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Making an emperor bed
In 2012 or 2013, I stumbled across the Wikipedia page for Bed Sizes [ 1 ] and discovered that the UK had two sizes larger than America's King or California King: The Emperor (7'x7') and The Caesar (8'x7')
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,505 posts.
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Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
Learn the image optimisation strategies I employed to shrink the page weight on my homepage from 1.1 MB to just under 450 KB
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Keeping a plaintext “did” file
Time flies by when you’re learning how to code. Its super important to take a second every once in a while to simple write down what you did during the past mental sprint. Writing down what you learned solidifies the knowledge.
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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent...
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Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Chrome developer tools to master
With the advent of modern frameworks, ES6 and the increasing risk of security everyday, knowing how to use Chrome developer tools can give you a major boost in productivity and help in easy diagnosis of a website’s performance. This article aims to give an overview of different features available in Chrome developer…
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My favorite apps on F-Droid
I often recommend F-Droid to my Android-using friends. F-Droid is an alternative app store which contains only Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It's great because the apps are almost all not evil. Did you know that a flashlight app doesn't need access to your contacts, location, and pictures? Did you know that…
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Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode
OfferZen flips the normal recruitment model around, so instead of applying for jobs, companies send you interview requests with upfront salary.
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Something about functions in Bash (2017)
Here's something you didn't know about bash functions. Usually when you write a function you do this: function name () { ... } Right? I know you do, because that's how everyone writes functions. Well, here's the thing. In bash { ... } doesn't mean "function's body" or "function's scope" as in JavaScript or C. It's...
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Designing an email-only Slack interface
On the design of Stop Slacking , which lets you interact via email with the poor souls trapped in the endless, no-agenda meeting that is Slack.
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A system to help you remember more of what you read
Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had…
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Cool Retro Terminal
I often don't blog about this kind of stuff. Yesterday I friend of mine showed me this awesome project called cool-retro-term . When yo...
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Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool
From shopping to social media, the average online user will have hundreds of accounts requiring passwords. At the same time, the number of user data breaches occurring each year continues ...
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Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo
I recently migrated my personal website (the source code is on GitHub ) from Jekyll to Hugo . It was mostly painless, and now I’m eager to write more often and put more content on my website.
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
The automatic audio post production webservice.
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How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us.
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Keybase Exploding Messages
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Learn just a little Awk (2010)
An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.
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GitLab Web IDE
Here's how we went from a proof of concept to a new feature that makes it even easier for everyone to edit inside of GitLab.
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Architect – A Serverless Framework
I’m a believer in the power of frameworks, and for good reason — the bulk of my career as a programmer and technology leader involved the use of Rails. Durin...
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Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
A couple of weeks ago, I started to work with Emacs, and I grow fonder of it every day. During a very short time period, it has become my go-to editor for nearly everything I do on my computer, including (but not limited to) planning my Todos (in org-mode, to be precise), setting up my agenda (org-mode again), taking…
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Observations running 2M headless sessions
Excited to share: 2 million sessions served! Here are best practices for running headless browsers (like Puppeteer) in production