Max Shen

Continuing on from the previous series that began with Embodying the Nervous System. In your skull, there is a large organ that we call the brain. For the last hundred years, we have privileged it as the focal point for investigation into human nature and behavior. Exercise If you close your eyes, and point to where you feel you are in your body, where do you point? Do you have a focal point? Most of us locate ourselves in our head, somewhere behind the eyes.

Start of the journey If you are an open-source maintainer sharing projects on GitHub, you are probably familiar with Github’s repository traffic graph that looks like this: At first glance, this feature looks useful, but its limitation is clear: it only shows the past 14 days of your repo’s traffic data, making it hard to track long-term trends. While searching for solutions, I realized that many developers face similar challenges.

When I started learning Vim few years ago, I read through a lot of blog posts and watched a lot of videos. I notice that most of the tutorials teach visual mode in a way that makes it seem like an important part of Vim. After using Vim for a while, I think this is a mistake. Visual mode is not as important as most people think. In fact, you might be overusing it. Let me explain why with some examples.