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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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Storage for Photographers, Part 2
How a 12TB Synology DS415+ NAS changed my digital life: Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. I captured 275GB of photos and videos on my last trip. Just one trip! And I'm just a hobbyist photographer with a mere 12MP camera. If you shoot with any regularity and a 20MP+…
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How I’d redesign piano sheet music
How I’d redesign piano sheet music UPDATE: five years later, I’ve finally published a follow-up to this popular article. This time, I’m trying to do the same thing, but in a plain text format …
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Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google
Mostly a visual journalist, I love tech and building things. I am an award winning photographer who has captured life through the lens in Central Pennsylvania for over 40 years. I also enjoy writing stories to blend with my visuals. On my off time, I am usually busy with construction projects on my rental properties…
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Just Wear Headphones
Matt Blodgett on topics occasionally germane to software development.
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Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox
A nice blog
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Vim's speed is not really the point (2013)
I am a Vim user. And a Vim fan.I was fiddling around for some time, you know, just knowing the basics, because it is convenient to do small changes on servers without having to worry about installi…
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Google Photos – Can I get out?
But it begs the question: what happens with my photos once I hand them over? Should I want to move elsewhere, what are my options?
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Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints
In my spare time I’ve been working on a database of Japanese prints for a little over 3.5 years now. I’m fully aware that I’ve never actually written about this, personally very important, project on my blog — until now. Unfortunately this isn’t a post explaining that project. I do still hope to write more about the…
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How I do my computing
As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (called Libreboot when it was installed, but now called GNU Boot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free…
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Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards
This blog entry is part of a series covering: Logging into your laptop and decrypting it automatically Encrypting and decrypting any passwords or secure info you have Sending and receiving encrypted mails Providing 2-step authentication codes for your web logins Doing all of the above on your mobile phone…
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Git in six hundred words
(This essay is a companion piece to Gitlet, my implementation of Git in JavaScript.)
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Grepping logs is still terrible
The other day, I wrote a controversial piece about why grepping logs is terrible , the reactions were interesting. I've got some great feedback (thanks!), and there were a lot of hostility too. I've been called incompetent, lazy, stupid and a systemd-fanboy and various other things. By people who didn't read past the…
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Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text
This is a companion to my post on the expression problem and tables . In this post I explore ways we can benefit from manipulating rich representations of programs (structural editing).
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Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
I love to travel and for a long time I have been looking for the largest & most detailed world map available. ? I couldn't find the perfect one so I did it by myself. Here's what I've learned from working for more than 1,5 years on this.
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GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper
[Other posts in this series: 2,3,4.] I had the chance to have dinner tonight with Paul Ginsparg of arXiv fame, and he graciously gave me some feedback on a very speculative idea that I’ve been kicking around: augmenting — or even replacing — the current academic article model with collaborative d
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Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text
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My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking
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