Posted by Mikko Lehtinen on Tuesday 26. October 2010 | Tagged as osx, productivity
Christian Tietze has done great job forking Notational Velocity to support previewing markup using Textile, Markdown or MultiMarkdown. You can also export text as html, in case your blog engine doesn’t support these markup formats. It’s now my favorite tool for editing blog posts. Good job!
Posted by Mikko Lehtinen on Friday 15. October 2010 | Tagged as osx, productivity
True hacker makes his own keyboard!
Well, maybe not. But many international keyboard layouts suck for programming. For example with Finnish keyboard you have to type Alt + Shift + 8 to get }. Now that’s a pain to type gazillion times a day.
To increase my productivity, I decided to create my own keyboard layout using Ukelele OSX app. First I was considering using Dvorak or its programmer’s variant, but then I realized it would have its issues with VIM key mappings and having to relearn everything would require a lot of practicing. So instead I based mine on the Finnish layout.
As you can see I’ve replaced all dead keys with something useful, and also I’m using å for {, since I hardly ever write Swedish. If I really need it, I can get it with Alt+å. I’ve also mapped my caps lock to esc using PCKeyboardHack, which makes VIM much more pleasurable to use.
With shift pressed it’s much like Finnish keyboard without shift with some additional Django and ZSH helpers.
See the result in GitHub or clone the layout git clone git@github.com:mikkolehtinen/ml-keyboard.git and copy ml-keyboard.keylayout to /Library/Keyboard ...
