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Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 754 posts.
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New Kind of Paper
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
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Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.
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VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
VS Code collects telemetry data to help understand Microsoft how to improve the product. Is it above board? Can I turn it off completely?
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Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password
1Password integrates with Pwned Passwords, a feature of Have I Been Pwned that allows you to check if your passwords have been leaked on the Internet.
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After the Deadline: Acquired
Today I have big news to announce for After the Deadline. But first, I have to tell you a story. I left the Air Force in March 2008 to pursue my dream of launching a startup and to finish graduate…
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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage
[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it first.] [Note 2018-09-01:...
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How I spend less time on YouTube
Maybe I'm paranoid. But, I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless content. In this blog post, I'll describe a simple trick that…
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Cranking
This domain is parked. There is no active website here.
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Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
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Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)
I've seen all these studies that show how a 100ms improvement in page load time has a significant effect on page views, conversion rate, etc., but I'd never actually tried to optimize my site. This blog is a static Octopress site, hosted on GitHub Pages. Static sites are supposed to be fast, and GitHub Pages uses…
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Solving My Email Problem
Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a TODO list. Or at least my inbox is a TODO list and email is the protocol for putting stuff on it. Here’s the problem. It is a s**tty TODO list. Any one of you can put something on my TODO list. And I don’t want that.
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How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”
Don't break the chain.
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The time has come to replace file systems
The time has come to replace file systems!
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The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (2014)
APT 1.0 was released on the 1. April 2014 [0]! The first APT version was announced on the 1. April exactly 16 years ago [1]. The big news for this version is that we included a new “apt”…
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Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.
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Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens…
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Spinning Up in Deep RL
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Practical Tmux
Today I switched over completely from GNU Screen to the more modern BSD-licensed alternative, tmux . After making sure that tmux had replacements for all Screen’s key features, I took the plunge, and haven’t looked back. The project’s webpage has a complete list of features available under tmux, but as an everyday…
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Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the Windows Team. I installed Windows 8 on my home ...
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Interactive Docs with Markdoc
Markdoc delivers a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience. It enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.
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Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Published: 18-09-2014 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article