Never quit! Never surrender! Ok, that's a slight misquote from Galaxy Quest ("Never give up, never surrender"), but I want to talk about quitting vim today, so I'm taking creative license. There's a lot of jokes about
Let's Build an Express App - Part 2: Error Handling In the last post, we did some basic setup for our express app to respond to GET requests at / with an HTML response that included "Hello world." Here's what we had in app.
Let's Build an Express App - Part 1: Setup Express is a popular Node.js web server framework for declaratively exposing routes and handling http traffic to those routes. In this post, we'll get started building a web app based on express,
Motions, Operators, and Text Objects: An Introduction Motions and text objects are two related, but technically different, concepts in vim. Motions are a commands that move the cursor. They typically work in normal mode, in addition to other modes. f,
Ghost on Heroku (part 3) I've written a couple times already about how to host a Ghost blog on Heroku. I thought, after part 2, that maybe it would be easier the next time I wanted to update
An Introduction to Javascript Variables (part 2) I wrote recently about javascript variables and how to create them in code. At the time, I didn't realize there would be a part 2 to that, but it occurred to me that
Why I Continue to Use Vim Most of my coworkers use modern IDEs/text editors, including Sublime Text, VS Code, and WebStorm. I continue to use vim. Every time we have a conversation about this, there's always the same
Keeping Track of Your Help Queries in Vim You know how some people keep track of words they've looked up in the dictionary by highlighting them (most famously in Say Anything)? I was curious what things I was looking up in
Auto-generating Critical CSS I'm on the record (many times over, if you ask my coworkers) as saying critical css is terrible, a step backwards, and just another example of Google throwing their weight around to enforce
An Introduction to Javascript Variables In a past life (i.e. for 8 years after college before realizing how important money is), I was a college English teacher. I still enjoy teaching (in the rare opportunities that arise)
