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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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Automate Everything - the hacker way
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...
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Speed Up Git Pull
Note: Results may vary, depending on distance from your Git servers. In my completely unscientific benchmarks using time, after the following steps, …
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I Will File Bugs for You (2014)
This post prompted by Aaron Klotz’s Diffusion of Responsibility and Sumana Harihareswara’s Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source .
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Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
After watching this year’s EmacsConf and seeing Guile Emacs being resurrected I thought to myself - why limit ourselves to Guile? Sure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design. Other languages exist for Guile VM, such as Emacs Lisp, and Guile manual lists the following…
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Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer
Why just print forms and airline tickets from an inkjet printer when you can print electronics! All you need to do is to replace the…
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
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Exploring Databases Visually
Things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images: generate contextual entity-relationship diagrams and navigate your data model from the inside!
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Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints
So far everything we’ve done with breakpoints involved us creating a breakpoint file and using this to automate part of a track. Now we’ll take a look at how we can take an existing track and extract some breakpoints from this. For this post, we’ll take a look at extracting the amplitudes from the .wave files, as this…
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How to unit test code that depends on time
Suppose that the logic of your program depends on time. That is, you need to keep track of when something in the past happened, and what tim...
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I just want to run this one Python script
So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems… Ever had a script that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic
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The death and rebirth of my home server
steen's online burrow
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Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent
A modest defense of the rodent So, Emacs and the mouse. This is an unexpectedly contentious topic, with discussions that end, at best, with careless dismissal. More often they turn into arguments with folks talking past one another. The advantages of using the mouse for common actions in Emacs are immediate and…
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Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions
Far too many developers use Git without understanding it. It's time to straighten out your thinking about what Git is, and isn't.
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Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better
Oculus Go, like all products, is the result of a series of compromises around cost, schedule, quality, and competence. It is clearly the best standalone VR platform on the market, but anyone …
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ANSI escape codes (2019)
My team writes a lot of command line tools, and we like to assume that people aren’t using a literal VT100 (meaning: we liberally use colours, italics, and basically every other terminal feature available to us). This tends to result in strings in our code that look a little like this:
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Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
I'm driven by the belief that we must not sacrifice our humanness for technology.
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Using Gmail with Mutt
A tutorial on using gmail with mutt, a console-based email client, along with some advanced concepts such as encrypting your account password and sending emails from a different <code>From</code> address.
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How to build a circular LCD clock
In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! :D Looking at it was always a bit annoying.
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Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins
List of all the plugins I use in PyCharm and Idea.
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ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video
Step 1) Download the video from Youtube using JDownloader . The best one was the original Japanese upload, The Game Awards 2014 å‡ºå±•æ˜ åƒ ã‚¼ãƒ«ãƒ€ã®ä¼èª¬ 最新作 , which is 720p. I saved this file as zelda_720p.mp4.
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How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)
Writing a book is a time consuming process, and if you’re going to dedicate a year, or more, of your life to it, it makes sense to pick the best tool for the job. If you’re technically inclined – and if you use Emacs – then the choice is obvious.
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Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide
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