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Amazon Polly – Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
As I was getting ready to write this post, I thought back to my childhood (largely spent watching TV) and some of the popular computer and robot voices of the 1960’s and 1970’s. In just a few minutes, pleasant memories of HAL-9000, B9 (Lost in Space), the original Star Trek Computer, and Rosie (from The […]
Panic Status Board is being discontinued
Status Board was something we’d always wanted. Originally a very nice web page designed to brighten up our office and act as our virtual water-cooler for company stats — as seen in this famous blog post — it evolved into a feature-packed, beautiful iOS app. We made it very easy to make beautiful boards, it worked…
Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers
A million hot takes have been posted about how the late-2016 MacBook Pro with USB-C is the undeniable proof that Apple doesn’t care about…
IP Over QR Code
**UPDATE** Some have ask the throughput I am getting, its just about 100 Bytes per second, but hopefully I can improve it :) **UPDATE 2** Removing my custom seq/ack header and it still works and is…
Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
Update - May 2019 Windows 10 version 1903 has now been released and allows an important update to WSL that allows Windows applications and tools to access
Boards in Asana
Learn more about Boards in Asana -- a simple, visual way to track your team's work -- and how to use it.
Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
Discover recent changes in the Visual Studio documentation, including updated articles about getting started, the IDE, and deployment.
YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds
Well if there's something I wasn't expecting to find tonight, it was that apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to follow channels via RSS again , and unlike the last few years, this time it actually looks to be officially supported!
Visual Studio for Mac
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Homebrew 1.1.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.1.0. We’ve had a great response to Homebrew 1.0.0 and been iterating on our work there. That 1.1.0 follows 1.0.9 is a happy coincidence due to breaking changes; in the future we may have e.g. a 1.1.10.
Turning off syntax highlighting
An experiment in turning off syntax highlighting and its effects on code quality and readability.
Org mode 9.0 released
Org-mode. Complex so you don't have to be. A versatile organisational system with immense capabilities.
Tor Browser User Manual
The community team is excited to announce the new Tor Browser User Manual! The manual is...
Announcing RStudio v1.0
Today we’re very pleased to announce the availability of RStudio Version 1.0! Version 1.0 is our 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011 (see the full release history below), and our biggest ever! Highlights include:
DTrace for Linux 2016
DTrace for Linux 2016: announcing a major milestone: the final kernel capabilities have merged in Linux 4.9-rc1 to enhanced BPF (eBPF) to provide an advanced programmable dynamic tracer similar to DTrace.