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How to make Slack less bad for you
Slack claim to be in the business of "making your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive". We’re about to be cynical, so let’s acknowledge that this claim is probably at least par...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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Removing the PowerShell curl alias?
PowerShell is a spiced up command line shell made by Microsoft. According to some people, it is a really useful and good shell alternative. Already a long time ago, we got bug reports from confused users who couldn't use curl from their PowerShell prompts and it didn't take long until we figured out that Microsoft ……
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How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
From Markdown to paperback and Kindle without proprietary software.
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Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands
By using a combination of curl, grep, cut, sort, uniq and other common bash utilities it is possible to extract structured data from Wikipedia and compute insights without writing a full program.
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Python packaging is good now
setup.py is your friend. It’s real sorry about what happened last time.
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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
In 2013, when it became clear, primarily through Edward Snowden’s heroic actions, that the level of snooping by the US and other governments was far greater than any of us would have thought, I moved all of my data out of the US and of course blogged about it (that blog post has been read almost 70000 times; I think…
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Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea
I’ve been saying for years that it’s bad security advice, that it encourages poor passwords. Lorrie Cranor, now the FTC’s chief technologist, agrees: By studying the data, the researchers identified common techniques account holders used when they were required to change passwords. A password like “tarheels#1”, for…
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Lumen: Auto brightness based on screen contents
Lumen is a menu bar application for macOS that magically sets the screen brightness based on your screen contents.
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Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors
Thoughts on software engineering and engineering management
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The Dreaded Weekly Status Email
I remember the first time I had to write one of these puppies. I had just been promoted to manager at Yahoo back in 2000, and was running a small team. I was told to “write a status email covering …
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We have an epidemic of bad posture
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
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Richer command line interfaces
This post is preceded by a description of two types of command line interfaces . The more command line-like of these two types integrates into a normal shell session ( python , telnet , bash ) instead of using the alternate screen to present a fullscreen text user interface ( top , vim , emacs ). Sometimes programs…
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Spawn your shell like it's the 90s again
This article is a quick walk-through to gaining root privileges in the NetBSD, since it's so 90s you can play Captain Jack [3] , or [4] [5] if you prefer polish disco, just to feel the atmosphere while reading. Really, do it! ;)
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Windows 10 “Developer Mode”
The new Windows 10 update coming in a few weeks. It's called Windows 10 ...
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Getting a network trace from a single application
I recently wanted a way to get a network packet trace from a specific application. My googling showed me an old askubuntu thread that solve...
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Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet
Penetration testing tools cheat sheet, a high level overview / quick reference cheat sheet for penetration testing.
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How bad is the Windows command line really?
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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Workman Keyboard layout
Introduction The Problem with Colemak Back to the Drawing Board Introducing the Workman Layout Pros and Cons Test Results Key Usage Visualization Tests Using Popular Books Downloads Recommended Key…