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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 135 posts.
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Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
The Scala Center team is extremely happy to announce that Scastie is out of beta! That means anyone can use Scala in the browser over at scastie.scala-lang.org !
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Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend
How much should you spend on your Kickstarter video? Indiegogo video? We asked 100 campaigns and found that video budgets vary between $0k-$100k and increase with campaign size. Read on to learn what budget, length, location, tone is best for your Kickstarter video, Indiegogo video
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A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration
Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
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Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
Heap’s infrastructure runs on AWS, and we manage it using Terraform. This post is a collection of tips and gotchas we’ve picked up along the way.
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Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
First launched in 2013, Telegram Desktop graduates to version 1.0 today. We've added a fabulous new design and support for custom themes.
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Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0
Today, we are releasing .NET Core Tools 1.0. It’s an exciting day and an important milestone in the .NET Core journey. The tools are supported on Windows, macOS and Linux. You can use them at the command-line, with VS Code or as part of Visual Studio 2017. You can download the new .NET Core tools […]
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug
I hate writing blog posts like this. In Arq 5.7.9 we changed the way Arq caches the list of objects at the destination for AWS, Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage. For those 3 destination types, all non-packed objects were stored in one “objects” directory. If you had years of backups and/or terabytes of data, […]
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Customizing My Postgres Shell
As a developer your CLI is your home. This post walks through some favorite customizations of the Postgres .psqlrc file, configurations that will make you more efficient in your use of Postgres. If you setup your psqlrc today, you can enjoy psql as much as your shell.
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Changes to Google Scholar
If you thought Google Scholar had about twenty different screens, you'd be half right. We have just made it easier to find your way around ...
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Chrome 59 stable released
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 59 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ov...
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Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 3 devices tend to overheat when they run prolonged heavy loads. When the processor’s internal temperature approaches 85 degrees Celsius, it protects itself by downclocking or shutting down completely. This can adversely affect performance of AI models.
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Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly
CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design. It’s a flexible, simple design standard that can be used across all browsers and devices. That's why we built CSS Grid Inspector. We’ve been ...
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New Teams Features
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Pixelmator Pro released
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.
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Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available
Today we are proud to announce that Heroku CI, a low-configuration test runner for unit and browser testing that is tightly integrated with Heroku...
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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…
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Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler
A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
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Sysdig Inspect: A GUI for System Call Analysis
Sysdig Inspect is a powerful interface for container troubleshooting and security investigation that uses sysdig capture files for local analysis
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The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing…
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Untangling Jenkins
Eliminate secrets sprawl and automate credential rotation across hybrid and multicloud environments with centralized, enterprise-grade secrets management.
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In search of the perfect writing font
Monospace is the typical choice that communicates writing. With iA Writer Duospace, we went a step ahead. What makes Duo better than mono?
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How to build a JavaScript package manager
Hello everyone! Today, we’re gonna write a new package manager, even better than Yarn! Ok, maybe not, but at least we’re gonna have some fun, learn how packa...
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Open Beta of Texpad 1.8, macOS LaTeX editor with integrated realtime typesetting
LaTeX editor for macOS, iOS and Windows with syntax highlighting, multi-file support and integrated PDF (formerly called Texpad)
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Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js
Time-traveling in the execution history of a program during debugging enables a developer to precisely track and understand the sequence of statements and program values leading to an error. To provide this functionality to real world developers, we embarked on a two year journey to create a production quality…
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