My name is Aaron Hsu, and I'm a computer scientist. I'm changing the way people look at computing and programming languages, what they can do with them, and how they do it.
What does it look like to edit text like a pro using the ed(1) text editor? We all know that ed(1) is the standard editor, but it seems like most people don't know what it looks like to actually use the editor in practice! I've taken the liberty
You did not think that typing on Typeracer was just for English or human language writers, did you? Oh no, Typeracer has a mode where you can race your fellow coders to see who is the fastest code transcriptionist! Oh yeah, now if only they wouldn’t put Arc in
I have two programs that I currently wish to master: ed(1) and mc(1). Ed is about the leanest editor that I know of, and it holds a special place in my retro-but-not-really heart. Mc, or Midnight Commander, is one of the nicest file manager shells that I have
Some of you will know that I like to use the NEdit text editor, over things like Vi, Emacs, NetBeans, Eclipse, Gedit, or other various versions of editors. I'm always looking for ways to improve my experiences with NEdit and to make it more convenient for me to
I'm sure that you've encountered the problem before, at some point in your lifetime. You're trying to print a nice plain text document, and you don't want to bother with enscript or a2ps. So you whip out lpr and you run something