1981
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
1982
My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
My stack for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News.
1983
Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
1984
Running a Law Firm on Linux
We are now three or so months into the world of running decoded.legal, and doing legal work, exclusively* on Linux 1 , so I thought I’d write about it.
1985
How I Use Notion
This post is a fairly comprehensive discussion of how I use Notion (a free personal knowledge management app) to organise various aspects of my life: project management, reading, academics, plans/goals, investing, and more. The post is not designed to be read linearly – pick and choose the bits that are relevant to…
1986
1987
Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
I spend way too much time on reddit, hacker news, twitter, feedly, coinbase, robinhood, email, etc. I’d like to spend time on things that are more meaningful - chess, digital painting, side projects, reading, video games, exercising, meditating, etc. This has been a problem for years. This post is only slightly…
1988
Write thin to write fast
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1989
My Emacs Lisp book is finished
I am very proud to say that after about 10 months of work I finished writing my Emacs Lisp book . If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s called “Hacking your way around in Emacs” and it is an intermediate-level textbook on Emacs Lisp, showing a lot of useful things on about 100 pages.
1990
Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
Hot take after a year or so of trying to build a developer community. If you can pick only one, use forum software rather than synchronous chat software for community building around a developer platform.
1991
I just want to run this one Python script
So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems… Ever had a script that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic
1992
Writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch
In the aftermath of my previous blog post about using Nextjournal's clojure-mode for better highlighting, I tried optimizing the JS output and got a look at the internals of CodeMirror 6 . I realized that writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch wasn't that hard if you had the right tools at hand:
1993
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on…
1994
Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
Texts on this and that.
1995
1996
Peeking through logs
I was reading an interesting and educational blog post , about the writer's home infrastructure status. I was curious about it, because it mentioned syslog-ng, a project I used to be heavily involved with, and a project that's still dear to my heart, even though I'm neither involved, nor am I using it any longer. It…
1997
Scrape like the big boys
What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
1998
Why is Excalidraw so good?
The product factors that make it work so so well
1999
Never update anything
Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum , therefore you shouldn't take it as gospel. However, i do believe that this point of view is extreme enough that it usually gets shut down immediately, yet doesn't have any frank discussion about it, which makes it the perfect subject for me to write about!…
2000
High-fidelity remote communication
Remote is hard but it can work if you focus on what matters.
2001
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated. Very often, the biggest toil center for a team at a growing …
2002
Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback.
2003
Bash functions are better than I thought
I've been using Bash functions quite liberally over the past couple years, but last week I discovered that they can be much better than I thought. In this post, I'll explain how I thought they worked, why I was wrong, and how that makes them better.Function syntax
2004
Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp
[This is about Symex.el , the Emacs extension for structural editing with Lisp. If you are unfamiliar with Symex, you could read the post introducing it , or TL;DR: just know that “symex” is short for Lisp symbolic expression / S-expression, and this extension provides a full-featured modal interface / Evil state for…
2005
Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad
The Macbook Pro M1 is the software development laptop of choice yet I love my iPad considerably more. I'm all in with my thin client for hipsters. Here’s what I’ve learned over the months and how my baremetal homelab in the sky is setup.
2006
First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has just been released, it's now got three more cores just like the RPi 3, but what is it good for and should you get one?
2007
Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp
I maintain a VPS which I use to self-host a variety of services that I use: Joplin Server, Seafile , as well as for hosting websites that I develop. For the past few years, that VPS has been managed with Docker Compose, but recently I decided to build something a bit bigger. My goals with the project:
2008
Riding the Writing Wave
“Writing is its own reward.” – Henry Miller Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates new ones. Writing forces you to think. It’s nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is how clearly you can explain it in writing — clear writers are
2009
DIY Acoustic Camera
Make your own acoustic camera with miniDSP UMA-16 and Acoular
2010
My ideal Rust workflow
Writing Rust is pretty neat. But you know what’s even neater? Continuously testing Rust, releasing Rust, and eventually, shipping Rust to production. And for that, we want more than plug-in for a c...