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Mental models
Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.
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How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies
How Fathom Analytics build a totally GDPR compliant website analytics without cookies.
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History and Effective Use of Vim
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can abandon pre-packaged vimrc files and use plugins more thoughtfully.
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BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability (book)
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Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
In order to hide your IP address and to try and limit throttling when web scraping, it might be a good idea to use a proxy such as Tor. This post describes how to use Python based web scraping tools and Tor to hide yourself when scraping websites for data. However, it can also be used more broadly when using Python to…
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I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
Reify: Sell More Software
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Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
This type of highlighting is ideal for assembly. With it, the things that shouldn't seem similar usually don't.
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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
This is now a thing! Here is the follow-up post, containing the details. Join the Kickstarter here! Even better news, this is now not just a thing, but an actual physical product! Please check out LidLayer.com Preface I’ve always liked the idea of putting stickers on my MacBook Pro, but have always avoided it for two…
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Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions
I spent last weekend making a GUI for rsync (and this past week tidying it up a bit) and I learned a lot about rsync, GUIs, design, power, control, and decisions around verbosity and freedom of choice versus simplicity and guidance/support, packaging, maintenance and support.
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How to write idempotent Bash scripts
This blog post shows tips and tricks to write resilient and idempotent bash scripts.
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Personal Kanban 101
Despite our best intentions, life has a way of becoming complicated. People, tasks, responsibilities, deadlines, and even recreation all compete for our attention. The human brain however, simply does not respond well to the stress of juggling multiple priorities. That’s where Personal Kanban can help.
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How much free time do you have?
I made a quick tool (for no real reason) to calculate and visualize 'free time' based on the selection of criteria shown below. Replace my responses with yours, and hit 'run' to see how much free time you have.
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Hacking Digital Calipers
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs
Mailchimp was getting too expensive, so I moved this blog's newsletter to Sendy.
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How Google Pagespeed works
How Google PageSpeed Insights works: where its field data comes from, how Lighthouse calculates the Performance score, and how to improve your page speed.
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Awk by Example
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform
Machine learning based marketing automation to improve cost and volume efficiency in an ever-changing marketplace.
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Reinventing Firefox for Android
With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor…
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JSON Resume – 5th Birthday and New Features
5th birthday and new features, from the JSON Resume blog.
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The Simple Genius of Checklists
The year is 1935, and the U.S. Army Air Corps is holding a competition for airplane manufacturers vying to secure a contract to build the military’s...
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Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
Python application distribution is generally considered an unsolved problem. At their PyCon 2019 keynote talk, Russel Keith-Magee identified code distribution as a potential black swan - an existential threat for longevity - for Python. In their words, Python hasn't ever had a consistent story for how I give my code…