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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
Mousetrap is a simple keyboard shortcut/event library written in Javascript.
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Sublime Text 2.0 Released
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that Sublime Text 2 has graduated out of beta, with 2.0 now available for your text editing pleasure.
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It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
I’m happy to announce the official release of the Light Table Playground ! You can find instructions for getting it here: http://app.kodowa.com/playground
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Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere
A sad example of how easy it is to dismiss certain design principles because it does not seem relevant at the time.
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A standing desk for $22
I’ve been interested in standing desks for a while. I keep reading things like: he who sits the most dies the soonest. All the options online are expensive. Until now. Ryan Witt and I combined our brains to see if we could come up with a better solution: Introducing
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Actually using Ed
The classic ed editor is a really good example of a sparse, minimal, standard Unix tool that does one thing, and does it well. Because there are so many good screen-oriented editors for Unix, there’s seldom very much call for using ed , unless you’re working on very old or very limited hardware that won’t run anything…
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Using unix as your IDE
This series has been independently translated into Chinese , Russian , Turkish , and Korean , and formatted as an ebook .
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How to overcome resistance to work
Even if your approach to work is excellent and you are self-disciplined, from time to time, a nasty task will appear. Task that you will feel extreme resistance to, which will cause you to procrastinate. However, with the right approach, you can get cr...
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Beautiful Tools
We do this software development thing. I don’t have to tell you at times, it’s a very trying process. You shouldn’t have to deal with tools that get in your way or make your experience any less pleasurable. Okay. So you got the fancy chair. How about
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Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
If you’ve moved to Vim from an editor like Notepad++ or TextMate, you’ll be used to working with the idea of tabs in a text editor in a certain way. Specifically, a tab represents an open file; while the tab’s there, you’ve got an open file, as soon as you close it, it goes away. This one-to-one correspondence is…
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The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote
2008 blast from the past: me, Mike Wallin, and Derek Sivers, the subject of this post. (Photo: A3maven) [Total read time: 3-5 minutes.] Derek Sivers is one of my favorite people. He is a programmer who lost his stage fright by doing more than 1,000 gigs as a circus ring leader (!!!). He’s also a […]
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Back That Gmail Up
I’m not leery of Google shuttering its Gmail service, but I can imagine a scenario where they cut off my access to Gmail and I have no way to plead my case to the search behemoth. So I went looking …
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Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks
How I secured a ThinkPad: a Windows honeypot with Prey for thieves, TRESOR against cold boot, a USB boot stick for evil maids, and a separate Firefox user.
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GCC Explorer
Introducing a new way to stare at the disassembly of your compiled C and C++
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Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler
Large-scale system modeling environment for instant visualization, simulation, analysis of systems with mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, biological and other components.
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Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
I used to be a lifehacking addict, and in some ways I still am. I have a perverse love of systems and efficiency: analyzing, configuring, optmizing, categorizing, defining, and parameter-setting. (…
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Rails Console Tips
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with…
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