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Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera
tl;dr: There are many ways to capture time-lapse videos. But this one is cheap, completely wireless, and mine. If you want to skip the post and go straight for the glory, grab a copy of my Time-lapse app for the Raspberry Pi. Time-lapses transform subtle, slow processes into something beautiful, and often make us…
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TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
Oops, I think I just turned the legendary personal wiki system into an offline-first, installable, encrypted, synchronized Progressive Web App
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A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity
Throughout my career, though I’ve managed to be productive in aggregate, I’ve always sought to be more consistent in my productivity. How productive I am at a given moment seems driven …
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Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script
สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกง่าย ด้วยการเล่นผ่านโทรศัพท์มือถือสามารถเล่นได้ทุกที่ทุกเวลาตลอด 24 ชั่วโมง ทำให้ได้รับความนิยมอย่างแพร่หลายเหตุปัจจุบัน
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Command Line Accounting With Ledger and Reckon
I’ve been using ledger, combined with a custom Ruby gem called reckon, to balance my small business’s accounts for the last few years. The command line, Bayesian statistics, and Double Entry Accounting! What could be better? Here’s how I do it.
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Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors
Thoughts on software engineering and engineering management
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Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
Tips anyone can use to level up their web automation and web scraping game
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Making my local LLM voice assistant faster and more scalable with RAG
If you read my previous blog post, you probably already know that I like my smart home open-source and very local, and that certainly includes any voice assistant I may have. If you watched the video demo, you have probably also found out that it’s… slow. Trust me, I did too. Prefix caching helps, but it feels like…
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I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I've been distro-hopping for probably twenty years. Every time I install Linux I feel a small swell of optimism, like this time it'll stick. Linux never sticks with me.
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Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
Blake Mealey's digital garden.
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Surviving the New MacBook Pro
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
The code for this post is at my Github repository: github.com/arxanas/detect-recruiter-spam. However, I have not included my pre-trained model, since it cont...
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Emacs as Email Client
Email with mu4e and offlineimap
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Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
Compare real-world RAM consumption of AppImage and Flatpak packages on low-memory Linux hardware. See how each format handles dependencies and…
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
img {border-style: groove; border-width: 1px;} I love Autohotkey so much that it keeps me on Windows. It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. Here’s a shortcut that opens my current browser tab in the Wayback Machine: #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") >!^s:: { Keywait("RControl") Keywait("RAlt")…
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Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation
“Markdown” is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...
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High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks
unless you click View > Show All Devices, quit Disk Utility, then relaunch it (thanks to xenadu02 for the workaround !)
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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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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim
This article will focus on discussing why the ancient text editor 'ed' works the way it does.
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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?
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