Flatland: The best minimal theme for Sublime Text
The first time I tried Sublime Text, I was completely turned off by the editor’s user interface “chrome”: I hated the glossy gradients, the subtle shadows that gave the tabs that 3D look and the harsh...
View ArticleStarting a New WordPress Plugin with Sublime Text
Starting a new project is always fun — no unfamiliar code to grok, no need to worry about breaking existing features. Then … the setup begins Copy and paste the files from a previous project. Delete a...
View ArticleCreate and Open GitHub Gists from Sublime Text
I use GitHub gists when I want to save a snippet of code for easy reuse, or to save readers of my Sublime Productivity ebook from having to retype code examples. Creating gists through GitHub’s web...
View ArticleWin a free Sublime Text license
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View ArticleFix Sublime Text’s quirky PHP, SASS variable selection
Editing PHP and SASS variables is awkward in Sublime Text. Both languages use a $ prefix for variables, but Sublime pretends not to know that. When you try to select a variable, either by...
View ArticleSublime Text 3: Worth the upgrade?
You’ve heard the buzz about the Sublime Text 3 beta: Goto Definition and Goto Symbol? Across whole projects? Yes, please! But when you head over to the Sublime site, you realize those new features come...
View ArticleSublime Text power user tricks (plus how to debug your PHP like a boss)
One of my favorite programming jokes of all time goes something like this: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. It’s...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleEvery Sublime Text shortcut, right at your fingertips
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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