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Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)
A set of useful tools for cultivating a culture of writing, namely the RFC, the Decision Record and Decision Log, and the Pre-mortem/Prospective and Post-mortem/Retrospective
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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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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Essential elements of good documentation
A comprehensive guide on how to write good documentation for your code and libraries
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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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Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
I'm somehow interested in audio production. But not it more my pet hobby, nothing that would generate decent income. This means I usually do...
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Spicing unix shell scripts
Discover various UNIX / Linux scripting tools that add GUI widgets, network sockets and add some spice to your UNIX bash shell scripts.
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Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust
Nikolai Vazquez is a software engineer, designer, and musician.
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How to Write a Technical Book
Are you particularly well versed in a field? Why not write a book? I've summarized the 4 main steps to writing and publishing your first technical book.
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Automating heating with Home Assistant
I’ve been on a mission to use Home Assistant to optimize my home heating, with the dual goals of reducing gas usage and increasing comfort. It’s worked out…
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I started a “dirt notebook”
I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...
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GIMP 2.8: Preview
I wrote the other day about me upgrading my system in order to be able to run the Preview Release of GIMP 2.8 , I have it up and working, r...
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The world is full of wasted motion
The default state of the world is that things are inefficient, that 20% of the effort put in results in 80% of the output. This is a fundamental part of how I see the world, and this post outlines how I have internalised this idea, and how to pursue the clever hacks that can make things better
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Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting - Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than 'good old telnet'
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Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care
I never questioned why code should be highlighted until I tried to make my own theme.
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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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GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep
That's likely all you need to do to install and make default GNU grep, which on my machine is a ~10x speedup over the grep that ships with Mac OS.
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Notes on 416 Days of Treadmill Desk Usage
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
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Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command
Search your bash or zsh history incrementally with Control-R, step back with repeated presses, go forward with Control-S, and tune HISTFILE and HISTSIZE.
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Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master
A friend of mine asked me for some links/suggestions for learning Emacs . While, I was naturally excited that another soul was interested ...
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Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"
A project I started before Christmas (i.e. about a month ago) is now production ready.
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Zig's new CLI progress bar explained
Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results.
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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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