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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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In praise of --dry-run
See how we improve software reliability with --dry-run modes. Learn best practices for tool development with insights from our expert, Patrick Stevens.
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A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
Before they started using CountThings from Photos, counting pearls took almost 100 hours a year.
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Teardown of a PC Power Supply
Have you ever wondered what's inside your computer's power supply? The task of a PC power supply is to convert the power from the wall (1...
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Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer
Why just print forms and airline tickets from an inkjet printer when you can print electronics! All you need to do is to replace the…
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Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…
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Text editing hates you too (2019)
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You , published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
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Sublime Text 4
Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!
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Squeezebox Keyboard
Staff Engineer, Back End
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Halide for iPad
We have a big announcement. Very big, in fact. Four times bigger than any previous announcement. We make Halide, a camera app that combines intuitive, polished design with the powerful features found in professional gear. Today we’re bringing Halide to a whole new form factor. Meet Halide for iPad!
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1Password for Linux
The wait is over. [1Password for Linux is officially here](https://support.1password.com/getting-started-linux/).
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Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboards…
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A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem
I presented this project at BangBangCon West 2020, but never got around to publish a blog post about it. A 10 minute talk is not enough to cover some technical aspects, and since I’m starting to forget them, it’s about time to write things down.
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An iOS app update that annoys me
Almost a year ago I started using a delightful little iOS app called Receipt Box. It did exactly what I wanted: I could tap in an expense and a category, and the app added a geo location to the exp...
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Making Your Own Tools
Listen in your podcast player by searching for Feeling of Computing , or via Apple Podcasts | Overcast | RSS
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Faster web fonts
Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT
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The Return of Fancy Tools
Dreamweaver as a low-code local-first native app
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Fly’s Prometheus Metrics
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)
How to organise and deploy dotfiles using GNU stow.
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Avoid Git LFS if possible
I have long held the opinion that you should avoid Git LFS if possible. Since people keeping asking me why, I figured I'd capture my thoughts in a blog post so I have something to refer them to.
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The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta
The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the
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We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
Code Editor — originally called “Diet Coda” then later “Coda for iOS” — was our powerful and full-featured iOS editor for developers. Introduced in 2012 , it was packed with innovation, like our “Super Loupe” designed to make iOS cursor placement more precise — even fun, and an “iPad Preview” that let you use your…
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How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner
Here's how I built an ultrasonic 3d scanner that works in the air, using off-the-shelf components.
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CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)
“Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs were - and still are - valuable, but they fail to scale to the demands of today's systems. So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. Now you see…
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Generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem.