• Thorsten Lorenz

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  • Sun Jan 17 2021 17:03:22

    vim wiki to organize existing documents and more

    Today was another of those weekend days where I start out on a project I wanted to continue on and magically discover some vim feature which I then have to follow all the way into the rabbit hole. Today one of those was vimwiki.

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  • Sunday, January 26th, 2014, 9:19:49 PM

    Viewing man pages in Vim and Preview

    I recently came upon a collection of neat things you can do in the terminal on stackoverflow.

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  • Mon Feb 17 2014 16:19:36

    Run valgrind from your Mac via a remote Linux machine

    So you decided to write some C/C++ and you want to do so on your Mac since you like the gestures and/or other niceties that a Linux distro can't give you?

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  • Wed Dec 18 2013 22:00:52

    The nodejs local module path trick

    Sometimes you have a module installed locally that happens to have the same name as a core module. As an example you may have a module called util.

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  • Thu Apr 25 2013 08:00:33

    Talking scriptie-talkie

    I recently created scriptie-talkie, a tool designed to make learning, writing and debugging JavaScript as interactive and fast as possible.

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  • Thu Feb 21 2013 08:53:31

    How to detect if a nodejs module is run as a script

    If you want to find out how the second option works, read on.

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  • Wed Jan 29 2014 21:43:37

    Live edit browserified code in chrome devtools

    You may have noticed that Remy Sharp never has to leave devtools, or have watched addy osmani improving productivity with chrome dev tools.

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  • Tue Sep 18 2012 17:46:55

    Handling multiple failing async requests

    Especially when working with serverside javascript, there are a lot of cases where we need to perform a set of asynchronous tasks, and call back with a result when all are done.

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  • Mon Oct 01 2012 08:30:28

    The Power of NodeJS Streams and the event-stream Module

    Streams are the number one topic in the nodejs community this year, so I decided to get a better understanding of what everybody is talking about by reading through one of the most cited libraries related to streams.

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  • Sun Sep 16 2012 11:54:37

    Getting started with dog

    Dog is a markdown based blogging engine, powered by nodejs.

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  • Sun Dec 15 2013 13:21:49

    How to find the include path of a globally installed C library

    In order to include a globally installed library via -L it helps to know how to find its include path, and this post shows how to find it quickly.

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  • Sunday March 31st 2013 21:49:41

    browserify v2 adds source maps

    I recently helped to add source map support to browserify version 2 and will outline in this post, what source maps are, how to use them with browserify and how the support was added.

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  • Sat Jan 30 2021 14:51:38

    Benchmarking Rust Code on OSX

    Today I went through the rust wasm tutorial and learned a bunch especially regarding performance via this section.

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