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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,504 posts.
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Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
Containers allow for cookies (a small file used for storing information) as well as other relevant files to be isolated either independently or collectively as a group (for example you could have a finance container). Isolating cookies inside of containers prevents other sites from being able to access them, thus…
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Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
Ask Claude to explain a concept or analyze your data, and it can respond with interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations — rendered inline as part of the conversation.
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A Mac Podcast App You Can't Have
I wasn't going to write this post because I've already said most of what I wanted to on Twitter [http://twitter.com/steve228uk]. Yesterday though, I changed my mind when I saw this Tweet from Product Hunt. > The Best Podcast Apps for Mac 🎙️🖥️ Add your favorite 👉 https://t.
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Is group chat making you sweat?
Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group ch…
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Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit
I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far.
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Keep a Log
One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for…
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Internet search tips
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
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Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
Learn how to achieve flow state and defeat digital distractions through environment design, mindful breaks, and deep work practices for a more focused life.
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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BinDiff now available for free
Posted by Christian Blichmann, Software Engineer BinDiff is a comparison tool for binary files that helps to quickly find differences and ...
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Wycheproof – Tests that check cryptographic software for known weaknesses
Posted by Daniel Bleichenbacher, Security Engineer and Thai Duong, Security Engineer We’re excited to announce the release of Project Wyche...
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My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev
An overview of some of my favorite shaders, algorithms, and techniques I use to aid my work in procedural gamedev and 3D scenes. It focuses particularly on things that can be added or mixed in to enhance non-procedural scenes.
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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0
This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, …
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Lobotomizing Gnome
I have pretty basic needs from my desktop. I do 99% of my work using just three programs: a terminal emulator, Emacs, and Firefox. I don't want a lot of bells and whistles in my desktop, and I really just want it to get out of the way so I can do my work.
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How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Tmux is worse-is-better
tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to…
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iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
The iPhone 13 Pro features a new camera capable of focusing closer than ever before—less than an inch away. This opens a whole new dimension for iPhone photographers, but it’s not without surprises. Let’s take a tour of what this lens unlocks, some clever details you might
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UI is hell: four-function calculators
One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in interface design.
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
I talk about tree sitter, CEDET, and Combobulate -- my "paredit-style" package that's designed to work with most programming languages.
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IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support
We are back with our first bug-fix release for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3! The improved v2020.3.1 polishes the recently released features and supports Apple Silicon! That’s right, Apple fans, you can now wo
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Running LLaMA 7B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with Llama.cpp
See also: Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment right now .
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Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late
This aesthetic screenshot of an old windows app has been in my inspiration space for ~5 years. Until recently, I assumed that it was just a nostalgia bait concept.