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PunchClock: Fun With iBeacons
Sometimes at Panic we build internal stuff that never sees the light of the outside world. This is one of those projects: an automatic in/out tracker for the Panic Team.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
Building the ultimate computational knowledge engine is a highly ambitious and long-term project. The Wolfram|Alpha that you will get to start exploring next week is really just the beginning. Still, there are a lot of ways that you might use Wolfram|Alpha.
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Plans to Re-enable the GitHub Integration
Update on plans to re-enable the Github integration from Heroku Product Management and Heroku Principal Architect.
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Dropbox Chooser
Dropbox makes it easy to share files online. Share large files, folders, documents, and photos, and more. Sign up for a free trial to get started.
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Selenium 2.0: Out Now
We are very, very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0. If you’ve been waiting for a stable release since 1.0.3, now’s the chance to update. And if you do, what will you find…
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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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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information
Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.
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Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store
At Build 2016 we announced the Desktop App Converter, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and then extend it with UWP functionality. With this, we’ve enabled the path to migrate an app or game to all Windows 10 devices over time – including…
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A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects
A simple Makefile for C or C++ that automatically finds sources, determines include flags, and sets up header dependencies.
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A new public beta of GitHub Releases
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
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Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket
Have you ever wanted to make a quick change to a file in a repository without having to clone it locally? You want to edit your code where it lives. Introducing the Bitbucket online editor: edit your code directly with Bitbucket – no command line, no cloning, no local editor. Edit any file, anywhere From Bitbucket…
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CoreOS Vagrant Images
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk
Build a Twilio Hard Phone with Twilio SIP, Raspberry Pi, Asterisk, FreePBX, and the Obihai OBi100
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Exploring Emacs
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Making PyPI's test suite faster
See how we slashed PyPI’s test suite runtime from 163 to 30 seconds. The techniques we share can help you dramatically improve your own project’s testing performance without sacrificing coverage.
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Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the funky way
The crontab man page ("man 5 crontab" or read online) contains this bit: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (i.e., don't start with *), the command will be run when either field matches the current [...]
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Introducing Google JS Test
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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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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How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity
Facebook has announced that it’s teaming up with four of the world’s largest corporate data brokers to “enhance” the ad experience for users. Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai obtain information gathered about users through online means (such as through cookies when users surf the web) as...
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Go has a debugger and it's awesome
Something that often, uh... bugs Go developers is the lack of a proper debugger. Builds are ridiculously fast and easy, but sometimes it would be nice to just set a breakpoint and step through that endless if chain or print a bunch of values without recompiling ten times.