Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 754 posts.
With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
A short note on two related rules of thumb.
Postgres Explain Visualizer (Pev) is a tool I wrote to make EXPLAIN output easier to grok. It creates a graphical representation of the query plan.
Learn how to pair lock your iPhone to break law enforcement forensics tools and protect your data.
I recently received a tantalizing email from a reader I’ve never met: Sam Henri-Gold . Sam showed me how you can key in a couple write commands in the macOS…
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
Learning the lesson of vi
How I built a Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch for my two 4K monitors for $30.
My name is Brian Hauer and these are my rants about technology, politics, and anything else that irks me.
A summary of the best ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
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A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
You can make a DIY air purifier in 30s. To test if it works, I generated smoke, and measured how well it removes tiny particles.
2021-11-13 page moved to http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY
Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold.
I’ve spent the past four months in Shenzhen, China, modifying an iPhone 7 to add a fully functional headphone jack. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time anyone has done anything like this.
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
Update (December 2016): Version 2 of this guide is now available! Announcement post here. Links in this post are updated to send you to the latest and greatest version. Click here to download 8,760 Hours v2 The end of a year […]
I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI.
One of the 'Elite 8' Pizzerias in the US by Every Day with Rachael Ray One of America's Perfect Pizzeria's: Zagat And Many Other Awards Main Restaurant Website
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
