Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,416 posts.
Python application distribution is generally considered an unsolved problem. At their PyCon 2019 keynote talk, Russel Keith-Magee identified code distribution as a potential black swan - an existential threat for longevity - for Python. In their words, Python hasn't ever had a consistent story for how I give my code…
https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0
I’m happy to announce the release of v0.0.7 of the Light Table Playground . This version is a serious upgrade to the Instarepl that brings the ability to manually evaluate things and work in your own projects.
Org Mode HTML output can look like this webpage, but as its [[http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.co...
Every once in a while someone notices the first commit in the Go repo is dated 1972:
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.
Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle.
Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with…
The website of Ike Saunders
Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour.
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
This was a good thing . YAML anchors in GitHub Actions are (1) redundant with existing functionality, (2) introduce a complication to the data model that makes CI/CD human and machine comprehension harder, and (3) are not even uniquely useful because GitHub has chosen not to support the one feature (merge keys) that…
An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering.
Check the discussion on Hacker News about this post for a lively discourse and more tips! If you’ve used an *nix system, at some point you’ve stumbled upon Midnight Commander, a file manager based on the venerable Norton Commander. You’re probably familiar with the basic operations (F5 for copying, F6 for moving, F8…
Don't break the chain.
Jeff Kreeftmeijer's Vim configuration
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the…
Apple's effort to improve the UX of math.
As you’re reading through our reviews or researching the best backpacks yourself, you may see a profusion of various technical terms being…
We can use the `createWebArchiveData` method on `WKWebView` to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.
Changing the case of text can change the size of the corresponding QR code. This is one of the reasons Bitcoin moved from Base58 to bech32 encoding.
