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I found myself trying to figure out how to disable something called NeoComplete (previously known as NeoComplCache) when editing markdown in Vim.

It was colliding with my Markdown stuff pretty badly and had really bad suggestions anyway (I mean, I’m writing text, not code… so no surprise) and I was getting annoyed of turning it off by hand.

So I Googled for a solution and I found someones .vimrc and while it was written for NeoComplCache, it was easy to just change all the NeoComplCache strings to NeoComplete.

My .vimrc actually tries to use NeoComplete and if I can’t run it (i.e. Vim isn’t new enough or doesn’t have Lua compiled in) then I fall back to NeoComplCache.

So I went to check if I had similar code for NeoComplCache… and I did. In fact, it was the same code.

“Huh”, I thought, “I must’ve borrowed this from the same .vimrc earlier”

I double checked the URL of the .vimrc I was borrowing code from… and it was my .vimrc.

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Some co-workers were trying to reimplement our builds to use CMake. They were having trouble using xsltproc to “compile” files (e.g. convert them from .xml to something else).

Guess what they found.

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I used to work with the talented Carol. She left the company and went to work elsewhere.

When I next saw her, she stomped up to me and complained:

Whenever I Google for the answer to something, you’re there! Question on StackOverflow? You answered it. I go to file a bug on GitHub, you’ve already filed it or commented on it. Why won’t you go away?!?!

She was kidding… I think.

But the point is, I spend a lot of time contributing back to the community. Not necessarily by writing code (I do that, too) but by filing bugs, answering questions, adding helpful comments to issues, etc.

It isn’t that hard to write a bug, answer a question, etc. and it can be really helpful for others… or drive them mad.