I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Dear all contributors to vimrcfu,
thank you very much for all my sleepless nights this week. Â I’ve almost forgot how my bed looks like. Â On the other hand, I’ve learned a tonne and have significantly rearranged my vimrc and related files, expanding it with new bits and pieces.
The sleep I can get back. Â The awesome features of Vim at my fingertips now – couldn’t have happened without you.
You rock!
Best regards,
yours truly.
I thought I did. Â Especially after all the hours spent with Ansible. Â Turns out I don’t. Â I have a very limited understanding of the YAML format. Â How do I know that, you ask? Â Well, that’s because I am reading the YAML specification now.
Holy Molly that’s an interesting format! Â Much recommended weekend reading.
VimGolf – a quick and fun way to learn Vim text editor. Â There is a whole lot of different challenges for all levels – from novice to expert – that will test your knowledge of Vim trickery.
You can also review the solutions provided by other people, from shortest to the most readable.
Browserling does it again:
For those of you not old enough, here are the ASCII and ANSI Wikipedia pages. Â Back in a day we used these for cool art, fancy user interfaces, email signatures, games and more. Â Have a look at some cool examples of ASCII art. Â Now imagine those “images” colored with the breathtaking variety of 8 colors and you’ve got yourself a true 90’s rainbow explosion.
You’d probably be surprised to learn that a lot of these have survived to modern day, and are still used in command line user interfaces.
P.S.: And if you think that this stuff is ancient, have a look at typewriter art example.
Today, while upgrading some of my Ansible roles I’ve hit the problem. Some of the newer roles require Ansible 2.0. My Amazon AMI machine that runs the playbooks was still on version 1.9. EPEL repository doesn’t seem to have the newer Ansible version yet. Gladly, Google brough in this StackOverflow thread, which suggested installing Ansible with pip, not with yum. This helped a lot:
rpm -e ansible pip install ansible
It actually brought in Ansible v2.2 (see also Ansible v2.1), which is even better.