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Rep and Ren: A new approach to CLI find, replace, and renaming
This post is about two new command-line utilities: rep and ren. Both are available on GitHub.
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Blank turns your TV screen black until you press any button on a remote
I’m happy to announce the release of a new tvOS app called Blank. It turns your screen black and keeps it that way until you press any button on a remote. Seriously, that’s all it does. Here’s the screen you see when you launch the app for the first time: That second paragraph hints at […]
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How to add documentation to your product life cycle
An evaluation of different processes used to create documentation, and their advantages and disadvantages for the organization, the customer, and the writer.
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The Perfect Laptop
Personal preference is an interesting thing. People can have a particular preference for something until they are able to experience something else. As we gain experience, our personal preference gets more finely tuned.
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Using Emacs as $EDITOR
A post on how I configure ZSH and Emacs in order to use the latter as $EDITOR.
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Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes
<p> Running live demos can be stressful. You know what you want to say and show. You prepare the CLI commands you want to run to best showcase what you...
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Screenshots as the Universal API
With advancements in machine learning, screenshots are quickly becoming a universal data format. It's now (relatively) easy to extract meaning (image-to-text), layout information (object recognition), text (optical ch...
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Making OKRs more playful using hill charts
OKRs for Managers and C-Level? Great! But have you ever asked your teams? In this post I am sharing how I make OKRs less dry and more enjoyable for the teams I manage.
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Thoughts on Video Editing (2022)
I’ve been thinking about editing for the last 5 years. Not just thinking, also editing. Trying out what works. You may have noticed different editing styles in the 65 videos I have posted to …
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Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with it.
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AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll
A couple of days ago I was giving a little update to my website and I needed a wayto create and inject custom HTML into some of my posts.
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Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
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Emacs and shellcheck
Julia Evans had a great talk called Making Hard Things Easy . One of the takeaways for me was that I should be using tools for parts of a ...
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An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python stdlib
Because life doesn't have to be hard all the time
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Docs Deserve More Respect
A plea for more respect for documentation and technical writing in the software development industry.
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I'm moving my projects off GitHub
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense [1] . I'm not a major open-source maintainer or…
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Makefiles for web work
A set of recipes for using Makefiles for web development.
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Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
tl;dr: Use an old-fashioned USB 2.0 flash drive, format it FAT32, download the firmware, make sure it's named correctly, and use the motherboard's 'BIOS Flashback' option after powering off the computer. This past week, I devoted far too much time to the task of updating my brand new motherboard's BIOS. It started…
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Combine GPTs with private knowledge for actually useful AIs
Custom GPTs by OpenAI are practically free new hires. But as as new hires go, most are not very useful.
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Let's create a Python Debugger together
An article series where I show you how to write a fully functional Python debugger.
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I don't understand terminals, shells and SSH
Confession time: I don't fully understand how terminals, shells and SSH really work (and my guess is you don't either). And I don't mean the cryptography behind SSH. I mean how SSH and the terminal — and the shell for that matter — interact with one another.