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Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management
[2025-03-31 Mon] : Clarification: The recording is not available for this conversation, but both Adam and John are okay with this post, so here are the notes. =)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 448 posts.
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Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"
Viewing my binary file with ImHex. The pattern language pane, on the right,...
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Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
macOS comes with a lot of built-in utilities. Here's a list of some that I find interesting.
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Using Two ReMarkables
I'm a PhD student currently, which means that I spend most of my work life reading, or thinking about what I should read next. The timelines for my reading schedules range from what I need to read before a class or meeting next week, to what I ought to read for a paper or research trajectory that won't have any…
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Stop saying "just" (2019)
Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?
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Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python
An open source utility for packaging Python applications and all their dependencies into a portable, deterministic format based on Python's `sitecustomize.py`.
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Org Mode Syntax Cheat Sheet (2017)
I’m a keen user of Emacs and Org mode for a variety of tasks, including note taking, generating documents for exporting to LaTeX, Word, or html. creating blog posts (notably for this blog, us…
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Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late
This aesthetic screenshot of an old windows app has been in my inspiration space for ~5 years. Until recently, I assumed that it was just a nostalgia bait concept.
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Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
TLDR: If your job is to write code all day or stare at Excel spreadsheets, buy an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup. You can even use the same TV for 4K 120 Hz gaming or watching movies as a bonus!
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How I write code using Cursor
A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.
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We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.
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Debugging my wife's alarm clock
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went out" sort of way.
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Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.
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Claude Computer Use – Is Vision the Ultimate API?
A deep dive into Anthropic’s new Computer Use API.
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Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result …
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GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoying
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
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Never Missing the Train Again
How I built a transit dashboard with Rust, Skia, and an old Kindle
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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
Who knew figuring out the lab's occupancy would be so much work?!
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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript…
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What docs-as-code means
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, …
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Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
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Unit tests as documentation
Unit tests are always in sync with the code, making them a powerful tool for up-to-date documentation.
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
NotebookLM is piloting a way for teams to collaborate, and introducing a new way to customize Audio Overviews.
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Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of …
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I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server
Discover how I transformed an old server into a powerful AI engine, self-hosting Llama 3.2 with GPU acceleration using Coolify. A step-by-step guide.
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Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser
Sound Lab is an analogue synthesiser, consisting of six modules that can be combined in a variety of ways. It uses a single printed circuit board that doubles as the front panel and wiring, with surface-mount components and PCB-mounted controls to make the construction as easy as possible:
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…