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Articles by Chris Thorn

  1. Profiling Vim

    Vim enables you to edit text rapidly, but what do you do when Vim itself is slow? Profile!

    Chris Thorn
    July 15, 2019
    • Vim
    • Performance
    • Tools
  2. Befunge: An Esoteric Story

    You’ve probably heard of Brainfuck, but did you know there’re many more strange languages out there?

    Chris Thorn
    June 11, 2018
    • Befunge
    • Esoteric
    • Fun
  3. Automatically Collapse Generated Files in GitHub Diffs

    Large, generated source code files can be a pain to deal with in diffs, but we have the tools to combat them.

    Chris Thorn
    April 11, 2017
    • Unity
    • VR
    • 3D
  4. A React Rendering Misconception

    In which we learn how often React renders components.

    Chris Thorn
    April 5, 2017
    • React
    • Performance
    • Web
  5. Introducing Pipe it Down

    Sometimes pull requests are full of noise and it’s difficult to cut through to what matters. Pipe it Down is a Chrome extension to help with that.

    Chris Thorn
    March 8, 2017
    • DevTools
    • Unity
    • Productivity
  6. An Improved vim-rspec Workflow

    Run single specs and entire features with vim-rspec.

    Chris Thorn
    March 24, 2015
    • Web
    • Vim
    • Testing

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