VirtualTam's bookmarks

  1. Literate DevOps 2016-03-29

    """ Instead of opening up a terminal to my virtual machine, I pop into Emacs and load this sprint’s /note file/1, create a new header, and enter the shell and ruby commands in this text file.

    What good is this? Unlike a traditional terminal, this allows me to log, document and execute each command.

    As an old bear with very little brains, my prose can explain the background and purpose of each command. Clicking the hyperlink refreshes my memory of previous discoveries. A keychord executes the code block… """

  2. "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."

    • Donald Knuth
  3. Git repository browser providing several colourful views:

    • file tree w/ revisions
    • different kinds of log
    • blame - when highlighting a line, displays the corresponding diff in a side pane

    see http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html

  4. browser.fullscreen.autohide => false

    Gimme MOAR SPACE!

  5. Chords

    • M-x eww RET url

    Very basic built-in web editor; love it to read articles dealing w/ programmation:

    • M-x eww RET url
    • M-x some-major-mode
    • M-x linum
  6. electric-indent has been activated by default in emacs 24

    to disable it for Python: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (set (make-local-variable 'electric-indent-functions) (list (lambda (arg) 'no-indent)))))

  7. Open source racing game with a track editor. It focuses on closed rally tracks with possible stunt elements (jumps, loops, pipes). You can drive in Single-Player mode racing against the clock or completing championships. There is also an online Multi-Player mode.

    http://www.desura.com/games/stunt-rally

  8. Cool Lisp modes, featuring coffee.el (HTCPCP) and some server (httpd, postgres) utils

  9. Un de ces jours, je vais ramener un casque au taf... M-x autist-mode