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Just over a year ago now, I finally opened the bakery I’d been dreaming of for years. It’s been a big change in my life, from spending all my time sat in front of a computer, to spending most of it making actual stuff. And stuff that makes people happy, at that. It’s been a huge change, but I can’t think of a single…
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
February 19, 2019
Time tracking can be beneficial for software developers. Want to know how? Follow our best practices and see what mistakes to avoid.
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
I am starting to realize that the Unix command-line toolbox can fix absolutely any problem related to text wrangling. Let me tell you about a problem I had, and how I used some Unix command-line utilities to solve it.
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
I like to joke that SEO stands for 'somebody else's obligation' because it’s easy to point a finger when something goes wrong.
tl;dr: I'm now using Fathom for my personal website analytics, and it's easy to self-host and maintain, better for privacy, and can lead to better site performance. Since the mid-2000s, right after it became available, I started using Google Analytics for almost every website I built (whether it be mine or someone…
This blog series focuses on the collection of device data by various popular mobile apps. Data is often collected in the name of advertising, error monitoring, fraud detection, and social media integration.
In all the above scenarios you might want to use other Clojure and Java libraries (dependencies or 'deps'). These may be libraries you are writing locally, projects in git (e.g. on GitHub) or, commonly, libraries available in the Maven ecosystem and hosted by central repositories like Maven Central or Clojars.
The ultimate step- by- step van build guide for your conversion. From choosing the right van, planning the best layout, all the way to finishing touches.
Abstract. This tutorial provides a programmer ' s introduction to the Satisfiability Modulo Theories Solver Z3. It describes how to use Z3 through scripts, provided in the Python scripting language, and it describes several of the algorithms underlying the decision procedures within Z3. It aims to broadly cover almost…
Just hearing the word CMake is typically enough to make a shiver run down my spine. I’ve been deep in the muck of its behavior and tooling the last few weeks as I finish up a CMake library titled IXM. While the various minutiae of how IXM works, why I wrote it, and all the nice little usage details are definitely for…
My own home directory contains 25 ordinary files and 144 hidden files. The dotfiles contain data that doesn't belong to me: it belongs to the programmers whose programs decided to hijack the primary location designed as a storage for my personal files. I can't place those dotfiles anywhere else and they will appear…
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.0.0. The most significant changes since 1.9.0 are official support for Linux and Windows 10 (with Windows Subsystem for Linux), brew cleanup running automatically, no more options in Homebrew/homebrew-core, and removal of support for OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and older.
A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.
This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.
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Am I the only one who is skeptical clicking on ads I see online? Yes, I know it is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs , but I really don't care ...
Why unix pipes are awesome.
First published Jan. 17, 2019; updated Nov. 15, 2019 Let me briefly tell my Linux story. If you're thinking about moving to Linux, and wondering how you'd do so, it might give you some pointers and inspiration. The back story My first introduction to the command line was in the 80s when I f
