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What’s Hiding in Your PDF?
PDFs hold information you may not know about. Discover different forms of metadata and where to look for them.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 283 posts.
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Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
This release contains a lot of bugfixes, improvements and a couple new options. Big thanks to all contributors who made this release possible! See the full changelog for details.
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Thunderbird 60.0 release
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS
Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS!
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Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter
sqlfmt is an opinionated SQL formatter. It’s not designed to be completely customizable, and we hope to remove options over time. Use it and stop thinking about how to format SQL.
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Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
A detailed look at how we replaced the most performance-sensitive portions of the source-map JavaScript Library’s source map parser with Rust code that is compiled to WebAssembly. The results: The ...
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Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
As part of our recently announced deal with Apple Music [https://genius.com/a/genius-gets-smart-with-apple-music], you can now view Genius lyrics for your favorite music within the Apple Music app. We deliver our lyrics to Apple via a nightly export of newline-delimited JSON objects.
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Sublime Text 3.1 Released
Since version 3.0 we've been shipping frequent dev builds , refining Sublime Text for a more polished experience all-around. Those dev builds are now rolling out to everyone as Sublime Text 3.1. The full changelog for 3.1 includes every detail, but the following are some we'd like to highlight:
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Questions to ask yourself when writing tests
Talk to yourself to make sure your tests help you achieve your aims
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Making an emperor bed
In 2012 or 2013, I stumbled across the Wikipedia page for Bed Sizes [ 1 ] and discovered that the UK had two sizes larger than America's King or California King: The Emperor (7'x7') and The Caesar (8'x7')
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Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
A simpler solution for a complicated problem
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Advantages of monolithic version control
Someone : Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me : Yeah! It's really convenient, don't you think? Someone : That's THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I've ever heard. Don't FB and Google know what a terrible idea it is to put all your code in a single repo? Me : I think engineers at FB and Google are…
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Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2
How to use a bare ESP-12F module as a standalone IoT/MQTT node — powered directly from a USB charger with just a handful of passive componen...
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Hello P5.js Web Editor
Today we are excited to announce the official release of editor.p5js.org! The p5.js Web Editor is an online platform for learning to code…
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True cost of email: We only get 1h 12min/day of uninterrupted productive time
Email and IM are always there in the background, compelling us to click over for a "quick" check in. But these add up. Which made us ask: How much of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools? And just how bad is it for your productivity?
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The worst distractions are the ones we love
In this interview, author James Clear discusses the biggest issues facing the modern worker, from how to clear away the noise to finding the values that motivate you every day.
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My favorite principle for code quality
The Embedded Design principle, Jimmy Koppel's favorite principle for code quality, shown via caching code that looks fine but invites bugs.
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Email marketing for e-commerce
Send the right email to the right customer at the right time. Learn more about email marketing for ecommerce.
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Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful search for private code
Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin.
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VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation
TinaCMS is the successor to Forestry.io, now maintained by SSW. Migrate your Forestry site to Tina with our step-by-step guide and enjoy enhanced visual editing features.
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet