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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory
A bug caused 30 minutes of work on an email to disappear. However, I was able to recover it by poking around in the process memory using gdb/gcore. Here’s how.
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Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
Awk is a tiny programming language and a command line tool. It's particularly appropriate for log parsing on servers, mostly because Awk will operate on files, usually structured in lines of human-readable text.
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Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
A prototype Raspberry Pi dashboard to save me talking to my smart assistant.
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Ennui: How to Overcome Chronic Boredom
Ennui (pronounced on-wee ) is chronic boredom that involves weariness, apathy, dissatisfaction, and lack of fulfillment. Some people experience a general sense of ennui in life, whereas others experience it in a specific domain, like their hobbies or work. For example, someone might experience ennui when it comes to a…
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Tmux for Mere Mortals
Tmux is great. Tmux defaults are not. How to make use of a brilliant tool without breaking your fingers?
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I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
I spent a lot of money on Google ads last year across Search, Display, Youtube, Discovery, and Gmail. Here's what I learned.
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Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
An introduction to shell productivity features: autocompletion, keyboard shortcuts, history navigation and shell expansions.
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Two Months with Powershell on a Unix
Software development blog of Joe Wright
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My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
JetBrains, the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, offer a range of powerful IDEs for all kinds of programming languages. I would like to share my favorite shortcuts for their IDEs.
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Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
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When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
Update your Bash prompt with the command start time.
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NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service
AKA Anycast-Pi-hole-as-a-Service... but even better!
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Rediscovering CardDAV
I can no longer sync iOS’ Contacts with my macOS Catalina’s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I’ve iCloud configured for Contact...
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Moving Away from Gmail
tl;dr: I like PurelyMail and I will slowly switch all my online accounts to use it. I've been using it for almost three months and I didn't have any issues (except with some Hotmail/Outlook addresses). I have a GMail account since 2006 (that's the date
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Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
Let structure emerge organically. When it’s imposed from the start, you prematurely constrain what may emerge and artificially compress the nuanced relationships between ideas.
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Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)
TL;DR: A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen. The code/build instructions are available on GitHub .
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Mosh
I remember when mosh first came out and thinking "that sounds like a great idea, maybe I'll set it up sometime" and then never getting around to it. Several times over the years I've thought similarly, but it never seemed worth it. A week ago a coworker asked if there were good tools for handling remote terminal use…
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Configs suck? Try a real programming language
Or yet another rant about YAML
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My Favourite Diff
I want to tell the story of one of my favourite diffs I’ve ever committed. It’s probably not the “best” by any objective measure, but it’s a personal favourite and makes for a good story to boot.