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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,505 posts.
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Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
I estimated that I had used my mac for approximately 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, for 7 years straight, for a total for whopping 16800 hours. I have written the first versions of most of the software components of my startup using this computer. And all this time, this machine worked without a…
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Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You
Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets…
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GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
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Hash: A free, online platform for modeling
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them.
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How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
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Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
I’m a huge fan of databases, so much so that I’ve written a book on so-called “NoSQL” databases, I spent some of my most fruitful years in tech working on the highly influential distributed database Riak , and I even built a database called Purple last year just for fun.
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Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
tl;dr: We look at how Zsh and Fish is able to indicate a missing terminating linefeed in program output when the Unix programming model precludes examining the output itself.
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Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux
This post is the first public announcement of my new package manager and deployment tool for linux - hermes .
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Spark joy by running fewer tests
Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain a program’s stability, but as the code base grows, a high number of…
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Gimp 2.10.20
“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”
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Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
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Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
Have you ever had to draw an architecture diagram and found the repetitive clicking and dragging tedious? Did you have to do modifications to that diagram and found it complicated? Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software that allows us to decribe a diagram using code, and have it automatically drawn…
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The Poetics of CLI Command Names
Naming a CLI command requires deep and careful deliberation.
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Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes
Learn Zettelkasten note-taking: Create permanent, atomic notes linked together to prevent them from being forgotten. Uses plain text files and simple software like Zettlr.
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Bookmarklets I Use
Hi, my name is Philipp! This is my personal website, where I write stuff with inconsistent frequency.
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How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
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I made a font based on my handwriting
I wanted to make a font based on my handwriting using only free software. It turns out that FontForge can be scripted with Python. I know just a little about Python and even less about typography, but I managed to hack together something that worked for me. If you're reading this on my blog at…
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IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
At IBM Research, we’re inventing what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.
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How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines (2015)
ffmpeg is a wonderful library for creating video applications or even general purpose utilities. ffmpeg takes care of all the hard work of video processing by doing all the decoding, encoding, muxing and demuxing for you. This can make media applications much simpler to write. It's simple, written in C, fast, and can…
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Emacs as Email Client
Email with mu4e and offlineimap
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Julia as a CLI Calculator
I have been using the Julia REPL as my day-to-day calculator on the command line for more than a year now. I am surprised that I haven’t seen more posts talking about how powerful and extensible the language is for simple numerical calculations and scripting In fact, the Julia REPL is much more than a simple…