Updates. By Jeff Kreeftmeijer

I tell myself I use my laptop’s screen as a secondary display for chat and e-mail, but I tend to move their windows over to the main screen whenever I actually use them. 🤷‍♀️

I prefer italics over boldface for emphasis and newly introduced terms in technical writing. It’s all the emphasis you need, but without the distraction.

that’s great to hear! Let me know if I can help with anything. :)

Well, this 𝒊s quite a simple substitut𝑖𝑜n. Aside from that missing esc͒ͪo͛ͫape, it 𝘄e̿̔̉𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 f̵o̵r̵ ʰᵉ ᶜᵒᵐ̡ᵉ̶ˢ a pon̷y use cag͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆e*̶͑̾̾ lIKeTH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚​N̐Y̡ H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ

Actually, that substitution removes the last character from each list item in the file instead of just periods. 🤷‍♀️

Remember; don’t forget to \ your .’s!

Since the document I’m editing only uses lists with dashes, %s/\(- .\+\)\./\1/g would have worked as well, but I’m a sucker for over-the-top unreadable Vim substitutions. ;)

Here’s a sneak peek at my upcoming book named “Technical editing with Vim substitutions”, which shows removing trailing periods from markdown lists:

:%s/\(\(-\|*\|\d*\.\) .\+\)./\1/

“‘Class methods’ are actually instance methods defined on the singleton class of a class object.”

Help! How do you pronounce class << self? #askingforafriendwhoisgivingatalktonight

“Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimising storage.”, but my trash is already empty. 🤷‍♀️

gethostname() -> {ok, Hostname}
Returns the local hostname. Never fails.

❤️ http://erlang.org/doc/man/inet.html#gethostname-0

TIL: Git’s interactive rebase accepts “e” instead of “edit” in $EDITOR. #amsrb

Here’s your periodic reminder that DM requests are a thing on Twitter even if your DMs are open. They’re in a different tab and won’t send notifications. brb, responding to 6-month old messages. 😓

My 500-word article is now 1200 words long, and I’m pretty sure I’m about halfway done.

Thanks! That one sure was a lot of fun to write. :)

Oh, wow! Congratulations! 🤗

More documentation would be great indeed! Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need help figuring some of this out, I’d love to make this a bit easier to use by anyone other than myself.

Sorry for missing those, I messed up my notification settings for that repository. I’ll take a look at the Mastodon issue soon.

For the replies, make sure you’re using the full Twitter status URL and suffix the user handle with @twitter.com, like I’m doing here.

Oh, wow! I saw your fork, but didn’t notice you were already using it. That updates page looks great! How are you liking it so far?

reverse double-half-boat operator!

<< is henceforth known as the double-half-boat operator.

Oh, wow. That’s great! Your initial view on platformers definitely caught my attention. I haven’t played a platformer in years, but Celeste sounds like fun!

Thanks for publishing the dang thing. :)

It came out great! We need more real-world articles like this. Thank you for publishing. Of course, let me know if I can help get another one of those drafts out. :)

Time flies when you’re having lunch.