The Valuable Dev - Managing Local and Remote Filesystems with Vim and netrw
Monday Greetings, Valuable Developer!
Hope your life is made of rivers of honey and bridges in chocolate.
On my side I enjoy the warm summer in Berlin, after a short trip in France to see family and friends. And, of course, to eat an undisclosed amount of croissants.
As always, I like to stay busy, too. I'm even less on social media than before and, instead, I try to learn how to draw, to play the piano, and I take more time to think. It's important to think. I'm not sure what will come out of these artistic experiments, but it's fun.
Now, the article of the month sent Yoda in space. It's again about Vim; more precisely, about netrw, the native Vim file explorer:
Managing Local and Remote Filesystems with Vim and netrw
Do we need to install a plugin to manage our files and directories in Vim? In fact, our favorite editor comes with a native file explorer called netrw. Let's look at it in this article, to try to answer all our needs.
Updates
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The book I'm writing, Learning to Play Vim, is moving forward! It's a lot of work, but it's fun, and I had good feedback on the first two chapters.
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I've written more posts in my series about writing a book:
Resources
- If you want to go deeper in Kubernetes, Kubernetes the hard way looks like an interesting resource to do so.
- Lotus 123, an old Unix spreadsheet application, has been ported to Linux; here's how the author did it.
Mouseless
- If you want a simple CLI for Jira, go-jira is a good option. There are other alternatives:
- I was searching a CLI to test my Internet bandwith, Speedtest CLI is the best I've found.
- If you want to learn the very basics of an OS, Doom Linux looks great for that.
Books
If you're interested in what motivates people (incentives), and if you like to question the common wisdom, you should have a look at these three books:
They're not perfect (there are some questionable arguments in there), but I found them interesting nevertheless, and definitely thought-provoking.
Let's Connect
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Similarly, if you think this newsletter is boring, if you didn't like my last article, or if you have any feedback of any sort, don't hesitate to reach out.
Thanks for your interest in my work, and see you in a month!