How to print code from Sublime Text
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to print code. You know, like on paper, with ink and stuff. In my last job, one of my assignments was restyling an off-the-shelf customer portal-type website. The...
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Rejection hurts. As part of creating Writing Sublime Plugins, I went through the process of building my own keyboard mappings plugin and submitting it to Package Control. I was excited to get my...
View ArticleSave yourself some embarrassment with this Sublime Text plugin
My first job out of college had nothing to do with programming. I worked at my alma mater in the public relations department as a writer and proofreader. The irony here is that, prior to college, I...
View ArticleMake Sublime’s Find double-plus good
When you hit friction in your workflow, you have two choices. Option 1: Take to Twitter! Gripe and complain. Option 2: Do something about it. Write a plugin that fixes the problem, then share it with...
View ArticleThe one thing in Sublime that you can’t live without …
It hit me like a smack in the face. Join Lines. One of the very first editor productivity tips I ever learned. At the time, I think I was using Notepad++. When I discovered that there was a keyboard...
View ArticleRot your brain in no time flat
Does autocomplete promote brain rot? There’s a longstanding debate over whether code completion features in editors are more harmful than they are helpful. When I first started coding professionally,...
View ArticleHow to get even the trickiest relative paths right–every time
It’s got to be the most frustrating problem in programming. You add a new file to your program, maybe a whizbang jQuery plugin. Then you start coding away, incorporating it into your site. But when...
View ArticleInstant filler text for your mockups and wireframes
Aren’t filler headlines fun to write? They’re even more entertaining when you haven’t slept in 24 hours. When I edited the student newspaper in college, my fellow editors and I would pull an...
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