"Using vim is like talking to your editor in ‘verb modifier object’ sentences, turned into acronyms." Which is a good way of thinking of it.

"Velocity, depth, breadth. These are the dimensions we can add to books, that are the gifts of a digital age, not gimmicks, glossy presentation and media-catching stunts. The text works. It stands and speaks for itself. It is not what we need to change." Yes, yes, yes, this, a hundred times over.

Nice post on Awk basics - most of which I knew, but the examples are still great, especially those involving variables. The links out to the Hacker News and Reddit threads are also full of good stuff.

"Fast-forward ten years, and I'm now using all those accessibility features on a daily basis. At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative (browsing) devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone."

"Chatroom is a short game designed to simulate an IRC chatroom... The story is set in the year 2097, where your character is holed in an underground military bunker with only a working computer to use as means of contact with the outside world."

[rough translation] "Lost on the internet? Don't panic; we're going to help you." (You are here).

"...a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words. They were adept readers and writers, and UNIX played handily to those strengths."

Template maker is "a Python library for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings." Looks super-useful.

xPad - Garrett Murray's simple little note-taking application - is now freeware. It's simple, and most useful for jotting tidbits down in.

After a year or two of being completely sold on Textile, I'm really thinking that there's a lot to this Markdown lark. Namely, readability

All sorts of plain-text getting-things-done stuff.

Lots of different copies of this on Gutenberg. This is probably the best version, and certainly the easiest to do useful things with.

Must read this - games and storytelling. Bruce is currently blowing me away at Etech06

oh sweet god. "column editing" alone looks stonking. download download download...