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Making an emperor bed
In 2012 or 2013, I stumbled across the Wikipedia page for Bed Sizes [ 1 ] and discovered that the UK had two sizes larger than America's King or California King: The Emperor (7'x7') and The Caesar (8'x7')
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
Learn the image optimisation strategies I employed to shrink the page weight on my homepage from 1.1 MB to just under 450 KB
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Keeping a plaintext “did” file
Time flies by when you’re learning how to code. Its super important to take a second every once in a while to simple write down what you did during the past mental sprint. Writing down what you learned solidifies the knowledge.
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Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Chrome developer tools to master
With the advent of modern frameworks, ES6 and the increasing risk of security everyday, knowing how to use Chrome developer tools can give you a major boost in productivity and help in easy diagnosis of a website’s performance. This article aims to give an overview of different features available in Chrome developer…
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My favorite apps on F-Droid
I often recommend F-Droid to my Android-using friends. F-Droid is an alternative app store which contains only Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It's great because the apps are almost all not evil. Did you know that a flashlight app doesn't need access to your contacts, location, and pictures? Did you know that…
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Something about functions in Bash (2017)
Here's something you didn't know about bash functions. Usually when you write a function you do this: function name () { ... } Right? I know you do, because that's how everyone writes functions. Well, here's the thing. In bash { ... } doesn't mean "function's body" or "function's scope" as in JavaScript or C. It's...
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Designing an email-only Slack interface
On the design of Stop Slacking , which lets you interact via email with the poor souls trapped in the endless, no-agenda meeting that is Slack.
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A system to help you remember more of what you read
Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had…
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Cool Retro Terminal
I often don't blog about this kind of stuff. Yesterday I friend of mine showed me this awesome project called cool-retro-term . When yo...
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Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo
I recently migrated my personal website (the source code is on GitHub ) from Jekyll to Hugo . It was mostly painless, and now I’m eager to write more often and put more content on my website.
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Learn just a little Awk (2010)
An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.
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Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
A couple of weeks ago, I started to work with Emacs, and I grow fonder of it every day. During a very short time period, it has become my go-to editor for nearly everything I do on my computer, including (but not limited to) planning my Todos (in org-mode, to be precise), setting up my agenda (org-mode again), taking…
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Lobotomizing Gnome
I have pretty basic needs from my desktop. I do 99% of my work using just three programs: a terminal emulator, Emacs, and Firefox. I don't want a lot of bells and whistles in my desktop, and I really just want it to get out of the way so I can do my work.
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Unquantified
The only real valuable thing is intuition. – Albert Einstein A year ago I got rid of my scale, a simple act that turned out to be the catalyst for a year’s worth of quiet introspection and experimentation in removing quantification from my life. A year later I’m quantifiably more ignorant about myself than I have been…
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Modern CMake short tutorial and best practice
The end of semester is here and, as I grade our students semestral works, I get to use CMakeLists of dubious quality. After seeing the same errors repeat over and over again, I decided to write a short tutorial towards writing simple CMakeLists.
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My favorite principle for code quality
The Embedded Design principle, Jimmy Koppel's favorite principle for code quality, shown via caching code that looks fine but invites bugs.
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Deconstructing Kitty
So today we look inside these amazing cats that can somehow keep on wavin’ using less than 15 microwatts (!) of power. If you are into either ultra low-power or extreme design-for-manufacture, the you will want to see what is inside of these guys!
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Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB
Datasette 0.22 is out with the most significant new feature I’ve added since the initial release: faceted browse. Datasette lets you deploy an instant web UI and JSON API for …
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Fridge 0.1
Imagine something really cool, like a fridge connected to a powerwall, powered entirely by solar panels. What could be cooler than that?
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Git submodules revisited
Possibly not as horrible as I'd thought
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