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Email Is Async
Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,417 posts.
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Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
My personal website
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Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
The past few weeks I’ve been struggling with automating my accounting, invoicing and banking processes to the point I don’t really have to think about it anymore. Currently, a lot of my accounting-related processes are still way too manual for my liking. Being both a virtuous, lazy programmer and an entrepreneur I’d…
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Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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JSON on the Command Line with Jq
A series of how to examples on using jq, a command-line JSON processor
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No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How
Paraphrasing - When, Why, and How
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Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
BLUF : TinyChatEngine provides an off-line open-source large language model (LLM) that has been reduced in size compared to Llama2. This po...
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The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul
What worked for the long haul, what we cut out over time, and the boring tech that keeps the app alive
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Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
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SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog
Emacs provides four useful status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line), but each imposes different, inconsistent limits on multi-line layout, al...
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Write your passwords down
Here's my advice on password security based on the collected opinions of others: 1. Write them down and keep them in your wallet because you...
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Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
As all developers, I’ve been using git since the dawn of time, since its commands were an inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations, and it has remained this way until today. Needless to say, I just don’t get git. I never got it, even though I’ve read a bunch of stuff on how it represents things internally. I’ve…
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Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
A Single Monitor Manifesto
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Using Mypy in Production
At Spring, we maintain a large Python monorepo with complete Mypy coverage configured under Mypy’s strictest available settings. In short, that means every function signature is annotated and implicit Any conversions are disallowed.
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It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
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The IDE as a value
In my last post I talked about building a game in ClojureScript using a Component-Entity-System engine and I hinted that the ideas that underly that architecture inspired how we designed Light Table . The reason why stems from the architectural goals of the project:
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Emacs Is a Lispboard
What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal…
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Obsidian Note Codes
I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes.
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Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
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FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)
I used to run FreeBSD on older laptops – some more then a decade old – like my favorite ThinkPad W520 daily driver or ThinkPad X220 mobile companion. Today I will share with you my expe…
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
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