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Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink
A dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 404 posts.
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Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.)
Four years after my post on doing network captures on macOS with Process ID, Wireshark 4.6.0 has been released which includes support for parsing this…
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Archiving Git branches as tags
I have a spicy git alias that allows me to "archive" old git branches by converting them to tags, making them less visible across git tooling. # ~/.gitconfig…
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Absolute Zero Reasoner
Current reasoning models trained with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) often rely on manually curated datasets, raising scalability concerns and potentially limiting future AI growth beyond human-defined tasks. To address this, we propose the Absolute Zero paradigm, where a single model…
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Knowledge Management in the Age of AI
My personal website
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Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.
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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.
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Delete tests
We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from holistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to…
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Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
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Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
Jujutsu worktrees are very convenient! In git, worktrees are an old concept. The idea is that you can effectively work on your project in 2 different folders …
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Be Careful with Obsidian
Just a few personal thoughts. Notes to myself, to people who use and love this app everyday.
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Pocket Casts, you altered the deal, so I will alter your app
After all you made your apps open source, so I can remove your ads.
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Tools for 2025
TLDR; I really wish these tools gain more traction:
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Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Postcard is now open source
Self-host a personal website + newsletter
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Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.
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The WinRAR approach
The WinRAR Approach: a small change in how I distribute content to keep the content free, sustainable, & ad-free.
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I hacked my clock to control my focus
I often get distracted. I obviously don’t like it. So I decided to turn my computer’s clock into a constant reminder to help me focus. Implementation This hack requires: Ubuntu with GNOME desktop environment The Panel Date Format extension A simple bash script 1. Install the Panel Date Format extension # If you don't…
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Typst's Math Mode Problem
Typst's math mode has a strange precedence problem that most people using it will run into at some point.
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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac
I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept asking myself ...
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Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
E ven before I started pressing buttons for a living I was always a pretty heavy computer user. When I was about 18 I started experiencing symptoms of RSI. At around the same time I learnt of the Dvorak keyboard layout, and so I switched, hoping it would solve my problems. It did, at least at the time, and so for the…
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Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article
About a week ago, I shared a small blog article on Hacker News.
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Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live
The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live and Work
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Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting
A few years ago I blogged about custom tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting in emacs . I started out with highlighting certain keywords in...
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Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)
Learn the command line, version control, build systems, and correctness in NEU’s CS 4973: ISDT.
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Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...
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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
I was recently thinking about the huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of 52 cards and wondered if it would be possible to store arbitrary data.
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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.
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Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera
Why buy a bespoke camera when you can do something much harder instead?