Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing
Rest in peace Bram lad. This article stuck with me from early on and had a big impact on my approch to the everyday labour of coding.
There's something magic in injecting meaning into the boring mechanical aspects of your work. Since reading this post I've lost count of how many times I've heard "But the typing isn't the bottleneck" from people who get less than half as much work done as I do.