Today I learned

• Vim quickfix list

  A 1146 words post you'll enjoy for ~5 minutes.

  Back when I started using vim, I was a C++ developer. Like many, I used vim because it was there. Like many, I found that hjkl to move around made no sense at first. Next thing I knew, not having them felt like missing a finger. Not long after, w, e, b, f, t or / were no-brainers to move faster.

  Entered :make. It runs makeprg which defaults to make from within the editor. If the code compiles fine (as it always does), you live in a wonderful world. Else, vim takes the compiler’s output and fills the quickfix list.

  The quickfix list is a special file that basically contains places in your codebase you can quickly jump to. It even jumps to the first one by default but you can avoid this with :make! instead.

  To be fair, I was satisfied with this for a long time. The daily routine was simple: :make, fix, start again. But there is more. More than make and more than the first item on the list. There is even more than the list.

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• Let's make history

  A 1891 words post you'll enjoy for ~8 minutes.

  When it comes to hosting static websites, I’m used to the gitlab way. It’s quite simple and elegant. You have a CI, with a job called pages. This job has a directory artifact called public. Done, the content of this directory is served as the website.

  Because of reasons, I wanted to migrate my old, and now closed, website from gitlab to codeberg. And it does not work the same way. I mean, it can work pretty much the same way. But there is an alternative.

  And that alternative led me to the discovery of the --orphan flag of some git subcommands.

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