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Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
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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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Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera
Why buy a bespoke camera when you can do something much harder instead?
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Your test suite is trying to tell you something
A few weeks ago I started wondering about 'the test that occasionally and randomly breaks' in a large test suite at my job. The test, calle...
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A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers
Most people who know me well know I really like apples. I'm a big fan for a lot of reasons- taste, texture, the fact that they're a symbol of my favorite season, the sheer quantity of accessible food that can grow on a single tree, et cetera. Last year, I decided I wanted to make some homemade apple cider. I bought a…
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How To Build A Blog Readership
Discuss this post on Hacker News Despite the recent success of this blog over the past year (250,000 uniques, hundreds of new subscribers, republished in L
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Packet capturing on Windows with netsh
No Wireshark? No TCPDump? No Problem!, Author: Rob VandenBrink
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Reading a VGA monitor's configuration data with I2C and a PocketBeagle
Have you ever wondered how your computer knows all the characteristics of your monitor— the supported resolutions, the model, and even the...
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Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
A couple of weeks ago, I started to work with Emacs, and I grow fonder of it every day. During a very short time period, it has become my go-to editor for nearly everything I do on my computer, including (but not limited to) planning my Todos (in org-mode, to be precise), setting up my agenda (org-mode again), taking…
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Curl Command Line Variables
If you are anything like me, you appreciate solving your every day simple tasks directly from the command line. Creating crafty single shot command lines or a small shell script to solve that special task you figured out you needed and makes your day go a little smoother. A fellow command line cowboy. Video…
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How to build a JavaScript package manager
Hello everyone! Today, we’re gonna write a new package manager, even better than Yarn! Ok, maybe not, but at least we’re gonna have some fun, learn how packa...
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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60W equivalent LED bulb uses 9.5W and costs $13
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Write Posix Shell
write posix shell 2023-03-10 /\ {.-} ;_.-'\ { _.}_ \.-' / `, \ | / \ | ,/ [0] \|_/ what is shell? most people in tech are familiar with shell scripts. but shell is a language! ... shit. actually. wait, let me rephrase- most people _use_ shell. most people _avoid_ shell. but mostly most people _hate_ shell. but should…
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Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
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Emacs commands I got by with for years
As far as I know, the next meeting of EmacsATX, the Austin Emacs Meetup group , has a planned topic: Org mode . I was going to make a post about the common Org functions I use frequently, but I thought that I should start with common commands I used for generic Emacs when I started using it more than twenty years ago…
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My Contribution to Markdown
At long last revealed.
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Using Two ReMarkables
I'm a PhD student currently, which means that I spend most of my work life reading, or thinking about what I should read next. The timelines for my reading schedules range from what I need to read before a class or meeting next week, to what I ought to read for a paper or research trajectory that won't have any…
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Hyprland Crash Course
For the past week I have been configuring hyprland and using it as my daily driver. Coming from major Desktop Environments like KDE or Gnome, this was definitely quite challanging, specially when implementing features that we take it for granted on these DEs, like screen sharing or screenshot annotating.
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New hard drive rituals (2018)
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat your data at any time. Entire businesses are built around their…
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My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
JetBrains, the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, offer a range of powerful IDEs for all kinds of programming languages. I would like to share my favorite shortcuts for their IDEs.