Refresh Firefox with a Keystroke from Sublime Text

Browser Sync is nice but sometimes it is not available or it’s just plain overkill.

I wanted to always be able to refresh my web browser window with a keystroke while still keeping my code editor open and focused.

I use the 64-bit version of Firefox Developer Edition for Windows.

The simple AutoHotkey snippet below will refresh the current Firefox Developer Edition edition tab when the F5 key is pressed within Sublime Text, while still keeping the focus on Sublime Text.

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Too Lazy for Food: My Experience with Soylent

I try to automate as much of the boring aspects of life as possible.

Eating healthy takes too much time, too often. And it’s expensive.

I usually skip eating anything more complicated than a granola bar for breakfast and end up feeling mentally sluggish and generally horrible right up until lunch. I need to manage my blood sugar better.

Enter the meal replacement Soylent, currently popular with programmers and various other nerd-types. I read about it on MakeUseOf and was convinced to give it a fair shot.

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