Cheatsheet for ranger FM

Feb 02, 2020

Ranger fm, is a console based file manager (fm) on Unix/Linux. It has a special three-column view features (that is called Miller columns), but it is also able to behave as a dual-pane fm, like Midnight Commander (MC), total commander, etc. (Actually many keys work like in MC. It is really a great application with many features that can be customized according to one’s need. However, users who are not familiar with terminal commands and vim flavour editors, may find it difficult to learn Ranger’s functioning. This is because a lot of keybindings (e.g. gg) and terms like “yank” or “pager” have long history in computing.

Movable feast

Jan 31, 2020

The memoir *A Movable Feast*, written by Ernest Hemingway, was published in 1964 and popularized the use of the expression as an idiom. There is little agreement as to what the idiom a movable feast actually means. One definition of a movable feast is of something that changes over time. Another definition is something that nourishes your soul, but is transitory. Yet a third definition is something special that one stumbles across. The term movable feast is also sometimes used in a humorous manner to mean a picnic or a progressive dinner. The plural form of movable feast is movable feasts.

Barchart race with Flourish

Aug 24, 2019

Flourish is a data visualisation site with a free plan that enables you to embbed your chart to your website. The following example shows the number of passanger cars per 1000 inhabitants in selected European countries. Passanger cars: “Road motor vehicle, other than a moped or a motor cycle, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine persons (including the driver).” (Eurostat Glossary) Data are downloadable from the Eurostat. Countries are grouped into two categories: Visegrad countries (V4) and non-Visegrad countries (NV4). One can filter groups interactivelly by clicking to group legends.

Miller columns

Jul 17, 2019

Miller columns (also known as cascading lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures. The columns allow multiple levels of the hierarchy to be open at once, and provide a visual representation of the current location. It is closely related to techniques used earlier in the Smalltalk browser, but was independently invented by Mark S. Miller in 1980 at Yale University. The technique was then used at Project Xanadu, Datapoint, and NeXT.” (Wikipedia)

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