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Safe Usage of /bin/rm

Safe use of /bin/rm is important to prevent destroying critical data. A wrapper script for /bin/rm can help prevent accidental deletions.

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Simple Remote Pairing with wemux

wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.

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Learn Vim with Spaced Repetition

Resources for using a spaced repetition algorithm to learn Vim and its commands.

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Hate-Driven Development

An inverted TDD workflow—intelligent code-editing features allow you to speculate what a test looks like and let the editor create declarations for you.

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Less Perplexing Terminal Multiplexing with tmux

As a professional problem solver, I spend a considerable portion of my day working at a command prompt within a terminal multiplexer called tmux.

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Safeguarding Your Productivity with Backups

Make a bootable backup of your hard drive so that you can quickly recover in the event of a hard drive failure and maintain your productivity.

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Highlight Strings in Cucumber Features with Vim

An "after" syntax file that adds highlighting to double quoted strings in Cucumber feature files when using tpope's vim-cucumber plugin.

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Splitting an SVN Repository

Split a SVN (subversion) repository, maintaining commit history during the migration, with svnadmin, svndumpfilter, and svn dump files.

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Run Tests From MacVim via Terminal.app or iTerm.app

AppleScript and Vimscript for running Ruby tests being edited in MacVim in either Terminal.app or iTerm.app. Works with Rspec, Cucumber, and Test::Unit tests.

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Atomic Vim

Atomic Vim provides all the benefits of vim with some of the best features of TextMate by assembling and customizing some of the best vim plugins.

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Some Useful Iconv Functionality

Iconv converts between character encodings. Special functionality includes the ability to transliterate characters and omit invalid characters from encodings.

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GNU Screen Crash Course

GNU Screen has a bit of a learning curve, so here’s a crash course on how to control screen.

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