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New comment by marcusmichaels in "Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van"

marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:28:57 +0000

Yeah, that’s on me. Sorry. I’m slowly introducing motions so they currently don’t all work in combination, but it makes sense so I’ll look into it

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van"

marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:27:27 +0000

Appreciate the suggestions, I’ll open up the letters so undo works on all the levels, and will look into the navigation (really like that idea)

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van"

marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:25:58 +0000

I agree, will update it, thank you!

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van"

marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:25:27 +0000

I’ll add that in. Makes sense!

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marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:25:37 +0000

Vim Adventures was a huge inspiration for this!

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marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:25:05 +0000

Thank you, I’m planning to increase keyboard support. There’s also a few little bugs I need to iron out!

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marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:24:19 +0000

Thank you, I’ll work on adding support for more keyboards :)

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marcusmichaels — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:23:51 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, the par is set based on the level, not the absolute best that can be achieved. I added 4r specifically as an example to get across being able to change multiple characters such as XXXX to YYYY.

Though I’m aware some keyboards might not be fully compatible yet so I’ll work on adding wider support.

EDIT: You’re right, I loosely included r but it’s not technically “motion”

Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

marcusmichaels — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thisismodest.com/vimscoops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750803

Points: 121

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New comment by marcusmichaels in "How to Grep Like an LLM"

marcusmichaels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:30:18 +0000

Yeah they're something else

New comment by marcusmichaels in "How to Grep Like an LLM"

marcusmichaels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:10 +0000

I put this together after wanting to be as effective (or as humanly close to) as possible as gaining context on a new repo, similar to how an AI agent would.

I asked an agent how it's so quick, and for it to be my tutor, and this article outlines the key commands and methodology.

How to Grep Like an LLM

marcusmichaels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://marcusmichaels.com/notes/grep-like-an-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502159

Points: 2

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Show HN: Wiggly border generator (somewhat responsive)

marcusmichaels — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:40:19 +0000

This tool was built as a solution for an illustration-style wiggly border that our design team wanted to use on our website.

This works by generating an "organic" style, continuous SVG path, along with a non-scaling-stroke vector effect.

The dials let you size it as close as possible to the aspect ratio for the best effect for your content, but it can also snap to content (though usually one side will look stretched or too wriggly if the aspect ratio changes too much at different screen sizes).

Either way, it did its job.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307748

Points: 1

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Show HN: Office vigilante tool that might get you fired (but promotes security)

marcusmichaels — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:46:01 +0000

An unattended laptop that's still logged in is usually my opportunity to play the looping laughing Gandalf video on their machine.

The other day I allegedly took it a step further by setting a cronjob to run a `say hello friend` command every ~28 minutes. This got me thinking that I should probably stop before I get fired... but also if there's an easier way to do this where I don't have to remember the cron syntax, but also give them an easy way to remove it.

So I made Stay Safe – a fun script that's quick to install, quick to remove, and reminds colleagues of the importance of not letting someone else have unfettered access to their unattended machine.

All the code is open source on github the link at the bottom of the page.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794596

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Show HN: Browser Snippets. Shareable JavaScript snippets you can run on any site"

marcusmichaels — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 23:20:07 +0000

I've done a really quick demo video and added it to the register page so it has a little more information. It's not perfect, but it's iteratively better than it was

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Show HN: Browser Snippets. Shareable JavaScript snippets you can run on any site"

marcusmichaels — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:46:35 +0000

I completely agree – a landing page is my next goal to give a walkthrough of what Browser Snippets is and how it works.

New comment by marcusmichaels in "Show HN: Browser Snippets. Shareable JavaScript snippets you can run on any site"

marcusmichaels — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:16:44 +0000

Hi all,

Feels good to finally post this. It's not got the landing page I was hoping for, but life gets in the way so this feels like a now or never moment, so let me explain what Browser Snippets is.

Browser Snippets was born as a way I could easily write reusable JavaScript snippets that I can also share as part of a team. The platform works in conjunction with the Browser Snippets Chrome extension so you can write once, visit a site, and in two clicks you can execute some code.

It essentially replaces the need to open up DevTools and write in the console, which is great for sharing snippets with members of the team that aren't developers, but need a little extra functionality (like pulling and displaying certain data on screen).

It's still in beta, and probably will be for a while, but the MVP is there where you can create teams so you can all see each other's snippets.

I'm starting to ramble, so I'll leave it there. Any feedback would be really appreciated. Good or bad; and if you find it useful, that'll make the whole build worth it :)

Thanks for reading. I hope you like it.

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