Emmet is a Visual Studio Code feature that expands short abbreviations into full HTML, using CSS selector syntax. I describe how I discovered it and demonstrate the basics: creating elements with classes and ids, nesting child elements, inserting text, and repeating items such as list entries...
Working through MIT’s Missing Semester lecture on Vim, I cover what the editor is, its keyboard-driven approach to editing, and its main modes (normal, insert, and command). I also link to a couple of Vim learning guides and argue that a basic grasp of Vim is a worthwhile requirement for any programmer, since it’s available nearly everywhere the command line is...
