Evil-mode (Part 1)

I’ve been using vim for the last 4 years regularly as my text editor, and in many ways, vim has permiated all the other tools I use. In any application that I can, I will use vi/vim bindings if they are offered. I use vi-mode emulation in my terminal shell, zsh. I use a vim emulation layer in Firefox called Pentadactyl. I use a pdf reader called mupdf that has vim bindings, and the list goes on. Since learning the programming language Clojure, though, I’ve been interested in learning the text editor emacs, as there are a lot of Clojure tools designed around emacs. I still have no idea what I’m doing, nonetheless… ...

January 14, 2013 · 3 min · 562 words · Bradon Kanyid (rattboi)

Setting Up This Blog

Ok, so my name is Bradon Kanyid, and I’m a Senior Computer Engineering student at Portland State University in the [Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science ]. I have a lot of interests, mostly computer-related. At the end of fall quarter, I decided that it would be useful to start documenting projects and things I enjoy somewhere online. Where to start? I decided to make this blog, but definitely do not have a lot of prior webdev experience. I’ve made little internal pages for work and such, but never really looked into hosting, domain registration, frameworks, or anything of the sort. I started asking my fellow students and CAT members, and decided that the best thing for me would be to get my own VPS, register my own domain name, and find a static HTML site generator. ...

December 21, 2012 · 4 min · 709 words · Bradon Kanyid (rattboi)