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System test Updated 2025-07-16

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Unit test Updated 2025-07-16

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Ciro Santilli's minor projects Updated 2025-07-16

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Major projects can be seen at: Section "The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli".

These are some smaller projects that Ciro Santilli carried out. They are all either for fun, or misguided use of his time done by an younger self:

small naughty stuff is listed at: Section "Ciro Santilli's naughty projects"
Because Ciro cares about education, around 2014 he looked into markup languages and version control for books, before he noticed that this approach was useless and that ranking algorithms are all that matter:
- GitLab: very important to Ciro because he wanted to base Booktree on it.
  He was the number 2 contributor from 2013 to 2015.
  He implemented some large features and several smaller improvements.
  For this reason, Ciro was made a moderator of /r/gitlab in 2016-05.
  GitLab sent Ciro a free swag bottle later after they got funding on to thank him for his contributions: Figure 1. "Ciro Santilli in a dune lake in Jericoacoara, Brazil, with his GitLab bottle". He had to pay for the beach trip though.
  Figure 1.
  Ciro Santilli in a dune lake in Jericoacoara, Brazil, with his GitLab bottle
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- Markdown Style Guide
- karlcow/markdown-testsuite improvements: Ciro has implemented the test runner a few months before CommonMark left stealth mode and killed it instantaneously.
  At least MacFarlane was able to reuse part of the HTML normalizer he wrote, and he extracted the multi-engine comparison to: CommonMark Implementation Compare.
  Playing with this project has led Ciro to find and report many Markdown bugs/bad behavior on other software, e.g. GitHub and MultiMarkdown-4.
- isaacs/github public unofficial GitHub issue tracker: he has commented there so often that he was made a collaborator
- Node Express Sequelize Next.js realworld example app

VCDVCD: value change dump command-line pretty printer!!! The type of thing that a billion dollar EDA tool vendor will never implement ;-)

0 time
1 counter_tb.clock
2 counter_tb.enable
3 counter_tb.out[1:0]
4 counter_tb.reset
5 counter_tb.top.out[1:0]

0 1 2 3 4 5
===========
0 1 0 x 0 x
1 0 0 x 1 x
2 1 0 0 1 0
3 0 0 0 0 0
4 1 0 0 0 0
5 0 1 0 0 0

Vim: sometimes Ciro want crazy and wasted his time with Vimscript:
- Vim Markdown: the owner plasticboy was really nice and made Ciro a collaborator for his contributions, notably a live ToC outline and the header mappings
- Vundle Plugin Tester, which he used to start the testing system of Vim Markdown
Breakthrough Message: aliens!!! Creative/media project, powered by some Python scripts.
making Google Maps reviews of places he's visited to help other people. Ciro's photos reached 1 million views in 2019: www.google.com/maps/contrib/106598607405640635523/photos (archive)

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Hell Updated 2025-07-16

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Hermitian matrix Updated 2025-07-16

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honza/vim-snippets Updated 2025-07-16

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github.com/honza/vim-snippets

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List of Wikis Updated 2025-07-16

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Septuagint Updated 2025-07-16

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It is fun to see that some New Testament sources cite this Greek version rather than more ancient ones because they or their listeners would not understand the other original languages.

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Vimium Updated 2025-07-16

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vimium.github.io/

Since you can't escape shitty browser GUIs and live in the command line, the next best thing you can do is to bring Vim bindings to your browser :-)

There is one major annoyance: you can't use ESC to leave the address bar focus, but using Tab as a workaround works: