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Bad Emacs defaults
I was working on a new installation where I didn’t have this in place yet and I kept trying to update a shell function, re-sourcing it but it never changed. Turns out it was loading from a backup~ of the same file.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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UK Address Oddities (2018)
A few of my previous blog posts have been about quirks in the UK postal address system. As a result of these posts being moderately popular, people have contacted me to tell me about other such quirks. This pleases me greatly – I like quirks.
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Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code
An inky color scheme for prose and code.
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Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting - Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than 'good old telnet'
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Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
Explore Paperless-ngx, the game-changer in document management. I'll take you through my adoption journey, Docker setup, and why it's 100 times better than paper filing. Say goodbye to paper chaos!
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Emacs and shellcheck
Julia Evans had a great talk called Making Hard Things Easy . One of the takeaways for me was that I should be using tools for parts of a ...
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Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
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What is in that .git directory?
Well, I think most of you reading this blog use git more or less on a daily basis, but have you ever looked into what is in the .git folder that git creates? Let's explore it together and understand what is going on in there.
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How to add documentation to your product life cycle
An evaluation of different processes used to create documentation, and their advantages and disadvantages for the organization, the customer, and the writer.
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Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust
Nikolai Vazquez is a software engineer, designer, and musician.
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Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
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Hey, computer, make me a font
This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.
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Using Emacs as $EDITOR
A post on how I configure ZSH and Emacs in order to use the latter as $EDITOR.
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Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets
I've had the experience of using GitHub as a maintainer for very large open source projects (1000+ contributors), as an engineer for very large closed source corporate projects, and everything smaller. Through those experiences up to today, GitHub pull requests is where I spend almost all of my time while on GitHub…
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Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose
Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦
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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
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Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”
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Ghostty 👻 – Mitchell Hashimoto
My writings about Ghostty, the terminal emulator I work on.
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State of HTML 2023 now open
While the survey will be open for 3 weeks, responses entered within the first 9 days (until October 1st) will have a much higher impact on the Web, as preliminary data will be used to inform Interop 2024 proposals.
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
I love GitHub Actions: I’ve been a daily user of it since 2019 for both professional and hobbyist projects, and have found it invaluable to both my overall productivity and peace of mind. I’m just old enough to have used Travis CI et al. professionally before moving to GitHub Actions, and I do not look back with joy 1…
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Why Kakoune
Recently I’ve stumbled upon a video about Kakoune, a code editor: Idiot user tries to use Kakoune (for notes? Also Helix?). Funnily enough, I was mentioned in this video, which was a surprise, and made me laugh for quite a while: Let’s go back to the official plugins page.
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Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
Installing Windows strictly through the Command Line is an important tool to have. If windows changes the installer or out of box experience, you can bypass any changes with this guide!
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Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
Organic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics.
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LaTeX for tabletop
Get started on using LaTeX for writing your tabletop rulebooks, adventures, and zines.
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Tech Independence
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"