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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac
I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept asking myself ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Claude Code Is My Computer
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
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How to Store Data on Paper?
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage . Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found.
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Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)
Easily create Markdown tables by copying data from Excel or Google Sheets and pasting it into the text box below using Ctrl+V. Alternatively, as a new feature, paste a Markdown table to convert it to Excel/Google Sheets format. The result is automatically copied to your clipboard and ready to use. Error: This tool…
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Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset
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LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux
If you're underwhelmed with AI coding agents or simply want to get more out of them, give parallelization a try. After seeing the results firsthand over the past month, I'm ready to call myself an evangelist. The throughput improvements are incredible, and I don't feel like I'm losing control of the codebase.
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As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
Writing code is a part of being a software developer but often more important question is to figure what code to write and how and that I like to do away from computer with my notebook.
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Why Cline doesn't index your codebase
Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?" It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge bases. But for Cline, we've taken a…
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Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart
We’re excited to announce the release of Stalwart v0.12, a significant milestone that evolves Stalwart from a powerful mail server into a complete, integrated communication and collaboration...
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TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.
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GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …
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Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
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The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
So! Suppose you’re an intrepid engineer in a nascent Developer Productivity team. Your engineering organization has decided that it wants to move towards a monorepo . You’ve heard the stories told of Google, Meta, Uber - each a large technology company with developer productivity organizations consisting of hundreds…
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How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox
Should I host my blog on here?
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DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum
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Postgres IDE in VS Code
We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...
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You can choose tools that make you happy
Stop falsifying your motivations.
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An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
Explore the upgraded Google AI Studio with Gemini 2.5 Pro, agentic tools, and enhanced multimodal capabilities for developers to build sophisticated AI apps.
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By default, Signal doesn't recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...
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The WinRAR approach
The WinRAR Approach: a small change in how I distribute content to keep the content free, sustainable, & ad-free.
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Edit is now open source
Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!
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Side projects I've built since 2009
Side projects I have shipped, sold, or shut down, from modern.css to older WordPress experiments.
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Hyper Typing
In this article, I talk about an inherent trade-off in TypeScript's type system: stricter types are safer, but often more complex. I describe a phenomenon I call "hyper-typing", where libraries - in pursuit of perfect type safety - end up with overly complex types that are hard-to-understand, produce cryptic errors…
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$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)
In the spirit of my thermostat and dishwasher controller , I managed to cobble together a decent blinds opener in a short weekend almost entirely from spare parts on hand. This design is very much what I could do quickly with what I had, so probably not worth copying, but perhaps it can be an inspiration.
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Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.
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Spaced repetition memory system (2024)
A spaced-repetition memory system combines the Testing effect and the Spacing effect to enable efficient memorization of many thousands of facts ( Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient ). Some people also use them for a broader set of tasks (see below). Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a…
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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type …