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Idiot Proof Git
Aliases, etc that have made rebase-based workflows in Git much less advanced feeling.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
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My DIY ergonomic travel workstation with aluminum and magnets
Ever since moving from NYC to SF to work at Anthropic I’ve been visiting NYC and working remotely quite often. So I designed myself a travel workstation that lets me get the best of ergonomics and packability.
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Writing down what I do in Obsidian
An update on my years-long habit, with a new tool.
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Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Developer, writer, indie hacker · 📍 Montreal, QC
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Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing
Tech-Tutorials, Howtos and buying advice2022208 points161 commentscited by 3Hardware & Electronics details
Audio CD ripping - optical drive accuracy listing
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Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing
The unedited, writerly feel of monospaced fonts meets the readability and legibility of proportional ones.
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Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the…
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Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
BYOPM is a self hosted portable Password Manager implementation based on BitWarden and Raspberry PI Zero.
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Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
This article covers a gentle introduction to the shell nushell
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The art of the desk setup (2021)
What are the principles underlying the ideal desk setup? How do we balance great design with modern technology? Let’s plunge into my desk setup and my philosophy behind it.
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Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
The blog post Streaming services lost the plot detailed how streaming services have become the thing they were made to destroy. Like cable networks and satellite companies before, they're raising rates (at a rate higher than inflation), stuffing their content libraries with filler that's not even worth the bandwidth…
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Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
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Programming Portals
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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Vim After 15 Years (2017)
My earlier posts about using Vim were well received and it's about time for an update. I've been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here's a snapshot of my current state.
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The cult of dd (2017)
You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)) that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century.
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Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
The Advantage360 Professional is the successor to the well-known Advantage2. It comes with several new features, such as Adjustable Split, Wireless connection, Tenting, ZMK (highly customizable firmware), and many other minor things. In this blog post, I will explain the significant design changes and my experiences…
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TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold.
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Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ We're professionals. We can handle the complexity and the density
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PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its (2021)
Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
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Koch method to learn Morse
The Koch method is based on exposing the student to full-speed Morse from day one. The first lesson starts with just two characters, played in full speed. The student must "copy" them (i.e. writing them down or typing them, like in this page). Once 90% of the characters are correctly "copied", the student can go move…
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Digital Gardening
A website is a lot like a garden.
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Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
You might be doing a lot more than your Apple Watch is giving you credit for…