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It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
The difference between note-taking and note-making
Note-taking is fast, uses the original author's language, and feels easier. Note-making is slower, more involved, and uses your own language.
Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up
The slow march of progress in programming language tooling
Discover how programming language tooling has evolved over time and why newer languages like Go and Rust have gained popularity due to their compre...
I love my Amazon Workspace
Early last year my colleague Steve Mueller stopped by my office to tell me about an internal pilot program that he thought would be of interest to me. He explained that they were getting ready to run Amazon WorkSpaces on the Amazon network and offered to get me on the waiting list. Of course, being […]
IntelliJ IDEA 12 Wins Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013
We are excited to announce that a few days ago IntelliJ IDEA 12 was named the winner of the Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013, an annual award run by Dr. Dobbs to showcase the best IDEs and coding tool
Boards in Asana
Learn more about Boards in Asana -- a simple, visual way to track your team's work -- and how to use it.
Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides
Sublime Text 2 Build 2111 is available now , with new features including indent guides, improved project support, new commands for working with HTML, and last but not least, Vintage Mode , adding support for vi key bindings.
How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
Bitwarden includes a very handy integration called forwarded email aliases. Learn how to use the feature in this blog!
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.
A guide to reduce screen time
An extensive guide with over 40 tips to learn how to reduce your screen time. Understand the causes and meet your objectives with these tools and techniques.
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…
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.
Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from 'Nightly' status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that ...
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 ...
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…
There's no magic: virtualenv edition
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.