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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
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Org as a spreadsheet system: a short introduction
This short tutorial will go through the basics that you need to know if you want to use Org as a spreadsheet system.
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Network Link Conditioner
App developers often forget to test how their apps perform under less-than-ideal networking environments. Learn how you can use the Network Link conditioner to simulate a spotty Internet connection on your device.
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Clojure - Getting Started
Clojure is a dynamic development environment where you interact with your program while you write it, growing and adding to it while it’s running. To work with Clojure you need an editor that supports evaluation in source files and structural editing (working with nested forms in addition to character editing).
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bliki: Test Pyramid
Write most of your tests at a low level (unit tests) with a few broad-stack tests, eg via UI. UI tests tend to be fragile and slow.
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Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
The Wirecutter’s review of the IKEA air purifier is a mishmash of scientific errors, shoddy testing, and self-contradictory logic.
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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
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Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
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Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
Update - May 2019 Windows 10 version 1903 has now been released and allows an important update to WSL that allows Windows applications and tools to access
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Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
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Using unix as your IDE
This series has been independently translated into Chinese , Russian , Turkish , and Korean , and formatted as an ebook .
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Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere
A sad example of how easy it is to dismiss certain design principles because it does not seem relevant at the time.
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward
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The Compact Calendar 2023-2024
The Compact Calendar presents days as a continuous candy bar of time. Weeks are presented as a stack of available time with no gaps, making it easier to count-out days naturally as you think.
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On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git
This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. It isn't that git is so complicated that you need a large document to take care of your particular problem, it is more that the set of things that you might have done is so large that different…
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Bracketed paste mode (2013)
One of the least well known, and therefore least used, features of many terminal emulators is bracketed paste mode . When you are in bracketed paste mode and you paste into your terminal the content will be wrapped by the sequences \e[200~ and \e[201~ .
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Sleep hacks: How to Become an Early Riser
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle
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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl…
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org-drill.el – flashcards and spaced repetition for org-mode
Org-Drill is an extension for Org mode . Org-Drill uses a spaced repetition algorithm to conduct interactive "drill sessions", using org files as sources of facts to be memorised. Each topic is treated as a "flash card". The material to be remembered is presented to the student in random order. The student rates his…
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Getting Started • Zettelkasten Method
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.
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How to Report Bugs Effectively
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…
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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
You're not alone, jclancy. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn't escape without a bit of help. Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a common joke among developers.