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It seems to me unnecessary that the the popular JS testing frameworks have become so large and hard-to-grok, so I wrote a minimal one.

(I'm one of the authors) Love seeing this on HN today! It seems to get some front page attention every couple of years. Thank you everyone for the encouragement! Related: last week…

You crushed it Jez! I wish we could work on more projects together.

I wanted to more efficiently edit spreadsheets, so I implemented Vim modal shortcuts in Google Sheets in this Chrome extension. Enjoy! (I also wrote the Vimium extension.)

Hey folks, over the years my job role has skewed to using a code editor less and using spreadsheets more. Coming from Emacs and Vim, I wanted my Google Sheets usage to be more keyb…

The five of us who built this spend a lot of time reviewing code each day and thought it should be less depressing and more fun. Let us know if you have improvement ideas, or even …

I wrote this for TextMate. Not nearly as good as built-in support, but I program 10 hours a day with it and it's saved me millions of keystrokes. https://github.com/philc/textmatev…

I wrote LiveCSS for this purpose. https://github.com/ooyala/livecss It's far simpler in that it just reloads your CSS continually. We use it all the time at Ooyala to put our favor…

Ooyala in Mountain View. http://www.ooyala.com/about/careers

For those who really want "TextMate + vim", until the newer options mature, you can try this. https://github.com/philc/textmatevim

Additionally, try typing fewer characters when you cd in the general case: https://github.com/philc/fuzzycd I've been using this for a few years and it's been a joy.

Won't CTRL+T (or CMD+T) open a new tab and focus the URL bar?

In addition to escape, link hints (type "f") also work on that [x] button.

Unfortunately Safari doesn't really have a well-developed extensions system. Until they add one, extensions like this will only be available for chrome and firefox.

I'm one of the developers for Ninjawords. Thanks everyone for sharing in our frustration. I thought this was a bit ridiculous as we were going back and forth with Apple, but I didn…

Also consider Heroku if it's a ruby webapp you're building. It's free until you need more resources, and is zero-fuss to get something deployed and set up.

Great idea. I'd like to see what new stuff people have been doing with js. I built http://ninjawords.com and http://jjot.com about a year ago. I feel like 200 would be too many. wi…

That's really neat. Nice work.

I've wanted a good implementation of web-irc for a long time. That alone is cool enough for me. However, the UI is really bad; I'm not sure where to begin. Once I log into an irc s…

stikkit is cool, but doesn't quite hit the nail we're aiming for. It turns out to be another wiki product, similar to BaseCamp, while Jjot is a light-weight WYSIWYG notes applicati…

Hey, glad to find this here. I was just about to post it. This is my startup; I'm working with one other guy full time on it. We applied to ycombinator, got the in-person interview…

Both of those sound just fine, and I think the extra clutter you'll have in your namcespaces will be worth the extra exposure you get from not forcing people to sign up.

Juwo, this is the most confusing thing I've ever looked at. I have a feeling the product is not very focused itself, and thus is hard to convey. If you can't convey it in a single …