Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,505 posts.
Zooko provides a nice example of the problems with most distributed version control systems merge algorithms. He gives an example of a merge situation that most version control systems, including git, get wrong, but that darcs, Codeville, SCCS, and perhaps BitKeeper get correct.
Here's a recipe you can follow when you want to add tests on Legacy Code, but you don't have much ti
External Links Yuki Subs Guides has a master list of guides of all you need to know about anime encoding. Also, go visit my MPC-HC + MadVR, mpv, and SVP 4 setup guide! Table of Contents x265 Settin…
Turborepo 1.2 introduces improved task filtering, artifact signing and integrity, human-readable and JSON dry runs, and more!
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Technologies like p...
This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.
Even if your approach to work is excellent and you are self-disciplined, from time to time, a nasty task will appear. Task that you will feel extreme resistance to, which will cause you to procrastinate. However, with the right approach, you can get cr...
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
I started using Emacs' OrgMode to log my days.
Markdoc delivers a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience. It enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
So cheap I bought three
Emacs has a shell written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Here's how you master Eshell, a versatile and powerful shell capable of supplanting bash or zsh as your daily driver.
Last week at JetBrains Day we talked a little bit about Upsource, a new platform we have been working on. In this post, we’d like to give you a bit of a deeper dive into it.For the past year or mo
I used to be a slave to my startups. If I wasn't working, I had a perpetual feeling of guilt that I should be working. I had a revelation one day when I realized I didn't have to read everything I found on the Internet.
We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 was a bit… underwhelming, to be honest. Part of that is because the Raspberry Pi Foundation favors incremental improvement ...
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
Open team communication means fewer distractions and more shared context. Why we default to public channels over DMs, and why it isn't just noise.
The current debate surrounding AVIF versus JPEG XL needs some third-party quantitative data to support arguments on either side. I've compiled a dataset of 27 high-resolution photographic images to compare performance across them all at a wide fidelity range.
2019 update: Wow, people are still reading this! I wrote this 6 years ago. I’m going to leave it unedited + add some new thoughts. With the benefit of hindsight, I think… thinking about productivity apps is a sort of proxy approach to thinking about productivity itself. I never did…
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
