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Navigating the modes of Vim

This diagram illustrates navigating through Vim’s modes. It was built factoring Vim 9 (i.e., all its modes, including up to two new modes, cr and cvr, in November 2023). Information about the state() and 'showmode' is provided too.

SVG version

Some features are only available in the SVG version. It is not provided directly from within this gist’s files because SVGs do not always play nicely in GitHub (particularly, refusing to display embedded fonts).

The SVG version includes hover text help, which shows pertinent information about the underlying key, command, mode, etc.

Thunderbolt Networking

this gist is part of this series

you wil need proxmox kernel 6.2.16-14-pve or higher.

Load Kernel Modules

add thunderbolt and thunderbolt-net kernel modules (this must be done all nodes - yes i know it can sometimes work withoutm but the thuderbolt-net one has interesting behaviou' so do as i say - add both ;-)
1. nano /etc/modules add modules at bottom of file, one on each line

save using x then y then enter

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

A GitHub Markdown Cheatsheet

This show usable Markdown features on GitHub as a side by side comparison. This focuses on Markdown files, while most of also works in comments etc., there are some differences, so keep that in mind.

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;

Using Selenium and Python to screenshot a javascript-heavy page

As websites become more JavaScript heavy, it's harder to automate things like screenshotting for archival purposes. I've seen examples and suggestions to use PhantomJS for visual testing/archiving of websites, but have run into issues such as the non-rendering of webfonts. I've never tried out Selenium until today...and while I'm not thinking about performance implications yet, Selenium seems far more accurate than PhantomJS...which makes sense since it actually opens a real browser. And it's not too hard to script to do complex interactions: here's an [example of how to log in to Twitter, write a tweet, upload an image, and send a tweet via Selenium and DOM element selection](https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/8a6fa49253c1d6a0eb92

Setup armv7h chroot under x86_64 host (Archlinux/Archlinuxarm biased)

Simple way to setup an arm chroot for building packages for your arm devices. This is an alternative to cross-compiling where you are limited to only linking against the libs in your toolchain.

Setup chroot-fs

You can store the chroot wherever you like. I choose to store it in a disk-image which I mount to my filesystem.

	AccessModifierOffset: -4
	AlignAfterOpenBracket: AlwaysBreak
	AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
	AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
	AlignEscapedNewlines: DontAlign
	AlignOperands: true
	AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
	AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: false
	AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
	AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Inline

	#!/boot/bzImage

	# Linux kernel userspace initialization code, translated to bash
	# (Minus floppy disk handling, because seriously, it's 2017.)
	# Not 100% accurate, but gives you a good idea of how kernel init works
	# GPLv2, Copyright 2017 Hector Martin <[email protected]>
	# Based on Linux 4.10-rc2.

	# Note: pretend chroot is a builtin and affects the current process
	# Note: kernel actually uses major/minor device numbers instead of device name