.

TreeSheets – Open Source Free Form Data Organizer

TreeSheets is an Open Source cross-platform free form data organizer, which can replace a variety of other tools, like spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, project management tools, text editors, notes applications, and even small databases.  It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, and looks very interesting.  Have a look at the screenshots for some of the things that it can do.