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Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday
Routines aren't the only thing we need for a balanced life. Most of us spend our days switching tasks and it’s our rituals that help us get through them.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 102 posts.
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GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish
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Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype
Learn how to build a PCB prototype, define fabrication specifications, and create gerber files in our new comprehensive guide
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Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode
OfferZen flips the normal recruitment model around, so instead of applying for jobs, companies send you interview requests with upfront salary.
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Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor
Today, we're releasing two of the biggest updates in Mode's history, designed not only to make Mode more powerful, but also to make that power accessible to everyone.
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Spinning Up in Deep RL
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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New tools for open source maintainers
We're making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.
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Google Optimize now free for everyone
Businesses often have one big question for us: How can they better understand their website visitors and deliver more relevant, engaging experiences?
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To Yarn and Back to Npm Again
Yarn solved the annoying problems we faced using npm, but it came with issues of its own. Here are the problems of Yarn and solutions that we landed on.
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Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
This Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab web page is now available at https://textiles.cs.cmu.edu/publications/2018-autoknit/ .
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Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
Program a Linux GUI that runs on Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Fedora. In less than five minutes, your friends will be able to download and install your app.
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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent...
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Download all of your GitHub data
Now you can request an archive of your data from your account settings page.
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Introducing Azure DevOps
Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.
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When Does Work Actually Get Done?
Work gets done at 11AM on a Monday in October. At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.
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The Future of Transmit iOS
Hello. Here’s an update on Transmit iOS that I promise will not use the words “sunset” or “journey”.
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Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository
Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes various Git…
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Google’s revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta
We’re pleased to bring code search to you with the newly revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta availability.
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The Collector’s Fallacy
There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so…
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Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
Most machine learning tasks — from natural language processing to image classification to translation and many others — rely on derivative-free optimization to tune parameters and/or hyperparameter…
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All You Need to Know About UML Diagrams
UML was created in 1994 by engineers at Rational Software to standardize system diagrams. Of the 14 UML diagram types, activity and use case diagrams handle 80% of real-world business process documentation needs.
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Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool
From shopping to social media, the average online user will have hundreds of accounts requiring passwords. At the same time, the number of user data breaches occurring each year continues ...
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Architect – A Serverless Framework
I’m a believer in the power of frameworks, and for good reason — the bulk of my career as a programmer and technology leader involved the use of Rails. Durin...
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