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Three Awesome Spacemacs Features

I was initially hooked by the nearly flawless Vim emulation. But then I fell in love with the pre-defined mnemonic shortcuts and amazing packages.

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Clojure Development with Visual Studio Code

Learning Emacs while also attempting to learn Clojure was too much all at once. So I decided to try out Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with Clojure.

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Clojure Development in Spacemacs

Spacemacs is an awesome editor, and it's excellent for Clojure. Here I’ll describe the installation and setup process and point out a few useful tools.

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IDE Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

Text editors are great at just that–editing text. For large projects, I would recommend looking into an IDE. You might be surprised what you discover.

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IDE vs. Text Editor: Choosing the Right Tool at the Right Time

In the IDE vs. text editor debate, the answer to “Which tool to use?” is simple: It depends.

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CodeRunner: A Generalist’s Swiss Army Knife

While all of its features, taken separately, are available for free, CodeRunner makes it painless to sit down, choose your language, and just start coding.

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Customizing IntelliJ for Emacs Compatibility

IntelliJ out of the box isn't very comfortable for an Emacs user. It gets much better with some keymap tweaks and LivePlugin customizations.

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Why I Prefer AppCode over Xcode

For the last 6 month, I've had the opportunity to use AppCode as my primary IDE, and it's head-and-shoulders above Xcode.

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A Month with the Atom Editor

GitHub's Atom editor is solid with few drawbacks. It's my new favorite editor, and I'm optimistic that this is more than a fling.

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My Favorite Emacs Add-Ons

Some of the best Emacs add-ons, and how I use them in my daily workflow.

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Editing the Future – Light Table, and Atom, and Then What?

A look at what recent programming editor projects (Light Table, Atom, etc.) are trying to deliver and what I'd like to see from them in the future.

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Why Mou Is My New Note-Taking App

Taking good notes is important, and Mou (a Mac OS app that makes it easy to write Markdown) makes a great note-taking tool.