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ftblog
Personal blog · bewatermyfriend.orgprogramming
ftblog is a personal blog at bewatermyfriend.org about programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ftblog for its posts on shell and Vim productivity, such as bindkey vi-mode setup and keybinding tweaks. The one comment here points to a post on this as a helpful resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I'm a full-time Vim user who has never taken to `bindkey -v`. The reason is simple: I'm using insert mode 99% of the time, so using vi keybindings just makes me have to hit an extra key. However, it is useful some of the time. Since viins is pretty useless by default, you can spice it up by setting custom bindings (e.g. copy emacs') and get the best of both worlds. Furthermore, this may be helpful: http://www.bewate…
Comment linking /media/vi-mode.zsh
on “Enhancements to Shell and Vim Productivity”Submitted Whitespace, the Language as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zsh: Turn off globbing with Git (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion