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Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy valuable stuff – like adapters or handlers or … yeah – all kind of stuff. With …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,505 posts.
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Designing and assembling my first PCB
About a couple months ago I purchased an Arduino Nano ESP32 dev board. I had this sudden itch and I wanted to play around with hardware. I don't really have much experience in this space, besides working on firmware for an IoT company over a decade ago, but I've written tons of software over the years. I was very…
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Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
In order to hide your IP address and to try and limit throttling when web scraping, it might be a good idea to use a proxy such as Tor. This post describes how to use Python based web scraping tools and Tor to hide yourself when scraping websites for data. However, it can also be used more broadly when using Python to…
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The Magic CmdLine and how I got it back
What am I running inside my bash?
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Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
Yubikeys are great for security, but their benefits decrease somewhat when you leave them in your computer unattended. I also have login passwords that are way too long. How to solve these problems? Use a Yubikey to unlock your computer!
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How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox
Should I host my blog on here?
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
Create, share, and play with small Electron experiments.
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Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
A short rant. I have seen this problem happen too many times to stay quiet anymore. I have reached out in private when this happens, but I'm going to write a public rant so I can stop repeating myself.
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Atom's autocomplete just got better
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer
3d printing projects, Ultimaker and other DIY 3d stuff
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Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site
Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and coll...
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Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend
How much should you spend on your Kickstarter video? Indiegogo video? We asked 100 campaigns and found that video budgets vary between $0k-$100k and increase with campaign size. Read on to learn what budget, length, location, tone is best for your Kickstarter video, Indiegogo video
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How I Program Stuff
My method for writing code I care about: isolate myself for confidence and energy, eliminate every distraction, then code ruthlessly with no regrets.
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Positron, a New Data Science IDE
We are excited to introduce Positron , a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context…
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Interactive Code Cells
Like Jupyter notebooks, but for any language.
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Making Your Own Tools
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Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
Tiddlywiki is a great tool, but because it runs in the browser, it has only limited access to the filesystem to save changes. This has led to dozens of tools called "savers" that work with Tiddlywiki to save it. These span the gamut, including full fledged desktop apps (most notably TiddlyDesktop ), browser…
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Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android
Visit the post for more.
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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
UPDATE 1/5/2022: We have begun rolling out the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Wi
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Falling for Kubernetes
I default to bare metal where I can. But recently I had to adopt a more complicated server management solution. And after a couple months of building for kubernetes, I must admit I'm falling for it more every day.
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I love my Bluetooth keyboard
I recently went on a ten day trip to China where I didn’t take my computer. 1 I still wanted the ability to take notes quickly, so I bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone.
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A Tour of the Acme Editor
People I work with recognize my computer easily: it's the one with nothing but yellow windows and blue bars on the screen. That's the text editor acme, written by Rob Pike for Plan 9 in the early 1990s. Acme focuses entirely on the idea of text as user interface. It's difficult to explain acme without seeing it…
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Why we’re dropping Basecamp
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of…
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I wish Asciidoc was more popular
I've been using Markdown for a long time, and have grown accustomed to it. It has various quirks, features, and oddities, but what doesn't…
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Use Zsh
Zsh is the new hotness. Well newer and hotter than Bash anyway, since the first version of Bash was released in June 1989, while the young and peppy …
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My Second Brain – Zettelkasten
For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes. Partly notes to help clarify my understanding of something and partly for...
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Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links
Greenwich, an experiment in collaborative curation