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No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration…
Kate just turned 20 today! As announced before, Kate turned twenty today. When did it start? Here again my initial request to the KWrite maintainer about my work on a 'MDI KWrite' later called Kate (sorry, German & spelling mistakes): From: Cullmann Christoph <crossfire@babylon2k.de> To: digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de…
A minimal template for a safe Bash script. It includes error handling, parameter parsing, and cleanup.
Notes on building, technology, health, and living deliberately by Ayush Kumar.
TL;DR To make a default Vim installation more useful, type the following 5 lines into its .vimrc file:
Lynx is a text based browser. You think the people who browse without JavaScript are weird? Lynx doesn't even do images or CSS! It downloads HTML and renders it at blazing fast speed. If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web - Lynx will show you the meaning of haste. I use Lynx most…
It all started out innocently enough. You experimented with it once or twice in your first year of college, but Nano and Pico were easier—closer to what you had already been using during high school on the Windows machines and Macs. But as time went on and you got more experience under your belt in the college-level…
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
A couple of weeks ago, I started getting texts and emails from friends with an attachment to a blog post. A person named Paul had engineered and built himself a lay-down desk, wrote about his experience, and posted it on HN. Creating a lie-down desk is a big project in itself. To make even a static lie-down workstation
Download faa-wildlife-strikes.csv , a dataset of all aircraft-wildlife collisions reported to the Federal Aviation Administration between 2010 and mid-2016.
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
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Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,
Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]
On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3 , a new version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip .
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
Rakhim's homepage. I build open source projects and write about technology, programming, and life.
Ask anyone who's really into cooking and they'll tell you how important it is to have a kitchen that's arranged just right. To someone who rarely cooks, a kitchen is probably just a place to store a few pots and a toaster, and the placement of such stuff doesn't matter much: canned soup and microwave dinners are…
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed it. Not retaining enough is a valid problem but we’ll…
My name is Erik, and I am a Dutch software developer. I also like to write fiction. One could say I spend a lot of time trying to capture the world in plain text. Source code for the small part of it that can be expressed in logical terms, stories for everything else.
