Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,504 posts.
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of …
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
We have excellent tools to create and edit text (vim, emacs, sublime, etc.). We have pretty good tools to create and edit tabular data (excel, other spreadsh...
Here’s an HDR QR Code . If you’re viewing this on an Apple device’s built-in display, it should work. If the big QR code is brighter than the smaller one, it works.
Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
A list of the top ten static generators for building your next website
I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Se...
By Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali Norwood
In our State of the Union blog post, I mentioned that we’ve been working on some iOS proof of concept / research projects here in the Panic Office. It’s been a lot of fun for us.
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
I'll show you what good logging is with real-life examples. Most people don't know what to log, so they end up creating just noise....
When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it. PostgreSQL has a command line tool, psql, and it’s pretty powerful, but some people much prefer a graphical editor.
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.
How to move a running process into a tmux session
ShellCheck is a static analysis tool that points out common problems and pitfalls in shell scripts.
git rebase: what can go wrong?
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
Fig0. Photo of my workplace, my cat Noutti (my main inspiration for Carrot) says hello!
The major compilers have an enormous number of knobs . Most are highly specialized, but others are generally useful even if uncommon. For warnings, the venerable -Wall -Wextra is a good start, but circumstances improve by tweaking this warning set. This article covers high-hitting development-time options in GCC…
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs.
I set up my own VPS, documented every step, and ended up with a repeatable deployment pipeline. This is both a checklist for my future self and a guide for a...
Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian's project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete . Existing claims point vaguely at automation features without exhibiting a reduction. This article supplies a proof, with setup instructions and execution trace.
“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”
A look back at what I learned fixing my terrible SEO mistakes on my Gatsby websites
Erik Gahner Larsen
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
Everything you need to know to pull down, branch off of, squash, and fork in GitHub in one handy little guide.
A Python programmer handed her ~/.gitconfig to Master Git. Among the many lines were the following:
