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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)
Caddy can not only serve files fast and safely. It can also generate static files from markdown, so you dont need a generator.
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
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Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
A good tutorial can be found at Midnight Commander Guide . There is a mail list for MC in which you can ask questions and share tips: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/ . There at least a half-dozen of entry level tutorial for Mc on the Web including several YouTube videos (just search for Midnight commander on…
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Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work
On development teams, balancing priorities while keeping focus is hard. Without an intentional approach you can quickly find your team submerged in a lot of different work, hurting progress on your most important goals. But the real world is messy. Prioritization is hard. Work comes in many shapes and sizes. Unplanned…
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Can I have a smaller Prometheus
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about having a time series DB and visualization tool that is easy to use and light on resources, so it can be used locally for development. Tried se…
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Magic-trace: Diagnose tricky performance issues with Intel Processor Trace
Intel Processor Trace is a hardware technology that can record all program execution flow along with timing information accurate to around 30ns. As far as I ...
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Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022
I was curious to know if the functionality of VSCode can catch up with the native speed of some editors, such as Sublime. That led me to seek out where some bottlenecks may be and where time is being spent. In this post I look at both the internals and extensions.
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Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”
I like folders due to their cross compatibility, future proofing, interoperability, flexibility, focus, clarity, automation management &etc.
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The Curse of NixOS
I've used NixOS as the only OS on my laptop for around three years at this point. Installing it has felt sort of like a curse: on the one hand, it's so clearly the only operating system that actually gets how package management should be done. After using it, I can't go back to anything else. On the other hand, it's…
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Bad Emacs Advice
Most Emacs advice you'll find on the internet is largely good, and will improve your Emacs abilities, but people do occasionally share outright bad advice that harms your learning.
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How do you visualize code?
The other day I was reading about the development of personal computers and the desktop GUI, and I was thinking about how comfortable we all have become with the analogy of the “desktop” for our personal computers. We place files in folders and keep them on our desktops. There’s a lot of physical action going on…
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Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)
Master Git through understanding, not memorization. Learn branches, merges, and collaboration with clear explanations and visual diagrams.
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Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Through the development of Syntorial I've formed some pretty strong opinions when it comes to synthesis. So I figured I'd share them with the world in the
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Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
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Who Uses To-Do Lists?
Successful people who use to-do lists and the boring takeaway.
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Grep one-liners as CI tasks
Leveraging grep's exit status and output for simple code checks
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Dealing with APIs, JSON and databases in org-mode
A practical Org-mode workflow for calling APIs, working with JSON responses, and querying the resulting data with databases and executable blocks.
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Send text messages for free using Python
Using SMS and MMS gateways we can send text messages to phones from a computer via email. With this strategy we can use a combination of the Python SMTP and email library to send text messages programmatically for free! This not only includes short text messages, but also multimedia messages with pictures, videos, or…
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My process for building a feature
I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of …
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Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)
Regular readers would probably know that I have a love of batteries, and their associated test equipment. Maybe it was the fact that they were expensive, but pervasive, and my enjoyment as a child …
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The State of Web Scraping 2022
What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?
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Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
dsq is a commandline tool for running SQL queries against all the data file types that DataStation supports (JSON, CSV, Parquet, Excel, etc.). Here is a simple example: