Make Seemingly Difficult Tasks Trivial

Kevin — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Earlier today there was a ping in Slack for assistance. A coworker needed to update 140 XML files with a new element, and the element value will be populated from an existing element in the node.

For most people, they hear the number “140” and think wow, this will take a while. But the number of documents here isn’t the issue, we just need to solve the problem once and apply it everywhere.

My mind quickly jumped to a shell script and some sort of sed magic. Before I opened up Vim, I jotted down what path I needed:

Kevin October 31st, 2017

Tmux, Vim, Zsh, oh my (zsh)!

Kevin — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Tmux, Vim, Zsh, oh my (zsh)!

I decided to give myself a little challenge at the end of this year.

After Thanksgiving I decided I wanted to try something different for a change and start getting better acquainted with the shell, throw my hat in the air and start learning Vim.

Not interested in lengthy discussions over whats better, I simply chose Vim instead of Emacs because I wanted to start somewhere, and I have lightly used Vi and Nano over the years so it is a little familiar.

Kevin December 24th, 2016