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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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How to change vim syntax colors that are annoying you

If you look at code all day, having readable colors is going to be the biggest thing that saves your eyes. Here’s how I tweak my colors any time they bother me. To start, you’ll need this little piece of script, which gives you a ,hi alias, which will display the current highlight group. 1. [...]


How to win friends with Maintenance Driven Design

When I come to a design decision in writing an application, script, or interface. I ask myself only one question: What will the next guy think? I call this Maintenance Driven Design. By designing your software to be maintainable, you will earn many friends and praises. As software developers, ops guys, designers, it is a [...]


a personal assistant in the cloud

So I signed up for fancyhands.com – it’s like an email based personal assistant service. For 35 bucks a month you get to send them 15 requests by email to be executed by real people (and as far as I can tell these are not outsourced to india (yet)). So far i’ve had them order [...]


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