vi gem
I’ve been using “vi” (a popular unix text editor) for about 15 years. Today I learned something important. Vi has bookmarks that can be used for doing stuff with blocks of text easily.
I've been using Markdown Extra for formatting posts and pages for a new site I'm working on. Since I want the back-end editing to be as simple as possible, I…
Google has announced today on their official blog that they are starting a pilot program to digitize the National Archives' video content. They posted a few example links including the…
Tip 1: Hover over any thumbnail and hit Ctrl-Alt. It will instantly fill the screen with the high resolution image. Tip 2: Hit Ctrl-L and your web browser will pop…
Many websites work with either "www.mysite.com" or "mysite.com". Google doesn't like that since it looks like two sites--sometimes they might penalize you for it. From their guidelines page: Don't create…
Very often you want to find the 2d coordinates on the screen for a given 3d point. Here’s a little mel script that knows the projection math and takes care of generating the data in a “raw channel text file” format. From here, it’s easy to generate just about any ascii file format that a compositing program might be expecting. (more…)