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Create QR codes in Excel
Great to create and know the algorithm of QR code... very information! Thanx Bala
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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New search-by-image method on Bing.com
My brother is a pilot... ... and every so often he sends me a picture from somewhere in the world asking "So, smart guy, where is THIS ...
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Pause/unpause any X11 application
Many desktop oriented operating systems try to provide various usability improvements and features, like quite useful Expose or Dashboard in Mac OS X or useless Tiles concept in recent editions of …
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Taking back control of my digital life
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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The Tools I Use to Write Books
This article has been translated into Russian: Полезные инструменты для написания книг Thank you Vlad!
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CLI: Improved
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university wh…
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Bye bye BetterSlack
I wrote BetterSlack and Slack asked me to take it down. Find the story here.
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Building a Treasury Bond Ladder
A US treasury bond ladder is a great alternative to a high-yield savings account or CDs to invest short-term funds that you don't want to put at risk. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds (treasuries) are US government debt securities that may pay interest and return the principal at a specific time. While not FDIC…
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!
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Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014)
F.lux is a wonderful tool for helping eye strain. People who stare at computer screens all day (like myself) can experience quite a bit of eye strain due to the harsh lights screens emit. One solution is to wear yellow tinted gamer goggles. I chose the cheaper route, installing software to adjust the color temperature…
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
Create, share, and play with small Electron experiments.
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How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands
I was trying to run a simple join query on MariaDB (MySQL) and its performance was horrendous. Here’s how I cut down the query’s run time from over 380 hours to under 12 hours by executing part of it with two simple Unix commands.
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One Year Without AMP
A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted…
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A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
This map is now available in app form! WiFox is available on the App Store and Google Play. Finding an open wireless connection in many airports isn't always easy, or possible, without a password (or local phone number which is stupid). The difficulty of getting online is why I asked you for and created an…
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Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
We live in interesting times. The cloud offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft have led to a situation where world-class infrastructure is available to startups and solopreneurs for very cheap, and most of the times, they can even get started for free.