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CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
CSS Shapes allow web designers to wrap content around custom paths, but authoring them is not trivial.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,505 posts.
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Email will last forever
The Front Page, Front’s official blog, is the best source for customer service, support, experience, and sales tips. Read on.
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The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer
3d printing projects, Ultimaker and other DIY 3d stuff
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Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro
Dropbox helps you make every second count when you're your own boss. Explore how Dropbox makes it easier to manage your business.
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Useful Unix commands for exploring data
While dealing with big genetic data sets I often got stuck with limitation of programming languages in terms of reading big files. Also so...
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Sublime Text 3 Updated
Dev build 3063 is out now, with a few small improvements. There is now an equivalent to the OSX command line tool on windows: subl.exe. While the basic functionality was previously available via just passing sublime_text.exe command line arguments, because it was a windowed application rather than a console one, it…
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The fundamental problem of programming language package management
Why are there so many goddamn package managers? They sprawl across both operating systems (apt, yum, pacman, Homebrew) as well as for programming languages (Bundler, Cabal, Composer, CPAN, CRAN, CTAN, EasyInstall, Go Get, Maven, npm, NuGet, OPAM, PEAR, pip, RubyGems, etc etc etc). “It is a truth universally…
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Introducing Rec Room
It's no secret that the best frameworks and tools are extracted, not created out of thin air. Since launching Firefox OS, Mozilla has been approached by countless app developers and ...
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Spaced Repetition is Awesome
I've recently become motivated to learn Portuguese. Mulheres bonitas sao muito motivado. It's not the first time this has happened to me - in the past I've attempted to learn Spanish, Farsi and Konkani. But it is the first time I've made significant progress and it's the first time that I …
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Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
Update: Our recently updated Surveillance Self-Defense guide includes more background and detail on security threats facing mobile phone users. Check out the guide, and pay particular attention to The Problem With Mobile Phones. With major protests in the news again, we decided it's time to update...
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How to Beat Procrastination
Part 2. Where does a procrastinator go wrong and how can you actually improve your procrastination habits?
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MathBox 2
Notes will appear here. Please view in Chrome or Firefox. Chrome is glitchy, Firefox is stuttery. Work in progress. :/
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What's the matter with PGP?
Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google’s end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal. With providers like Google and Yahoo onboa…
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Screenshot URL tracking and niki-bot
UPDATE: Awesome Screenshot 3.7.12 now offers an 'opt-out' setting to address this (but it's on by default) - read my new article here.
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How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (2011)
One of the features that I’m most pleased with on Richmond Sunlight is the integration of video. It’s one thing to put up chunks of video for people to paw through, but it’s another to automatically index it so that people can be directed to just the parts of the video that interest them. That […]
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Introducing Heroku Button
At Heroku, we want to make the process of deploying, running and updating code simple and easy. To that end, we’re launching the Heroku Button: a simple HT
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A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox ...
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Experimenting with Mozjpeg 2.0
One of the services that CloudFlare provides to paying customers is called Polish. Polish automatically recompresses images cached by CloudFlare to ensure that they are as small as possible and can be delivered to web browsers as quickly as possible.
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Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (2012)
Unix is an alliance of loosely structured text files bound together and governed by scripts. Unix is the United Confederation of Strings:
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