Vim REST Console (GitHub: diepm/vim-rest-console, License: MIT) is a plugin for sending and viewing HTTP requests from RESTful services. It uses cURL, and allows you to type URLs and then get responses back in a separate window.

Paper Color

Paper Color (GitHub: NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme, License: MIT) by Nguyen Nguyen is a material design-inspired theme. It supports several…

ShellCheck is a static analysis tool for shell scripts. Shell scripting isn’t necessarily difficult, but the syntax is hard to get the hang of, particularly if you rarely write shell scripts. ShellCheck is a Haskell program that runs through your scripts and provides warnings and suggestions for…

The Neovim.app project for Mac OS X has recently got multiple window support. It’s starting to feel closer to MacVim, although you’ll still need to build it yourself.

I tried sourcing my .vimrc in it, and it worked pretty well without many changes…

If, like me, you install lots of Vim plugins regularly, then why not autocomplete plugin names based on VimAwesome? Junegunn Choi posted a gist to do this, and it’s on Hacker News if you want to upvote it.

betterga (GitHub: manicmaniac/betterga) by Ryosuke Ito is an extended version of the :ascii command. This command is typically invoked with ga, and shows the ASCII value of the character under the cursor in decimal, hexidecimal, and octal.

Vison (GitHub: Quramy/vison) by Yosuke Kurami is a plugin for writing JSON schema files. It handles completion for keys and values, and works with downloadable JSON schemas that are intended to be used for auto-completion.

Yesterday Tim Pope published a new plugin called dotenv.vim (GitHub: tpope/vim-dotenv, License: Vim). It reads variables from a .env or Procfile and sets the corresponding variables in Vim.

This is useful if you have Procfiles for web applications and want to trigger the same…

That Arduino IDE isn’t too bad, but you’d probably prefer to use Vim for Arduino development. Hardy (GitHub: 4Evergreen4/vim-hardy) provides Arduino support for Vim. With it, you can type :ArduinoVerify to check an Arduino file, and :ArduinoUpload to compile and upload it…