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An independent developer released a browser-based tool that lets users practice Vim editing skills through short, hands-on challenges covering motions, text objects, search, marks, counts, and repeats. The tool requires no sign-up or account, stores no user data, and runs in a real Vim editor within the browser, though it needs a desktop with a physical keyboard.
A developer launched HackerBooks, a site modeled on HackerTube that aggregates and ranks books referenced in Hacker News discussions. The interface includes navigation shortcuts for browsing top, rising, and personalized book lists, similar to keyboard controls used on HN itself.
Raymond Chen recounts that Windows 7 added a right-click context menu to the classic vertical scroll bar, including a 'Scroll Here' option letting users jump directly to a clicked position instead of dragging the thumb. A lesser-known companion shortcut, holding Shift while clicking the scroll bar, does the same thing. He notes that most modern app frameworks have replaced native Win32 scroll bars with custom ones that only partially preserve these features: Chromium-based apps support Shift+click but not the context menu, WPF supports both, and WinUI supports neither.