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Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
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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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I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
Are expensive clothes really worth their price? I took a data-supported look at how to clean up and restock your closet.
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
Do you use a free Dropbox account? As of March 2019, you can only connect Dropbox with three devices. Here's how to work around the limit.
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Should notes be end-to-end encrypted?
A comprehensive guide about the different types of encryption, the upsides and downsides, and how to make decisions about how much encryption you need for note-taking, passwords, or anything else.
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Why Kakoune
Recently I’ve stumbled upon a video about Kakoune, a code editor: Idiot user tries to use Kakoune (for notes? Also Helix?). Funnily enough, I was mentioned in this video, which was a surprise, and made me laugh for quite a while: Let’s go back to the official plugins page.
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Building a Treasury Bond Ladder
A US treasury bond ladder is a great alternative to a high-yield savings account or CDs to invest short-term funds that you don't want to put at risk. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds (treasuries) are US government debt securities that may pay interest and return the principal at a specific time. While not FDIC…
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The declining profitability of Google Adwords
Google Adwords used to be a great way to get targeted traffic cheaply (if you knew what you were doing). I think those days are well and truly over. I have been using Google Adwords to advertise my…
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State of HTML 2023 now open
While the survey will be open for 3 weeks, responses entered within the first 9 days (until October 1st) will have a much higher impact on the Web, as preliminary data will be used to inform Interop 2024 proposals.
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
In this series I'll be documenting my journey learning Nix and this first installment is more of a prequel. A common complaint when learning Nix is that the documentation "is not good", and I think what people mean by that is that the documentation is spread across several sources which may or may not be easy to find…
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Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Maybe you’re a Claude code/codex user diligently avoiding uploading personal data to LLM providers. Is it possible that the most valuable information isn’t your data- but the metadata about your sessions? The intuitions you apply in coming up with ways to coax the ai into solving problems might actually be special…
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Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024
In the first half of 2024, Ruby LSP has seen significant enhancements, particularly in the area of code navigation, thanks to the advancement of its indexer. In this post, we’ll dive into the major code navigation enhancements that have been made to Ruby LSP. We’ll also touch on some experimental features that are on…
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How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
Is it possible to become invisible without breaking the law? (Photo: gravitywave) LOS ANGELES, MID-JUNE 2008 Sitting on a plush couch in the neon-infused nightclub, I asked again: “What’s it about?” Neil Strauss glanced around and looked nervous, which I found strange. After all, we’d known each other for close to two…
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Moving from Hey to Fastmail
A summary on my personal experience and how you can do it too!
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Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally
Kubernetes is a big and complicated technology and it clearly requires some time and dedication to wrap your head around. There is no vendor lock-in…
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Tools I Use - tmux
Why I switched from GNU screen to tmux: horizontal and vertical splits, sane defaults, and auto-arranged panes. Plus my short .tmux.conf and resources.
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How you can track your personal finances using Python
In this post, I'd like to describe how you can track your personal finances using a workflow that is highly focused on data privacy, is 100% self-hosted, and uses only the Python ecosystem.
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Noosphere, a Protocol for Thought
Your brain on IPFS
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SourceTree for Windows beta
Today we are deprecating a Sourcetree-specific portion of the Atlassian Account sign-in API and it will be unreachable after 16 Oct 2019. One year ago we shipped an all-new onboarding experience in 3.0 for both Mac and Windows powered by a Bitbucket login in your default browser. Prior to that, in early 2018, we…
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Digital Gardening in Obsidian
Observing growth in my notes without being overwhelmed.
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The Jujutsu version control system
The missing introduction.
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Hello, Dynaboard
Today we’re launching the private beta of Dynaboard, a new platform that reimagines web application development and extends it beyond the text editor.
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My favourite Zsh features
Software development blog of Joe Wright
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Look before you paste from a website to terminal
All about making life easier and efficient with Linux
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Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data
I've always held a fascination for maps; from my first days exploring the GeoDjango project, to writing clustering systems and map renderers, to my experiments in indoor 3D mapping .
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Helix 22.12
A post-modern modal text editor.