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Audacity 3.4
Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
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Automating Dead Code Cleanup
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…
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My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py
In the past week I went to add Python 3.12 support to my zstandard Python package. A few hours into the unexpected yak shave / rat hole, I decided to start chronicling my experience so that I may share it with the broader Python community. My hope is that by sharing my (unfortunately painful) end-user experience that…
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Finding services companies via their TXT records
How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
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Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io
Why we migrated OpenStatus' backend from Vercel to Fly.io using Hono and Bun — the challenges, performance gains, and lessons from the migration.
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Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
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Generate images in one second on your Mac using a latent consistency model
How to run a latent consistency model on your M1 or M2 Mac
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How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
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Keyboard Maestro 11
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
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Helix 23.10 Highlights
A post-modern modal text editor.
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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
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Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
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Thunderbird 115.4.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Unified versus Split Diff
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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Trying out TinaCMS
I'm trying out TinaCMS to make it faster and easier to post here!
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Yarn 4.0
Today is the day! After more than a year of work, our team is excited to finally put a fancy "stable" sticker on the first release from the 4.x release line! To celebrate, let's make together a tour of the major changes; should you look for a more itemized list, take a look at the changelog.
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Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off
Based on your feedback, we've improved the Automatic Data Conversion settings, and made them also available in Excel for Mac.
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Base64 Encoding, Explained
Base64 is an elegant way to convert binary data to text, making it easy to store and transport. This article covers the basics of Base64 encoding, including what it is, how it works and why it's important. It also shows how to encode and decode Base64 data in various programming languages.
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Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Just paying Figma because nothing else works
My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught “it’s a poor craftsman that blames their tools”, which apparen...
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Ruff v0.1.0
Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.
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Organizing multiple Git identities
Here's a quick tip on how to manage multiple Git identities (e.g. personal, work, client1, client2).
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Fcron Is the Best Cron
We look at the limitations of cron, examine systemd timers as an alternative, but in the end pick fcron as more user-friendly.
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How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision
Cook ground meat perfectly using these steps to make sure it is not over or under done. Directions are accessible for vision impaired cooks.