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Ultimate Linux on the Desktop
Creating the ultimate Linux on the desktop experience for everything in containers.
GIMP – 2016 in review
When we released GIMP 2.9.2 in late 2015 and stepped over into 2016, we already knew that we’d be doing mostly polishing. This turned out to be true to a larger extent, but quite a few new features slipped in. So, what are the big changes for GIMP in 2016?
Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
First launched in 2013, Telegram Desktop graduates to version 1.0 today. We've added a fabulous new design and support for custom themes.
Why I switched from OS X to Linux
I'm not writing macOS because I switched before the new name came along. But let me start at the beginning.
Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
Coati is a developer tool for fast and efficient source code navigation and exploration. This is the story of how an internship at Google…
Deep Work: A welcome kick in the butt
Based on this tweet by Enrico Bertini: Little project I developed during the break looking back at 2016: "Quantifying and Visualizing “Deep Work”" https://t.co/s3d9Zn685Q— Enrico Bertini (@FILWD) January 3, 2017 … after having been successfully primed by this one some weeks ago (because locals!): I also recommend…
LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)
This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X
This is the first in a series on finding a replacement for Mac OS X.
Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro
Alexei's pile o'stuff, featuring writing on software development, travel, photography, and more.
Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
After several years with my Dell Latitude E6400 I was searching for a new, more powerful Linux machine for my coding and performance tweaking tasks. And although the Dell XPS line sounded interesti…
Darktable 2.2.0 released
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the sha256 checksum is…
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
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8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year
Update (December 2016): Version 2 of this guide is now available! Announcement post here. Links in this post are updated to send you to the latest and greatest version. Click here to download 8,760 Hours v2 The end of a year […]
A Git catastrophe cleaned up
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
Firebug, the original browser developer tool, has been discontinued as a separate Firefox add-on, and will go forward as Firebug.next atop Firefox DevTools. The spirit of Firebug lives on in ...
Wycheproof – Tests that check cryptographic software for known weaknesses
Posted by Daniel Bleichenbacher, Security Engineer and Thai Duong, Security Engineer We’re excited to announce the release of Project Wyche...
Piwik 3.0.0
Piwik 3.0.0 brings many improvements to Piwik, including a full redesign of the application, security improvements and several major improvements in the core analytics platform and core plugins APIs.
Version SAT
The package version selection problem is to find a set of dependencies that can be used to build a top-level package P that is complete (all dependencies satisfied) and compatible (no two incompatible packages are selected). There may be no such set, because of the diamond dependency problem: perhaps A needs B and C…