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I've been looking for guides for how to do .NET development in Vim, because Vim has long appealed to me for a variety of reasons too esoteric to get into right now. And, despite it being what I'm using to write this post, I'm hungry to get away from Visual Studio Code and its "I'm secretly Javascript running on Chrome don't tell anybody"; I mean, I've used WAY worse web-simulacra-of-native-apps (I'm glaring at you, Descript), but still. Code is a little janky (for some reason, File > New Window doesn't seem to work anymore) and I don't need my text editor to swallow 2GB of RAM when I'm not using it.

ANYWAY, I'm bookmarking this article because it looks helpful. Actually, Rudism.com just looks all over like the kind of site I want to have. So, also bookmarked for inspiration.

Setting up Visual Studio Code for F#

• Cool: you can open a Terminal in VSCode with ^ + `
• Do I need to install an extension to use F#? Syntax colouring is built in, looks like
• Let’s try creating an FSX script file
  • Ok, I can do that, it has syntax highlighting …

I always try to do sudo cd /some/restricted/dir and it doesn’t work and I always forget why.

sudo cd won't work because the cd command is built into the shell. So you are saying become root and then run this command. You become root and then the command after sudo is searched for but there is no cd command to find.

The method to use is to switch to the user that owns the directory. Permission 700 is meant as "owner can read, write and execute".

So if root owns the directory sudo -i, password and then cd {dir} is the only correct method. If someone else owns the directory you can still use the 1st method but can also change to that user with su {username} and then use cd as that user.

In summary: cd isn’t a “command”, so you can’t pass it to sudo. Instead, use su to become an appropriate user and then use the shell to change directories.

OMG, you guys… MegaZeux still exists!

I used to fool around with this ASCII-art game/game editor 25 years ago! It was a new, more-advanced version of ZZT, which might technically still exist, too.

A week off + quarantine has made me nostalgic for the games of my youth, and today I remembered MZX… and found it. 🤯🤓

I feel like I "should" be making things instead of consuming them. At least playing old Nintendo games makes me itch to try developing my own, instead of just sinking hours into the couch.

We'll see if that itch leads anywhere.

There's no good reason I should build my own site generator, instead of just using Jekyll (as I am at the time of writing this post.)

No good reason, other than I want to, other than I miss software development and, more specifically, have never really done a big software …

This is basically my go-to site for learning F#. Full of good explanations of concepts, and worked examples.

Awesome tool for finding special characters (and their related encodings/code points/etc.) or even taking an unfamiliar character and finding out what the heck it is.

I can't remember if I'd come across the Markdown Guide before—useful reference for the less-common bits of Markdown, like tables.

In fact, I found the site when searching for evidence that Jekyll supports Markdown tables (it does). The list of tools and what features they support is handy. 👍🏼

I used this article to properly position the little Micro.blog logo next to the Status Feed link in this site's navigation bar. Useful!

I just downloaded the caption files to a bunch of video clips, and wanted each one to go in a folder with its same name (minus the file extension), cos that’s where the work on each clip is going to happen. I found a script to do that all …