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I Nearly Lost All of My Data
My home server completely shit the best recently and I thought I'd lost all my data.
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HandBrake 1.2.0 Released
News and Project Updates!
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How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects
Undeniably, Raspberry Pi has revolutionised the way we use computing technology in our lives. In addition to being energy efficient, a Raspberry Pi is a single board computer that does not take up …
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How to teach Git
An alternative way to teach Git
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99% code coverage (2017)
Do we have a good safety net to change this legacy code?
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Tracking Blood Sugar
Fasting glucose and A1C tests done over the past few years show me at low risk for diabetes. But these tests don’t necessarily capture how much blood sugar “spikes” after meals–something that may be a better predictor of disease risk . Such blood sugar spikes can be minimized with a suitable diet, but what that diet…
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Metasploit 5.0 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Metasploit 5.0, the culmination of work by the Metasploit team over the past year. Learn more.
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So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
Did you do something with your hair? It looks nice.
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Using Web Technologies to Print a Book
From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS.
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Homebrew 1.9.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.9.0. The most significant changes since 1.8.0 are Linux support, (optional) automatic brew cleanup and providing bottles (binary packages) to more Homebrew users.
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Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment
In this article we will put some light on a lot of tools used in the world of Unix desktop environment customization, particularly regarding wmctrl, wmutils, xev, xtruss, xwininfo, xprop, xdotools, xdo, sxhkd, xbindkeys, speckeysd, xchainkeys, alttab, triggerhappy, gTile, gidmgr, keynav, and more. If those don't make…
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info
Task Manager can be lacking as a memory tracker. Let's cover alternatives to replace it. First, let’s discuss how memory allocations work in Windows.
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LiteCLI – A user-friendly command-line client for SQLite database
LiteCLI is written in python using the wonderful prompt-toolkit library. It is cross-platform compatible and it is tested on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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Migrating from Google Analytics
In this post we'll explore what happened when I migrated away from Google Analytics (GA) to a self-hosted solution. The tool that I migrated to is an open-source platform called Countly . It offers a subset of features from what GA offers.
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GIMP and GEGL in 2018
In this post, we are looking back at 2018 and then forward to outline future work on GIMP, GEGL, and babl.
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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Get ready for medium data
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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
A Better Courier, Free to Use
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PANE: Programming with visible data
PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.