Vim Conceals C++11

« on 06 May 2012 • Tagged with Vim, C++ »

Today I found a nice, rather unknown little feature of Vim 7.3: conceal. If enabled, you can replace parts of a line with a shorter symbol, effectively providing in-line folding. This comes in handy for C++11 smart pointers! » Continue reading

Jekyll Part 1: Excerpts

« on 01 May 2012 • Tagged with Webdev, Jekyll »

Publishing a Jekyll-powered website to GitHub Pages has a serious drawback: no plugin support. This makes it cumbersome to use basic features like archives, tags/categories or excerpts. The first part of this small series deals with how I implemented excerpts while sticking to vanilla Jekyll. » Continue reading

New Page Goes Live!

« on 22 April 2012 • Tagged with Webdev »

The new version of my homepage is finally online. No big changes on the overall theme, but rather a complete rewrite of the engine behind. There were a number of reasons I wanted to rebuild it -- mainly responsiveness, more flexibility in migration and to make it future-proof. An overview over the design choices and technology. » Continue reading