Extension Development

Summary: nothing to report for Video Focus updates; Half-Life sentences.txt work; possible additional functionality for Video Focus once the new APIs are out of beta

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After a quick return to the test extension I wrote a few days ago and much guffawing, I'm back to discuss another round of KISSing and how thinking outside the box factors into it.

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Keep It Simple, Stupid. I think that's what it stands for. I know I feel stupid after spending many hours trying to solve a problem in a complicated manner when I had immediately thought of a simple solution but discarded it.

Also, Youtube has (recently?) switched to HTML5 Video and that is breaking things for my Video Focus extension.

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UPDATE - July 24 - just submitted my entry: "Puzzle While You Wait"
You can check it out here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/puzzle-while-you-wait

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Relatively short post today about Vim. Vim is my primary text editor for just about everything; all my coding work is done in Vim so this is quite relevant to my extension blog, though perhaps notsomuch to the extension itself.

I recently read Erez Zukerman's article "The Top 7 Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance". He was preaching to the choir boy, as I've been a Vim nut since university.

I didn't learn anything new from the article itself, but luckily I subscribed to the comments and found a link to Derek Wyatt's Vim tutorial videos. These videos are fantastic. I've been using vi/Vim for over 10 years now, and I was still learning cool stuff just by watching his "novice" videos. He also has a series of intermediate and advanced-level tutorials - that'll probably be enough to fill my brain for a long time.

Within the comments of the makeuseof.com article there was also a link to another site, vimcasts.org. Haven't had a chance to check that out yet, but will do after I complete Derek's tutorials. He types and talks quite quickly though - I found myself rewinding on numerous occasions to try to catch what he was doing, especially when covering subjects that I've never touched yet (e.g. visual block editing).