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Seven Reasons Every Programmer Should Use Vim

Over the last few days, I heard so many people talking about how it’s so “has been” to use vim or another text editor for there’s a lot of IDEs out there. Let me clear this once for all : I I’m not insulting people who use IDEs, I’m not against IDEs. They’re not my choice, I have used several, tried a lot, and still stick to my editor of choice: VIM ! French people say: “Il n’y a que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d’avis”, which means: “Only stupid people don’t change their mind”, but still… I’ve choosed my tools and from my experience, I just can’t find better.

Don’t believe me? Let me show you some very nice things one can use in vim easily and have a great coding experience:Read More »


Usability is about your mom!

Doug Ward shows us a fundamental aspect of usability: Design and code for your users! Never try to impress them with stuff they very probably ignore. Never make them feel like idiots.

I usually call this “content accesibility”, it’s about speaking your readers language, and explaining things gently without trying to hurt or, in the other side, to impress them.Read More »