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The $40 Standup Desk

Resources to Hack Design

Tools I Use - tmux

Randall Degges2012140 points58 commentsTools & Productivity details

Why I switched from GNU screen to tmux: horizontal and vertical splits, sane defaults, and auto-arranged panes. Plus my short .tmux.conf and resources.

How I Wrote and Self-Published a Book: Step by Step

A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

Justin Williams2011234 points120 commentsTools & Productivity details

Visualizing Device Utilization

Bryan Cantrill2011110 points4 commentsSystems & Performance details

Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC)

Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers

The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal

Zed Shaw2011204 points87 commentsTools & Productivity details

Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Scott Hanselman2011226 points81 commentsTools & Productivity details

Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...

Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

John Kary2011123 points15 commentsTools & Productivity details

Vim: revisited

What’s New In Emacs 24

Mickey Petersen2011109 points39 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Part one of my annotated NEWS file for Emacs 24

Imagine a world where Bash supports JSON.

Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system

Tyranny of the Tools

Whatever works for you

Marco Arment2011198 points66 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

In my earlier 20s when I knew everything, I was a much bigger evangelist for my technology choices. I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot. But I used to be much more annoying with pushing my choices onto others.

Why Emacs?

Bozhidar Batsov2011169 points128 commentsTools & Productivity details

Prelude

How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive

John Graham-Cumming2011119 points111 commentsHardware & Electronics details

So you've got a DVD stuck in the external USB SuperDrive that connects to the MacBook Air? And you've tried hitting the magic Eject button ...

Online services our startup subscribes to

SEO tricks from Patio11

I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

Arduino Controlled Dishwasher

Explore the rise of retrofication in the automotive industry, blending classic design with modern technology for sustainable solutions and reducing environmental impact.

Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet

Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing

Peteris Krumins2011125 points28 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Testling now has moved to Testling-CI Don't use anything described below as it doesn't work anymore All questions about Testling-CI: feedback@browserling.com We have amazing news at Browserling. We just launched a new product called Testling! Testling is automated cross-browser JavaScript testing tool. You write the...

I hate cut-and-paste

Jacques Mattheij2011120 points66 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

Tired of Being Tired

Leo Babauta2011186 points100 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details