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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2025-01-20 at 09:02

Gave my #ValeTextLinter workshop at #eo25 #EverythingOpen today.

Thank you to everyone who came along. I'm sorry it was not streamed but the videos should be up in a few weeks.

Thank you audience for the positive feedback.

Sorry my demo had a small bug -- now fixed

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2025-01-11 at 21:55

I you plan to attend my workshop on the #ValeTextLinter at #EverythingOpen 2025 please make sure you have Vale installed, Git would be very useful as well.

The examples have been tested with Vale 3.9

https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/63/

[#]eo2025 #EverythingOpen

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2025-01-01 at 00:02

Delighted to see that people are still talking about #SmallTalk #Programming

https://www.youtube.com/@UKSTUG

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-12-08 at 09:14

Dear Mastodon,

Can anyone offer an opinion on #PowerShell vs #NUShell. Specifically on a POSIX style system?

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-10-26 at 06:58

Most peeps on Mastodon probably already have a reasonable set of personal #CyberSecurity practices.

However if you are struggling with cyber security support for your nearest and dearest, you might want to share this handy security checklist from the AU Cyber Security Centre. I think it's a great resource and conversation starter (plus you don't even need to be Australian!)

https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-03/personal-security-guide-first_steps-summary-checklist.pdf

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-09-26 at 07:10

[#]ValeLinter now provides linux/arm64 container images on #Docker Hub.

makes life easier for those of us writing docs on Linux ARM hardware (I use a ChromOS tablet with Linux sometimes)

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-08-30 at 03:41

GAhhh!

And now I notice the spelling mistakes?

Time to fix Vale spell checking (I borked it, so no one else to blame!)

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-08-29 at 11:21

At last got around to writing up the easy way to manage #Git Hook Scripts using the core.hooksPath setting. If you struggle to manage your hook scripts it's a game changer.

https://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/blog/2024/08/manage-git-and-hook-scripts-the-easy-way/

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-07-12 at 03:17

If you are a #git user, then you should be #LazyGit curious.

Here is a nice vid to introduce it.

(tl;dr -- Lazygit is a TUI based Git client. IMHO it makes Git easier to use without without feeling it's in the way)

https://youtu.be/Ihg37znaiBo?si=WMhxOWiiFZricPaJ

/ht https://github.com/josean-dev

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-05-21 at 01:47

Dear #Accessibility Lazyweb

If I use

ℹ️ : A Hunspell dictionary has two files, an .aff file and a .dic file.

Instead of

Note : A Hunspell dictionary has two files, an .aff file and a .dic file.

can screen readers understand it correctly?

i.e. Is using emojis in this way an accessibility issue?

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-05-02 at 02:26

The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1751243/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60

I wrote my 1st computer program on ICL Mainframe BASIC Sept 1978.

When I later worked at NCR we claimed BASIC stood for "Babies and Simple Idiots Code"

Very rude!

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-04-19 at 22:39

Thing i learned today.

There is a defined alternative to JSON lines (JSONL).

API payloads should contain JSON text sequences rather than JSONL formatted data.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7464.html

But JSONL is useful for processing JSON data using text processing tools, so it has a place.

https://jsonlines.org/

Q: I wonder how jq handles JSON text sequences?

h/t to @handrews and this answer https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/discussions/2707#discussioncomment-9170889

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-04-19 at 07:02

Are any of the cool kids still using #keybase or has that died?

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-30 at 10:38

[#]Neovim / #Vim top of the day.

You can jump around to specific lines numbers by hitting ":"

But how to know the line number?

Switch on line number display in your lua setup

vim.wo.number = true

In Vimscript its's

set number

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-29 at 00:04

Today's #Neovim / #Vim related tip follows on from my suggestion to master command mode

(a.k.a : mode),

Read Appendix 1 of the UNIX Programming Environment. It explains how to use ed, which : mode is based on.

It's in the Internet Archive so I guess it's free to download now.

https://ia600400.us.archive.org/24/items/UnixProgrammingEnviornment/unix_programming_environment_text.pdf

You might also find ch 6 of Software Tools of interest if you really want to down a rathole.

https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/doVKAAAAMAAJ

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-26 at 05:06

Australia made the front page of the BBC again. Makes you proud!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68662201

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-22 at 05:29

Today's #Neovim tip is actually not Vim specific, but is directed particularly at junior developers.

1. Learn and use regular expression (patterns) in your search commands

https://neovim.io/doc/user/pattern.html

Regex are generally useful, no just in Vim, so it's time well spent

2. And learn to use back references in you substitute commands

https://neovim.io/doc/user/change.html#sub-replace-special

I often use these when other people would use macros.

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-17 at 03:55

Today's #Vim #NeoVim tip is a feature rather than a single command.

Use marks

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https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Using_marks

Amongst other things, they help you jump around a file and move arbitrary lines of text with ease. e.g.

1. find 1st line of interest and create a mark with "ma"

2. Locate end of text block

3. Delete the text block with ":`a,.d"

4. Goto new location and hit "p"

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-16 at 07:15

And today's #Vim #Neovim command "de jour" is

z=

to spell check the word under the cursor (because I write a lot of text)

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Written by Alec :tux: 🇦🇺 👨‍💻 on 2024-03-15 at 00:44

Now I've repented of my sins and gone back to #Vim #Neovim I am rediscovering my favourite motion commands.

Today's example

y%

yanks the current block delimited by the char under the cursor e.g. (,[,{

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