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The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.
I finally managed to switch to JetBrains Rider. Unfortunately, I ran into some problems. Here is how to fix UnicodeDecodeError.
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
QR codes are now critical infrastructure here in NSW, Australia. Let's learn how to make them better.
I really wanted to get a personal blog up quickly, but the most popular static site generators either didn't fit my needs or did way too much.
Update 12/10/21, 10:15 UTC: I never imagined this post would reach the front page on Hacker News and gather so much support. Thank you all…
The iPhone 13 Pro features a new camera capable of focusing closer than ever before—less than an inch away. This opens a whole new dimension for iPhone photographers, but it’s not without surprises. Let’s take a tour of what this lens unlocks, some clever details you might
In April, I wrote operatornotify.py , a module which allows my programs to notify me of important information or errors. I was immediately very proud of it. It felt awesome to get so much impact out of a sub-100 line module as I went around hooking it up to my existing programs and getting the tracebacks from my…
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Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Most people who know me well know I really like apples. I'm a big fan for a lot of reasons- taste, texture, the fact that they're a symbol of my favorite season, the sheer quantity of accessible food that can grow on a single tree, et cetera. Last year, I decided I wanted to make some homemade apple cider. I bought a…
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Relying on the built-in motherboard headers on server grade motherboards to reliably control fans with Linux has been a crapshoot since forever. I'm pleased to report that last summer the Corsair Commander Pro received native Linux kernel driver support in the 5.9 release.
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
Filing taxes in America sucks. Your options are to do it by hand, pay someone like Intuit, or if you are below a certain income threshold get some tax software for free. The kicker is that free tax software is from Intuit who will try very hard to make sure that you either don’t find it in the first place, or try to…
Briefly, Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a computer operating system developed by the original UNIX design team. After decades of work on Research UNIX in the late 80's, the team decided to write a new operating system from scratch, Plan 9 was finally released in 1992, and a few years later they released yet another…
Learn the basics of Awk, a powerful text processing tool, in this informative article. Discover how to use Awk to manipulate and analyze data, calc...
Footnotes let you reference relevant information without disrupting the flow of what you're trying to say: Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it. [^1]: My reference.…
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
Measuring the energy consumption of software is far from being a trivial task. This article provides essential details about energy consumption tools, their...
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
If you ever were in the situation of looking for a tool to manage the knowledge of your organization, chances are you ended up choosing between Notion and Confluence. A handful of other tools also exist in this field, large players like Microsoft Sharepoint or Google Drive, niche tools like …
I do the bulk of my code reviews from the command line, especially when reviewing larger changes. I've built up a number of tools and config settings that help me dig into the nuances of the code I'm reviewing, so that I can understand it better than if I were just browsing online.
This is a big release, with a lot of performance improvements across the whole app. Some of this is due to the migration from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 5, which may not sound like much but is act…
