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Your test suite is trying to tell you something
A few weeks ago I started wondering about 'the test that occasionally and randomly breaks' in a large test suite at my job. The test, calle...
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A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers
Most people who know me well know I really like apples. I'm a big fan for a lot of reasons- taste, texture, the fact that they're a symbol of my favorite season, the sheer quantity of accessible food that can grow on a single tree, et cetera. Last year, I decided I wanted to make some homemade apple cider. I bought a…
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How To Build A Blog Readership
Discuss this post on Hacker News Despite the recent success of this blog over the past year (250,000 uniques, hundreds of new subscribers, republished in L
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Reading a VGA monitor's configuration data with I2C and a PocketBeagle
Have you ever wondered how your computer knows all the characteristics of your monitor— the supported resolutions, the model, and even the...
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Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
A couple of weeks ago, I started to work with Emacs, and I grow fonder of it every day. During a very short time period, it has become my go-to editor for nearly everything I do on my computer, including (but not limited to) planning my Todos (in org-mode, to be precise), setting up my agenda (org-mode again), taking…
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Curl Command Line Variables
If you are anything like me, you appreciate solving your every day simple tasks directly from the command line. Creating crafty single shot command lines or a small shell script to solve that special task you figured out you needed and makes your day go a little smoother. A fellow command line cowboy. Video…
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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60W equivalent LED bulb uses 9.5W and costs $13
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Write Posix Shell
write posix shell 2023-03-10 /\ {.-} ;_.-'\ { _.}_ \.-' / `, \ | / \ | ,/ [0] \|_/ what is shell? most people in tech are familiar with shell scripts. but shell is a language! ... shit. actually. wait, let me rephrase- most people _use_ shell. most people _avoid_ shell. but mostly most people _hate_ shell. but should…
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Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
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Emacs commands I got by with for years
As far as I know, the next meeting of EmacsATX, the Austin Emacs Meetup group , has a planned topic: Org mode . I was going to make a post about the common Org functions I use frequently, but I thought that I should start with common commands I used for generic Emacs when I started using it more than twenty years ago…
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My Contribution to Markdown
At long last revealed.
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Using Two ReMarkables
I'm a PhD student currently, which means that I spend most of my work life reading, or thinking about what I should read next. The timelines for my reading schedules range from what I need to read before a class or meeting next week, to what I ought to read for a paper or research trajectory that won't have any…
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Hyprland Crash Course
For the past week I have been configuring hyprland and using it as my daily driver. Coming from major Desktop Environments like KDE or Gnome, this was definitely quite challanging, specially when implementing features that we take it for granted on these DEs, like screen sharing or screenshot annotating.
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My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
JetBrains, the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, offer a range of powerful IDEs for all kinds of programming languages. I would like to share my favorite shortcuts for their IDEs.
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Unquantified
The only real valuable thing is intuition. – Albert Einstein A year ago I got rid of my scale, a simple act that turned out to be the catalyst for a year’s worth of quiet introspection and experimentation in removing quantification from my life. A year later I’m quantifiably more ignorant about myself than I have been…
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My Experience with Nix on OS X
Some time ago, I’ve moved this jekyll-based blog from GitHub Pages to a self-hosted NixOS server. A few weeks ago, I’ve also moved some parts of my local OS X environment from homebrew over to nix.
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I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
A place to play around with technology and make it easy and fun
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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
My life is not a math Olympiad
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Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
The top programs that have saved HN 100+ hours.
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A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)
Last summer I spent a lot of time with Typst (at that point v0.11) and Pandoc, working on a flexible and reusable workflow to typeset markdown-formatted articles to PDF. I designed a Pandoc template for Typst that would do nice things with layout and typography, and I posted about that here .