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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 356 posts.
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How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
Note: This post is from 2019— you can find my 2020 update here . I'm making over $400 / month with my music — mostly through Spotify. Of course that’s not enough to support a full-time artist but that’s not what I’m trying to be. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a label. I j
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PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019
fman is a dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Application-Level Logging Best Practices
Logs from the application level are the only way your application talks back to you. Having proper logs with commendable search capabilities is like having a torch in a dark room.
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My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
Harris Kenny, founder of OutboundSync. A little ode to a computing journey.
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How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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A Julia Interpreter and Debugger
The authors are pleased to announce the release of a fully-featured...
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Rules for Autocomplete
Autocompleting text with known values seems like an easy problem to solve, but so so so many UIs get it wrong. I see this frequently enough that, rather than complain about them individually, I though I’d just write down the set of rules they often break.
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Azure Data Studio: An Open-Source GUI Editor for Postgres
When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it. PostgreSQL has a command line tool, psql, and it’s pretty powerful, but some people much prefer a graphical editor.
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iPad Pro as Development Machine
I purchased an iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Pencil to use as my main computer. Can it replace my local workstation? Is it powerful enough for my day-to-day tasks? Let's find out.
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Roll Your Own Analytics
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
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Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web
Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Writing a Book with Unix
Developer and Author from Austin, TX.
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Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers
With this post we illustrate the potential applications of Cloudflare Workers in relation to search engine optimization, which is more commonly referred to as ‘SEO’ using our research and testing over the past year making Sloth.
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The hard part in becoming a command line wizard
I've long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent, they're both. Below I'll give a famous real example. Then…
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How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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We Need Chrome No More
Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is…
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Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio
Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing open source streaming solutions (Apache Kafka®), KSQL (the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka) a…
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Linux Desktop Setup
My software setup has been surprisingly constant over the last decade, after a few years of experimentation since I initially switched to Linux in 2006. It might be interesting to look back in another 10 years and see what changed. A quick overview of what’s running as I’m writing this post: