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Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time
What was the most productive day of 2017? How often do we get distracted by emails or IM? By analyzing millions of hours of anonymized data, we found out.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 102 posts.
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering
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Homebrew 1.5.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.5.0. The most significant changes since 1.4.0 are deprecations of formula APIs and some Homebrew organisation formula taps.
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Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
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Evaluation of five password managers
With an interactive grid to help you pick one!
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Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI
If you develop applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you probably spend a lot of time in the GCP command line. But as we grow our GCP services, the number of commands and flags is growing by leaps and bounds. So today, we’re introducing a new command line interface (CLI) that lets you discover—and use—all these…
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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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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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How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
Walkthrough of an IoT Potty Button which makes a phone call when a kid has to go. With Python, Twilio, AWS IoT, Lambda and an IoT Button build one-touch alerts to make a phone call. Includes sample code and links to build your own poop button or extend the idea.
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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.
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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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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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Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
A simpler solution for a complicated problem
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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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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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Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
Introduction Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon...
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Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password
1Password integrates with Pwned Passwords, a feature of Have I Been Pwned that allows you to check if your passwords have been leaked on the Internet.