andyguzman | 6 years ago | on: Let's Build a Video Card
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andyguzman | 7 years ago | on: It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
> Accept the impermanence
I think this is key no matter what formats you decide to go with. Don’t fool yourself into believing your Blu-Ray movies are going to bring you joy for the rest of your life just because you retain a physical copy.
My childhood VHS collection isn’t of any value to me. Even if VHS looked good on modern TVs the tapes have degraded. My DVD collection looked OK up until 4K TVs, but even they look pretty rough now and DVD players won’t be made forever. Surely we’ll see a shift where Blu-Ray doesn’t have a place in a modern entertainment center at some point.
andyguzman | 13 years ago | on: My next text editor
BBEdit does take some adjustment but I find I'm really happy with it now that I've settled in. I gave ST2 a shot for a few days this week but found myself missing BBEdit - which is a good place to be since it will probably be around for a long while.
Are you using ctags? The syntax highlighting was making me a bit nuts as well but using ctags clears much of the frustration:
http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_...
It still isn't perfect, but much better than the default highlighting.
My two must have tweaks aside from ctags are to change how long autocomplete suggest takes (way too long by default):
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Editor_AutoCompleteDelay -float 0.1
And unchecking suggest dictionary words for autocomplete, but adding it as a custom setting for markdown.
I found this to be a good, affordable resource for suggestions on how to get the most out of BBEdit:
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit
Unfortunately we don't seem to have the strong community editors like Textmate do - so this books was a good way to find some neat tricks I hadn't seen elsewhere..
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Instead I got completely sucked in. His explanations were so clear I was able to understand the majority of the process and could possibly even replicate it or guess at the next step after watching for a bit. I felt like I learned more in that 30 minute video than I did in my whole year of high school electronics that scared me away from this sort of thing twenty years ago. My interest in doing some small projects is definitely piqued now.