vigneshwaran's comments

On: Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)

[vigneshwaran]

Why stop with writing notes and forget?

A better way is to combine your notes tool with Readwise. If you use Notion, then save the page link under a custom book titled Notes.

You’ll get reminded once in a while. Just click the link, review the notes like flash card.

Or just use the static reminder feature in notion if you want more control over your reminders.

On: Mistakes to Avoid If You Work with Scala Futures

[vigneshwaran]

Yes. The async/await in JS is totally different from Await in plain Scala (without any frameworks)

On: Mistakes to Avoid If You Work with Scala Futures

[vigneshwaran]

Thank you for your comment. Yes I felt that the problems could be present in other languages as well but I don't know any other.

On: Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing c...

[vigneshwaran]

Somebody commented that there is a nice tool called 'jump' for bookmarking directories. https://github.com/flavio/jump

You can use both 'jump' to jump between bookmarked directories and 'bd' to quickly go to a parent directory in the same shell.

On: Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing c...

[vigneshwaran]

That's a good one!

On: Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing c...

[vigneshwaran]

Didn't know about the function approach.

Removed the 'export'. I wrote out of habit. Thanks a lot for pointing that out.

On: Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing c...

[vigneshwaran]

Thank you

On: Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing c...

[vigneshwaran]

Hi, 'jump' is a great bookmarking system for the bash shell. But you'd only want to bookmark some most used directories.

I made 'bd' out of frustration to use 'cd ../..' all the time from "any" random directory. I can't bookmark all possible places. They are like slightly different tools.

I think it'll be awesome to use both jump and bd in the same system!

Please give 'bd' a try. Once you get used to 'bd', you'll use it frequently without thinking. :)

[hk__2 → vigneshwaran]

You can use z, then. You don’t have to bookmark directories to jump to them.

[vigneshwaran → hk__2]

Thanks. z is great! If only I had found this before. I actually googled a lot before writing this (last year April) but couldn't find something like z.

Anyways z always changes directory. Using bd within backticks will just print the path without changing the directory. We can use that with other commands like ls, zip etc. Example: "ls `bd <starting letters>`" would only print the contents without changing the directory.

[arjunrc → vigneshwaran]

An obligatory addition - check out fasd (https://github.com/clvv/fasd), inspired by z.

In addition to "z foldername" to move around, you can do things like "v vimrc" or "v freetds.conf" to directly edit files, where ever you are.

It's available on homebrew.

On: Eric Schmidt heading on mystery mission to North K...

[vigneshwaran]

Come back in 1 piece! :P

On: Social network for creativity launched by A.R. Rah...

[vigneshwaran]

And the site looks dull. I believe any social networking sites should have bright background color like FB and G+.