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The Blender Studio Pipeline
First of a series of articles focused on the research and development of a fully open source CG production pipeline.
Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc
TL;DR To make a default Vim installation more useful, type the following 5 lines into its .vimrc file:
How To Take Exceptional Notes and Be Productive with Paper
Learn how a former Google PM transformed his productivity with an analog note-taking system. A practical guide to effective paper-based organization for startup leaders.
Visual Studio online available for public preview
GitHub Codespaces gets you up and coding faster with fully configured, secure cloud development environments native to GitHub.
Better Dotfiles
I am Dan, full stack software engineer.
AWS BugBust
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Announces AWS BugBust
AWS Copilot
AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on May 22, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer receive updates, security patches, or technical support. The first official command line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) was created in 2015. In December 2019, we shared the preview release of a…
Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog
COLOKSGP menghadirkan wajah hiburan digital dalam balutan inovasi teknologi, estetika modern, dan perkembangan industri permainan slot online di Asia. Lebih dari sekadar nama, COLOKSGP mencerminkan dinamika dunia permainan virtual yang terus berevolusi, mengutamakan pentingnya kemudahan akses informasi, transparansi…
Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
Question: Is the Raspberry Pi 4 any good? Answer: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors.
3D Printer Shootout – $600 Printrbot vs. $20,000 UPrint SE Plus
First, let's level set with a disclaimer. I am a smart enough person but a ...
Mate Desktop 1.24
After about a year of development, the MATE Desktop team have finally released MATE 1.24. A big thank you to all contributors who helped to make this happen. What's new in MATE 1.24 This release cont
Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub
GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and…
Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent...
Tidy First?
“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them)…
Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Apple announced OS X Yosemite today. Don't worry, Alfred is here to stay - and continues to grow beautifully.
Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them don’t always realise the variety of ways we can use – perhaps even abuse! – them. In this post, I’m going to explore some of the things I’ve learnt while using these wonderful tools. I’ll start at the basics, because the idea…
Kate is 20 years old
Kate just turned 20 today! As announced before, Kate turned twenty today. When did it start? Here again my initial request to the KWrite maintainer about my work on a 'MDI KWrite' later called Kate (sorry, German & spelling mistakes): From: Cullmann Christoph <crossfire@babylon2k.de> To: digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de…
Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
tl;dr I can do all of my programming and system admin work with an iPad Pro because I work on remote servers over ssh, and I prefer using the Unix/Linux command line.
Why I teach vim
The why of why people use vim has been covered fairly extensively, so I thought I would spend a little time explaining why I teach vim to my high school students, even in 2020. It all began when I …