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How I “hacked” Kayak and booked a cheaper flight
Learn how I saved $100 on Kayak flights by using a VPN to book from a different location. Discover this simple travel hack to slash your flight costs.
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Git add -p
The Pragmatic Programmer advocates you should know your editor inside and out. So why don't you know your version control system just as well? Discover git add "patch mode" and learn how to make more concisely crafted commits leading to a cleaner git history and more friends.
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Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows
I've been using this Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro for the last few weeks, and lemme tell ...
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PSA: Back Up Your Shit
Here in this modern world, you talk to your friends over all kinds of different media: SMS, Facebook, Twitter DMs, GChat, and maybe even AIM if you're really old. These conversations aren't ephemeral and disposable, they are your life, and you want to save them forever. You don't just throw your letters in the trash…
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How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53
How to host your static website like Jekyll with Amazon S3 static website hosting and CloudFront CDN. This will make your website much faster and more responsive to visitors all around the world.
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Shell programming with bash: by example, by counter-example
As an interactive shell, bash is a terse language for initiating and directing computations.
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Very funny, gdb. Ve-ery funny
Have you ever opened a core dump with gdb, tried to print a C++ std::vector element, and got the following?
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4K is for programmers
My name is Brian Hauer and these are my rants about technology, politics, and anything else that irks me.
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Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes. Every day ideas flit through my head, ideas for essays, for characters, for jokes. Just now I catch a glimpse of […]
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Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
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What’s New In Emacs 24.4
Discover what's new in Emacs 24.4 as I annotate most of the changes made to the new Emacs version.
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A useful Caps Lock key
Updated: This configuration no longer works in macOS Sierra or greater due to changes in Karabiner. I’ve written some new instructions.
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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An engineer's emergency kit business card
NEW! You can now buy a version of this board! (Read more .) Circuit board business cards have been done . But since circuit boards ...
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CMS Trap
Avoid architectural premature optimization
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How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”
EDIT: The original article author, Rob Ousbey, has popped up on various social media sites to remind everyone to use this tool/knowledge responsibly. I agree. Please be responsible.
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are ...
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My tmux setup
I’ve been using tmux as my main terminal multiplexer for about 3 years now and have refined my configuration over time to fit my daily workflow. Which is usually a mix of writing code, chef recipes, remote login into different servers and various shell tasks. This is a flexible setup that doesn’t concentrate too much…
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Wounded QR Codes
How do QR codes work? How much is it possible to distort one and still have it readable?
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