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Tracking Every Release
We spend a lot of time gathering metrics for our network, servers, and many things going on within the code that drives Etsy....
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,091 posts.
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Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting
Read the latest news and technical tips about Source Code Management, Source Code Hosting, Perforce, SVN and Git.
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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
You’re an SEO. You’ve mastered Moz’s starter guide to Search Engine Optimization . You deal with botched site migrations, messy title tags across thousands of pages, earth-shaking Google algorithm changes, and more on the daily. Who would have thought that one of the toughest parts of your job would be getting your…
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Announcing Google Chart Tools
A good chart can tell a story, such as depicting when you get home on Saturday night by plotting your tweet patterns along the week . A good...
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Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Why TMUX over Screen? Well according to the FAQ for tmux it has the following…
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A true single-sided circuit board.
In electronics, it is common to talk about single sided circuit boards. The most common type is a circuit board that only has printed wiring on one side, and components on the other side. There are also surface-mount boards, where all the wiring and components sit on one side. But aren’t all of those really just…
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How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards
We build the best deployment and testing tools money can't buy. There's no prohibition on performance!
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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.
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After the Deadline now Open Source
After the Deadline, an intelligent checker for spelling and grammar, is now free software. The server software is available under the GNU General Public License. We’ve created a portal at whe…
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UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
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Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
The open source operating system that runs the world.
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Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser
Posted by Marc Miller, Software Engineer When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it -- I don't always need to download and sav...
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Xmonad + bluetile = making tiling windowing accessible to new users
The xmonad dev team is very proud to announce that the bluetile merge was completed today. The Bluetile branch is an experimental xmonad variant whose: focus lies on making the tiling paradigm ea…
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Why we skip Photoshop
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup. Here are a few reasons why we skip photoshop: You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Pap…
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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
With Twilio, unite communications and strengthen customer relationships across your business – from marketing and sales to customer service and operations.
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New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineer Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over te...
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Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail
As Shopify prepared to go public in 2015, I wrote a letter in our F1 filing that read,
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Backup your Database in Git
Short version : dump your production database into a git repository for an instant backup solution.