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Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino
Build you own DIY Home Automation Using Twilio, PowerSwitch, Arduino, and Pusher
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole
Over the past few months I've had an ergonomic keyboard obsession. It started out simple, just wanting to improve my typing experience. It ended with me writing a driver. This is my story - now available as an audiobook!
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Firefox Picture-in-Picture
Got things to do and things to watch? Do both using Picture-in-Picture in Firefox. It lets you pop a video out of its webpage and pin it to your screen so you can keep watching while you're on other pages, tabs and apps.
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The Docker Compose Specification
Docker is pleased to announce that we have created a new open community to develop the Compose Specification.
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Firefox’s New Memory Tool
Firefox Developer Edition 44, released last week, includes a brand new memory tool to help you understand how your web applications are using and retaining memory. This is especially useful ...
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces…
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Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size
Examining why some popular iOS apps suddenly got bigger after releasing with Xcode 14.
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Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
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Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
The new incident management tool is available in preview for Grafana Cloud users.
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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
PortableApps.com has hit the 1 billion portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 1,000,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users in dozens of languages all over the world. All of the 1 billion portable apps served from PortableApps.com were freeware or open source software which run on our open source, free…
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More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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Self-Documented Makefile
Good projects are automated projects. But documenting all those Make targets in a README file doesn't make much sense, when you can make the Makefile auto-documented.
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FFmpeg 101 (2024)
A high-level architecture overview to start with FFmpeg.
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GitHub code search is generally available
The world’s code is now at your fingertips.
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A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law, the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus...
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Darktable 2.0 released
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0 as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksums are: $ sha256sum…
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Evaluation of five password managers
With an interactive grid to help you pick one!
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Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
Today we are launching lcl.host , a free devtool for web developers to quickly setup & use HTTPS locally. With lcl.host , you get a secure browser context in development that matches your production environment. Eliminate mixed asset issues, CORS errors, and secure cookie misconfiguration before they cause problems in…
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Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
We compare and contrast the top code editors that you use in your browser.
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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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Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
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The Panic Status Board
This is good. But a lot of things happening means a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… using technology!
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Introducing Heroku Button
At Heroku, we want to make the process of deploying, running and updating code simple and easy. To that end, we’re launching the Heroku Button: a simple HT
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Textmate 2 on Github
Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub .
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We Switched to Mattermost
Secure workloads with Identity-First Reachability. NetFoundry closes inbound ports and replaces VPNs for simpler, zero-trust networking.