2025-11-04 15:56:16
Notepad hijacked by suspected state-sponsored hackers https://therecord.media/popular-text-editor-hijacked-by-suspected-state-sponsored-hackers
Updating the list of CLI apps I use regularly:
- castero: client for listening to podcasts.
- calcurse: personal calendar compatible with CalDAV servers.
- kew: music player.
- micro: text editor.
- toot: Mastodon client.
- newsboat: feed reader.
- w3m: web browser (and newsboat add-on, in my case).
- bat: like cat, but cooler.
- exa: like ls, but cooler.
- ncdu: tool for analyzing folder space usage.
- atool: tool for managing compress…
OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/…
Every time I try to use Obsidian I just dont understand how anyone can use this fucking editor?
Who thinks opening a quote with ``` should then visually start a quote block and put the ``` inside the text of the quote block? And then when you remove the ``` it removes the quote block?
Or when you make a "*" bullet list it visually makes a bullet list but then also put your bullet in the bullet list which you then have to remove?
And that's in "source"…
CotEditor remains a gem of a plain-text, open-source editor for macOS
And it gets so many updates, it’s unbelievable
#mac
Tonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #Wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of reference…
I have no interest in hacking on my text editor
I'm a VS Code newbie. And I'm struggling with the editor randomly selecting text while I type particularly when typing symbols. As a result the final code is invalid.
Is there some flag that I have to uncheck to make it stop?
Today, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.
I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with
A discussion with @… motivated me to talk about Helix and Neovim.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_helix_neovim/
This is neither a co…
Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…
There are two main ways to replace part of a string in a text editor, with a longer string.
Either you use the overwrite mode to overwrite the overlapping part, then switch to insert mode to append the extra characters, or you delete the overlapping part, then insert the new string using insert mode entirely.
Or you can be chaotic, use overwrite mode to replace part of it, prematurely switch to insert mode, delete the remaining extraneous characters and insert whatever is left.
children, remember that your text editor probably can invoke gopls quickfix action and that's not just a privilege of the fancy people with the fancy ide