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The Importance of Excel
By James Kwak I spent the past two days at a financial regulation conference in Washington (where I saw more BlackBerries than I have seen in years—can’t lawyers and lobbyists afford decent p…
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Syncing and merging come to Bitbucket
When developing on a feature branch or a fork, your code can often get out of date. There are a number of reasons this might happen: You’re concentrating on a feature rather than syncing. You’re not yet ready to worry about integrating just yet. You’re returning to a stale branch or fork to pick up […]
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Sublime Text 3 Beta
The first beta of Sublime Text 3 is now available to download for registered users. Some feature highlights are below, followed by our new pricing and upgrade policies, and system compatibility for Sublime Text 3.
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The IDE as a value
In my last post I talked about building a game in ClojureScript using a Component-Entity-System engine and I hinted that the ideas that underly that architecture inspired how we designed Light Table . The reason why stems from the architectural goals of the project:
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Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
My colleague Martin Fowler recently posted a Bliki entry about InternalReprogrammability , lamenting the diminishing mind share of tools that allow extremely fine grained customizability, such as Emacs and Smalltalk. I agree whole heartedly with his sentiment; I covered some of the same ground in my Abstraction…
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Basecamp Personal
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a collaboration tool for small businesses (or small groups inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’ve also heard from many thousands of people who use Basecamp outside of work. They’ve turned to Basecamp to help them ma…
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Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"
A project I started before Christmas (i.e. about a month ago) is now production ready.
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SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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How to Write an Opening Sentence
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Save your eyes, start using f.lux
Software to warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.
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Improved wikis with more markup options
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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Advanced Vim Registers
Registers in Vim are best thought of as scratch spaces for text, some of which are automatically filled by the editor in response to certain actions. Learning how to use registers fluently has a lot of subtle benefits, although it takes some getting used to because the syntax for using them is a little awkward.
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One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email
The cold email tactic I’m about to share is not only for sales and business development professionals; it’s a unique cold email strategy that can be used
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