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- There's Always More History https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/always-more-history/ 27 comments historical , unix , vim
- Why Vim Uses hjkl -Why JavaScript months start from 0 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/always-more-history/ 66 comments programming
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- Why Does "=" Mean Assignment? • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ 1193 comments
- Here is why vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys 213 comments
- Hillel @ buttondown.email/hillelwayne on Twitter: "Okay, I put WAY too much time into researching this, and I almost know what's happening. ALMOST. First of all, JavaScript does this for legacy reasons. In C's &ampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampamplt;time.h&ampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampgt; we have `struct tm`, which does the same thing. But why? We see the rabbit hole, time to jump in." / Twitter https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1329228419628998665 37 comments
- https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl 11 comments
- Find me at buttondown.email/hillelwayne on Twitter: "Why does Vim use `hjkl` for navigation? The usual answer is "it keeps your hands on the home row", while the historical answer is "because Bill Joy developed vi on the ADM-3A, which didn't have arrow keys". But we can push the history further back: why did THE ADM use `hjkl`? https://t.co/Ztez8DO9JC" / Twitter https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1326600125569961991 2 comments
- https://textfiles.meulie.net/bitsaved/Books/Mackenzie_CodedCharSets.pdf 1 comment
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