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Text Processing in the Shell
A quick overview of the most common text processing terminal tools and why they should be part of your day-to-day toolbox.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,504 posts.
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Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
We can mostly blame Internet Explorer, as always.
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Messing with scraper bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints
In my spare time I’ve been working on a database of Japanese prints for a little over 3.5 years now. I’m fully aware that I’ve never actually written about this, personally very important, project on my blog — until now. Unfortunately this isn’t a post explaining that project. I do still hope to write more about the…
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The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
Language models have rapidly improved in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 taking center stage. These models have…
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TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
The excitement for a new version has been tremendous and today we’re finally able to repay the much appreciated loyalty and moral support from the community by releasing the first public alpha: TextMate 2.0 alpha .
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I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
Grocery shopping has been one of my least favorite chores, even before the pandemic. Unlike many people I know, I always preferred online shopping over going to the supermarket. Now it’s not a matter
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Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
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Vim Reference Guide
Concise learning resource for beginner to intermediate level Vim users
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Back to the Future with RSS
How to save the open web, & get (re)started with RSS
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Twitter's missing manual
I mentioned recently, buried in a post about UI changes, that Twitter’s latest earnings report included this bombshell: We are going to fix the broken windows and confusing parts, like the .@name syntax and @reply rules, that we know inhibit usag
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Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font
Pixels of LCD monitors are usually composed of three stripes of the colors red, green, and blue. Tech enthusiast Matt Sarnoff used this property to his advantage when inventing [a subpixel text encoding font](http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/). Its glyphs are comprised of colored strips only one pixel wide. But when…
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Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
Understanding large codebase can be incredibly difficult. In this post I walk through how I learn a codebase use turbopack as my case study.
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How I Build
My idea of a vacation might be weird to some. Sure, I like sunshine, I like beaches – but more than all that, I like making stuff with computers.
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GitHub and Jira Software Integration
New integration enables software teams to connect their code on GitHub.com to their projects on Jira Software Cloud
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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
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Latest Mozilla VPN features
It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in on
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Scripting with Go
The Unix shell is pure wizardry. Why shouldn’t it be as easy to write systems programs in Go as it is in the shell? The script library is the secret spell-book that makes this possible.
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Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a per...
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Colorize Your CLI
A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.