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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 140 posts.
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Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
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Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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Hypertext Tools from the 80s
The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.
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New GitHub themes for VS Code
New GitHub Light Default, GitHub Dark Default and GitHub Dark Dimmed themes matching the official github.com themes are now available in VS Code. To start using the new themes, go…
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod
We've barely scratched the surface of the Pi Zero 2's capabilities. [Brian Dorey] shows us how to hack your Pi's WiFi and improve its performance. A u.FL footprint can be discovered in line with the onboard WiFi antenna, implying that someone had to connect an external antenna.
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Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)
A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anymore! In this post I will start by explaining the value of git blame and […]
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Introducing dbt + Materialize
Efficient SQL data transformations & real-time analytics with dbt + Materialize: a powerful operational data warehouse combo.
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What is property-based testing? (2016)
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you'd think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven't. This is my attempt to fix that.
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Vantage users can now add a Slack webhook to their Vantage account and receive daily, weekly or monthly reports of their cloud costs in their team's Slack channels.
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Multiperspective Diagramming – A guide for system engineers
A multiperspective diagramming guide for system, software, cloud, network, and other engineers.
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Zorin OS 16
We’re thrilled to finally share our next giant leap with the release of the Zorin OS 16 Beta today. We paid close attention to your feedback when …
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How to Create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel
Describes how to create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel using Excel's charting capabilities
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Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?
When you search for executions of a function in Pernosco (or set a breakpoint in a more traditional debugger), how does the debugger decide where to stop? You might think it just stops at the first instruction in a function, but that's not true in general. Debuggers actually stop immediately after the function's…
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VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
The new VM Manager simplifies infrastructure and compliance management for the largest of Compute Engine VM fleets.
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5M+ Wordpress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin
Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.