Tips & Tricks

TLDR For the foreseeable future, you can likely use 127.0.0.0/8 freely (or at least 127.0.0.0/16). Introducing 127.0.0.0/8, the Loopback Range Visualization of the 127.0.0.0/8 rangeFrom cidr.xyz by Yuval Adam If you have ever done web development or otherwise set up a local server, you have most likely used the IP address 127.0.0.1 to communicate with a local server. Often, localhost is even internally translated to that address. But what if you want to run another server on the same computer?...

Sometimes when your pull request is reviewed, it turns out that you have to make a small change. For instance, you have to remove a white space. Here is a really quick way to fix it, that will not even fire your editor to change the commit message. Make sure you are on the branch of the pull request (for instance, by reading the output of git status) Edit and save your file, removing the white space....

2023-05-20: Updated to account for the features of NeoVim 0.9 and obsolete plugins You have found a (Neo)Vim plugin that you want to fiddle with, either to contribute changes upstream or for your own use. Sounds familiar? Here are some tips and tricks I use for my NeoVim plugin development. The aim of these small tricks is to iterate faster on changes, by loading your changes in a live NeoVim instance as quickly as possible....