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Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers
Discover Firebase, Google’s mobile and web app development platform that helps developers build apps and games that users will love.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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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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The IA Client – The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Archive
As someone who's uploaded hundreds of thousands of items to the Internet Archive's stacks and who has probably done a few million transactions with the materials over the years, I just "know" about the Internet Archive python client, and if you're someone who wants to interact with the site as a power user (or were
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Chrome 100
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 100 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 100 is also pr...
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator.
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What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?
Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorous Toolkit makes this possible by making the creation…
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Yarn 4.0
Today is the day! After more than a year of work, our team is excited to finally put a fancy "stable" sticker on the first release from the 4.x release line! To celebrate, let's make together a tour of the major changes; should you look for a more itemized list, take a look at the changelog.
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My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools
Update from Tines; The AI-native intelligent workflow platform
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Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
Update: Our recently updated Surveillance Self-Defense guide includes more background and detail on security threats facing mobile phone users. Check out the guide, and pay particular attention to The Problem With Mobile Phones. With major protests in the news again, we decided it's time to update...
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How to write a great README
This article explores what makes a great project README, how Appsmith made ours as accessible as possible and provides examples of other effective READMEs.
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Darktable 3.2.1
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
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Code Search at Google: Han-Wen and Zoekt
At Sourcegraph, we're inspired by developers that make a difference. Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt, an open source search engine for code based on Google's internal Code Search tool, is one of those inspiring developers.
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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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How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs
Learn how to read the output in MySQL EXPLAIN plans so you can utilize them to improve query performance.
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Magic-trace: Diagnose tricky performance issues with Intel Processor Trace
Intel Processor Trace is a hardware technology that can record all program execution flow along with timing information accurate to around 30ns. As far as I ...
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Metasploit 5.0 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Metasploit 5.0, the culmination of work by the Metasploit team over the past year. Learn more.
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A Random Walk Through Git
This tutorial is an in-depth look at how Git works, performing a lot of sometimes unusual steps to walk through interesting details. You will have to pay attention closely, or you will get lost on the way. But do not despair; you can run this tutorial on your computer, at the speed you want, skip to any step you want…
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Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
Spreadsheets, they’re everywhere. Following closely behind email and word processor documents, spreadsheets are possibly the most ubiquitous tool for knowledge workers. From simple lists to complex financial modeling, spreadsheets are the backbone of how modern business gets done. This isn’t a new phenomenon…
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ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
For nearly three decades; or November 1996 to be exact, PDFs have relied on Deflate—the same compression algorithm that powers your ZIP files. Meanwhile, the web moved on. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli, a compression algorithm so efficient it now powers 95% of internet traffic. Websites got faster. Downloads got…
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A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.
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Vagrant 1.4
Vagrant 1.4 has been released! This is a major new release of Vagrant with an incredible amount of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Vagrant 1.4 can be downloaded on our new downloads page. First, I have to thank the new core committers of Vagrant for building many of the incredible features and improvements…
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Reverse Debugging for Python
RevPDB A "reverse debugger" is a debugger where you can go forward and backward in time. It is an uncommon feature, at least in the open ...