For the first time ever I saw this error:

The search and replace feature is very powerful in Vim. Just do a :help :s to see all the things it can do.

XFCE4 has a zoom feature available when the desktop composition is turned on. By default, holding the Alt key and scrolling up or down the mouse wheel,
I can zoom in or out the entire desktop. Once zoomed in, it follows the mouse pointer as to which part of the desktop to show.

Vim can be compiled with Python support. Vim can be compiled with both Python 2 and Python 3 support.

Since yesterday was my last day on a project after four years and two months, I decided to take a look back on those four years and write down some of the things I learned.

Fedora 25 was released over a month ago, so I decided it was time to upgrade from 24.

The Doctrine project comes with a database abstraction and access layer — Doctrine DBAL — which I prefer over other abstraction layers like Zend DB.

I’m looking at git diffs every day, all day. Diffs hold a lot of information that can be valuable, and I think it’s a good thing to know how to fully read a git diff.

Vim macros are a powerful thing — they let us record keystrokes and play them back later. These macros are recorded to named registers.

Back in July I wrote how to set up SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt. One of my certificates was due to a renewal, and
anticipating some work to renew it, I decided to blog how to renew a Let’s Encrypt certificate.