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5M+ Wordpress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin
Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support
We are back with our first bug-fix release for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3! The improved v2020.3.1 polishes the recently released features and supports Apple Silicon! That’s right, Apple fans, you can now wo
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Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
Planner keeps track of all your tasks, projects, and goals in one beautifully simple place.
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How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.
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Introducing the Open Library Explorer
At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo) , Open Library unveiled the beta for what it’s calling the Library Explorer : an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. If the tagline doesn’t grab your attention, wait until you see it in action:
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Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version
If you work with Apple in some capacity, you know that they’re not very likely to admit mistakes. I’m not aware of Apple publishing postmortems after outages or providing details about known issues. So it’s up to the developer and admin communities at large to help each other learn about outages and potential causes…
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Commits are shapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1
Apple has recently shipped the first Macs based on the new Apple M1 chips. Today we have a public preview that you can download and try out!
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AWS CloudShell
No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration…
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Kate is 20 years old
Kate just turned 20 today! As announced before, Kate turned twenty today. When did it start? Here again my initial request to the KWrite maintainer about my work on a 'MDI KWrite' later called Kate (sorry, German & spelling mistakes): From: Cullmann Christoph <crossfire@babylon2k.de> To: digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de…
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Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
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The complexity of building a lie-down workstation
A couple of weeks ago, I started getting texts and emails from friends with an attachment to a blog post. A person named Paul had engineered and built himself a lay-down desk, wrote about his experience, and posted it on HN. Creating a lie-down desk is a big project in itself. To make even a static lie-down workstation
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Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]
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Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3 , a new version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip .
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Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
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How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique
The spaced repetition system is a learning technique based on the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve. Learn more about why it is effective and how to use it.
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Music Production on Guix System
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
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Cover Your Tracks
Today, we’re pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about letting users know that browser fingerprinting was...
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Transitioning from Docker to Podman
Learn how to install Podman, practice its basic commands, transition away from Docker, and set up Apache HTTP Server 2.4 in a CentOS container with Podman.
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Moving from Macbook to Linux
The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.