Productivity

Vim Delete Operations

Published: 2025-10-13

Vim offers a powerful and comprehensive set of delete operations that can handle everything from single characters to large-scale text manipulations. Understanding these commands and their combinations can dramatically improve your text editing efficiency. This guide covers all essential delete operations in Vim, from basic commands to advanced combinations with motions, ranges, and visual modes.

A Comprehensive Guide to tmux

Published: 2025-10-12

Tmux (Terminal Multiplexer) is a tool that can fundamentally transform your relationship with the command line. Whether you're a seasoned developer, a system administrator, or just someone who loves the efficiency of the terminal, tmux offers a powerful suite of features to manage multiple sessions, windows, and panes. This guide will take you on a journey from the absolute basics to advanced automation, turning you into a tmux power user.

Getting Started with Neovim

Published: 2025-10-03

Neovim is a modern, extensible text editor that builds upon the foundation of Vim while adding powerful new features. This guide walks you through setting up Neovim from scratch, configuring it with essential plugins, and transforming it into a fully-featured development environment.

Guide to Bash and Zsh Configuration

Published: 2025-10-03

Your shell is one of the most important tools in your development workflow. While both bash and zsh are powerful out of the box, their default configurations leave much to be desired. This guide explores the most popular configuration frameworks—Bash-it for bash, and Oh My Zsh and Zim for zsh—that dramatically simplify shell customization and unlock powerful productivity features.

Setting Up a Vim Configuration

Published: 2025-10-02

Vim is a powerful text editor, but its default configuration can be somewhat bare-bones. This guide shows you how to quickly set up an enhanced Vim environment using the Ultimate vimrc project, along with some essential customizations for improved productivity.

Vim Clipboard Skills

Published: 2025-10-02

Working with Vim's clipboard functionality can be tricky, especially when you need to copy text between Vim and external applications. This comprehensive guide explains how to seamlessly integrate Vim with your system clipboard, manage registers effectively, and handle clipboard operations in different environments including virtual machines.

The Five-Layer Cake Model of the PhD Journey

Published: 2026-01-03

The artificial intelligence industry operates on a five-layer architecture: energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications. This elegant framework captures how foundational resources enable increasingly sophisticated outputs. What if we applied this same logic to the PhD journey? The result is a remarkably clear model for understanding where doctoral students struggle—and why.

TUIOS: A Modern Terminal-Based Window Manager

Published: 2025-11-23

TUIOS is a terminal-based window manager that revolutionises how developers interact with multiple terminal sessions. Built with Go using the Charm stack (Bubble Tea v2 and Lipgloss v2), it provides a modern, efficient interface with vim-like modal controls, workspace support, and seamless mouse interaction. Whether you're managing local sessions or connecting remotely via SSH, TUIOS offers a streamlined experience for terminal power users.

RIME Input: A Highly Customisable Typing Solution

Published: 2025-11-13

RIME (Rime Input Method Engine) is a powerful, open-source input method framework that provides users with unprecedented control over their typing experience. Unlike conventional input methods, RIME allows extensive manual configuration, enabling you to customise both the input behaviour and operational habits to suit your specific workflow.

Prompts Collection

Published: 2025-08-18

This comprehensive guide presents a curated collection of powerful AI prompts designed to streamline various tasks across academic writing, research, communication, and content creation. From LaTeX formatting and BibTeX management to literature searches, multilingual translation, and effective communication strategies, these prompts serve as practical tools to enhance productivity and quality in professional and academic workflows.