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Get It Done
Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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IKEA-Oriented Development
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)
Productivity is one of my pet topics, because it's always dogged me a bit, especially early in my career. I'd pull long days and nights and then realize I only actually worked (as in, typing in code, debugging stuff, and thinking about problems and their solutions) maybe 20% of the time. Upon talking to coworkers…
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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Control, escape, and meta tricks
Open a Unix or Linux terminal emulator. If you have Terminal.app on macOS, ensure that the "Use Option as Meta Key" option is enabled in its "Preferences" section. Now type foo bar baz followed by meta + b (i.e. alt + b or option + b on modern keyboards). In a typical desktop environment with a typical and modern…
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Moving fast with the core Vim motions
Where you learn the power of motions and how you can move blazingly fast and with extreme prevision using VSCodeVim
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Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
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Scripting with Elixir
I was a Python developer for some time and one great joy of Python is that you have an expressive language that you can use for your serious apps as well as for your hacky little one-off script or bespoke pieces of automation. By expressive I mean that typing very little can give you a lot of progress towards your…
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The Surprising Power of Documentation
Explore the power of proper documentation in this comprehensive guide. Understand how documentation serves as a secret weapon for CTOs, eliminating guesswork, speeding up onboarding, and enhancing productivity in startups. We delve into the importance of documentation in knowledge sharing, reducing the need for…
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Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
Guide showing how to discover and subscribe to popular communities (subreddits) when migrating from reddit to lemmy
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Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time
“But what is best is what we saved for last. The one sure-fire thing to make your best day ever the best day ever!" — SpongeBob, ‘Jellyfishing’
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Executable Examples in Go
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.
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Zig language server and cancellation
I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server. But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.
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Chat Notebooks
Wolfram expands Notebooks, integrating LLM functionality into the new chat cell and Chat Notebook. Stephen Wolfram explains how chat-enabled and chat-driven versions work.
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NixOS for the Impatient
Using NixOS for a more tractable computing setup.
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Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I've written a tool for creating a searchable archive of all your Reddit data.
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List one task, do it, cross it out
I have the reputation, at least among some friends and family, of being 'good in a crisis' – such as (to give a somewhat minor example) the day last year, deep in lockdown, when a shard of flying flowerpot ended up halfway through my partner's hand, sending her to hospital and upending our finely calibrated work and…
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I wrote my own smart home software
I’ve wanted to automate my home for a long time… having a background in industrial automation and software development, it felt like I was in a great position to be an early adopter.
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Still Love Telnet
How to use the telnet command on the bash command line to debug network problems.
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How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore our family’s impending 5,000 mile road trip around the USA
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Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
Insurance for your mind.
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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Using computers more freely and safely
The most important step is the first one. Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times. We built lots of different houses and learned from each other's failures. Gravitating away from monopolies is a way everyone can help improve software, regardless of our abilities or needs.
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Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
Cloud Workstations, now GA, enables faster developer onboarding and increased productivity with an enhanced security posture.
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How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
Emacs 29 introduces tree-sitter support, a powerful parsing library that enhances its understanding of source code. With this integration, Emacs gains features like precise syntax highlighting, accurate indentation and easier extensibility. Here's how you install and configure Emacs with tree-sitter support.
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There oughta be a bullet time video booth
For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth. - With an array of DSLRs to create a bullet time effect. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Since this is a very visual project, you should really watch the video. This blog post contains the same info with more details, but those…
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Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
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I Block Ads
I block ads in the browser. I block ads at the DNS level.
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Podman Desktop 1.0
Discover the advantages of Podman Desktop, which provides a user-friendly interface for developers to manage containers and Kubernetes from a local machine.
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Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
Attention—the time and freedom to focus—is your team’s most valuable resource.