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Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done
Modern mobile devices contain a myriad of distractions and addictive platforms. My vices are Twitter and TikTok.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
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Summary of Atomic Habits
A summary of the best ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Giving Haiku Beta 3 a try
Projects and Writings of Marc Carson.
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Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
A hard reality of C and C++ software development on Windows is that there has never been a good, native C or C++ standard library implementation for the platform. A standard library should abstract over the underlying host facilities in order to ease portable software development. On Windows, C and C++ is so poorly…
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macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
About 3 years ago I wrote about my Linux Desktop Setup and having used pretty much the same software setup for 10-15 years. My setup used to be heavily keyboard based. Now for work I am for the first time using a macOS-based Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU. I spent the last 3 weeks using it as a daily driver, tweaking…
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LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
This short guide collects some examples of drawing finite state machines using the Tikz LaTeX library.
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How I Build
My idea of a vacation might be weird to some. Sure, I like sunshine, I like beaches – but more than all that, I like making stuff with computers.
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Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
I recently purchased a book for my MSC which was only available via a crappy Android app. There was no obvious way to decrypt it to read on a more sensible device, so I resorted to the ancient art of screenscraping. This is a quick-and-dirty way to grab images of the pages and convert them to a standard PDF using…
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DIY Mail
I have another post about half-written that I will finish up and publish soon, but in the mean time I have been thinking today about something that perennially comes up in certain orange-tinted online communities: running your own mail server.
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Practical Transformer Winding (2010)
Instructions on how to design, calculate and build power transformers.
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Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
Useful old technologies: ASN.1
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Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
Programmers are passionate about their tools, and if there is one tool they are especially passionate about, it is their text editor. An editor war has…
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How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
When I was building the spatial “tool for thought”, Jade, one frequently requested feature was drawing arrows between blocks, so we could make mind maps, flowcharts, etc. Here’s how I made it.
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Testing the strength of different wood species
After I Built my wood strength tester , two fellow YouTubers offered to send me some samples of different wood species. These ones are from Peter Collin , already cut to size.
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Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app…
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Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
Pass ( main site , Arch wiki ) is a command-line Unix password manager that utilizes GPG for all underlying encryption. However, beyond passwords, we can utilize it in a number of clever ways.
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Mess with DNS
New tool: Mess with DNS!
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Sublime Clojure
New Sublime Text plugin for working with Clojure
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Modus Themes
The Modus themes for Emacs meet the highest accessibility standard for colour contrast. This is their official manual.
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How I spend less time on YouTube
Maybe I'm paranoid. But, I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless content. In this blog post, I'll describe a simple trick that…
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Miniature 3456 LED Cube
For some reason, I’m intrigued by LEDs. Indeed, they can be found in pretty much all of my projects. I was recently inspired by one of Greg Davill’s projects, a miniature LED cube boasting a total of 3456 LEDs . After pondering about it for a while, I decided I’d attempt building one myself. This post describes the…
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
Tools and techniques used to test coreutils
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Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Kubernetes at Home with K3s
It’s been a while on the blog! I promise there will be more regular updates from now on, but maybe not always about tech… But why I know what you’re thinking - Kubernetes? On a home server? Who’d be that crazy? Well, a while ago I’d agree but a few things have changed my mind recently…
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