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tyler_ball

126 karma · joined June 8, 2010

front-end web developer.

http://tylerball.net

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tyler_ball··on Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
what if I give him some feedback for free?
tyler_ball··on Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
easier than hitting gg=G ?
tyler_ball··on Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
He's got bigger things to do: http://instagram.com/p/r2jjTdhQFx/
tyler_ball··on One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos
Reminds me of @googuns_staging: https://twitter.com/googuns_staging

Here's an article about it from last year: http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/spy-twitter-is-weird-twitte

tyler_ball··on MPAA: The Cloud Is A Threat To Us And The Best Response Is Censorship
https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

I automatically see it replaced with "my butt".

tyler_ball··on I Google everything
I have friends that don't even type URLs anymore, they just type 'youtube' into google every time and click the first result.
tyler_ball··on Managing Work-In-Progress Folders with “ls -ltr”
Not literally. I should clarify.

Using ls -ltr will indeed list files in order of modification time, but when I read 'Managing Work-In-Progress Folders' I think version control.

ls will list your files, but it won't really 'manage' anything.

tyler_ball··on Managing Work-In-Progress Folders with “ls -ltr”
This is _exactly_ what version control is for.
tyler_ball··on Living outside America
"...could’ve gotten a job at any tech company in the USA. I was offered ridiculous salaries with signing bonuses of luxury cars. Pretty tempting."

Thank you!

* closes tab

tyler_ball··on FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not.
I've used this library for loading horrible, third-party javascript:

https://github.com/gregersrygg/crapLoader

tyler_ball··on Vim clutch
There goes my plan for my Icelandic-themed casino site.
tyler_ball··on Vim clutch
I did this a few months ago:

    imap kj <esc>
I have never had to type a word with the letter combination 'kj' in it. Works great.
tyler_ball··on Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
Tyler WM (http://www.tylerwm.com/) shows a lot of promise. It's a pretty good 1.0 but there are some edge cases that still prevent me from using it full time.
tyler_ball··on [dead]
What is this, Mashable?
tyler_ball··on Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter
Starts at 10:45
tyler_ball··on Perian is shutting down
I love movist. http://code.google.com/p/movist/
tyler_ball··on VIM Modes Transition Diagram
Definitely don't let this discourage you. I've only been using vim for about six months and I do not know all the commands and modal changes on this diagram.

The great thing about vim is you do not need to know very much to be productive, but every day you learn something new that will make you more productive.

While this is a great reference writing a vim plugin or looking up the behaviour of a specific command, I don't really see it as a learning tool.

tyler_ball··on A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.
Upvotes for any headline with alliteration.
tyler_ball··on Show HN: My 10 Hour Winter Break Project Mixmatic
I love this and the parent site, an awesome project for 10 hours. But it all makes me miss the simplicity of muxtape: http://muxtape.com/story
tyler_ball··on Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
From the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...

Apparently you can use the coupon code BYEBYEGD and save some money transferring to Namecheap.

tyler_ball··on 63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor
I use a modified version of molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim

I like the look of solarized, but in practical use it doesn't have enough contrast for me.

tyler_ball··on CarrierIQ Sparks Class Action vs. Apple, Samsung, HTC, More
I'm surprised it took them this long. The whole company stinks to high heaven.
tyler_ball··on Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator
I guess I'm too isolated from business jargon, but it took me half this article to realize they weren't talking about a _medical_ incubator.
tyler_ball··on Does a terabyte of illegal downloads constitute art?
In all scenarios it's still art. Nobody can disprove that. You can, and should, however debate whether it's good art or not.
tyler_ball··on Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
This strikes me as strange. I'll bet at least half of Ableton's customers use Macs.
tyler_ball··on From "Hack" to "Popular Project"
"I wrote spark in bash shell. From the start, this gave me a huge audience."

It also helps to be a prominent employee and user of a central developer community, with over 800 followers.

tyler_ball··on Why I only work with startups
Whats with this trend of illustrating blog posts with Flickr photos that don't illustrate anything?
tyler_ball··on Be nice. It's a fscking gift
'Gift' is a word I wish I saw more often in the vicinity of 'open source'. I love open source software. I love that there can be a community around any project, no matter how small. It's a powerful philosophy.

But I wish more people would understand the differences between 'free' and 'open source'. Open source software is not free. Huge companies invest millions of dollars into open source projects that you probably use. Time is money.

Looking at is as a gift not only makes you understand the generosity with which the author(s) has open sourced their code, but when I think about it like that I see that there are real people behind the code and that they should be treated as such.

A good lesson.

tyler_ball··on Alice.js - (A Lightweight Independent CSS Engine)
I was thinking the same thing. This site is a pretty good example of "wrong hands"—a bunch of RIM employees.
tyler_ball··on Dropbox is my publish button
So that means you're working with an unsaved, untitled file until you're completely satisfied with the post? That doesn't seem very safe. Unless you're saving your drafts in another location and copying them into your "site", but if so, how is that any harder than just "git commit -a"?
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