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Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a per...
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 145 posts.
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Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
I am now officially part of the "previous" generation of programmers. I know this because the new generation no longer has "vi vs. emacs" e...
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"Diff for HN": Update and highlight changes
Well well well, it's been quite a while! Nice to see you again. Sorry for the delay... I forgot my blog password, and I had to run some errands, the decade just got away from me. Anyway, the password was qwerty123 so let's get on with it...
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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SSH Tricks
Sorry for the lame title. I was thinking the other day, about how awesome SSH is, and how it’s probably one of the most crucial pieces of technology that I use every single day. Here’s a list of 10 things that I think are particularly awesome and perhaps a bit off the beaten path. Update: (2011-09-19) There are some…
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Aha Moments When Learning Git
Git is a fast, flexible but challenging distributed version control system. Before jumping in: Along with a book, tutorial and cheatsheet, here are the…
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Whatever works for you
In my earlier 20s when I knew everything, I was a much bigger evangelist for my technology choices. I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot. But I used to be much more annoying with pushing my choices onto others.
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Wolfram Alpha doesn't "get it"
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Vim & Python: Making yourself at home
You might look at Python code every day, but what is the lens through which you view code? It's your text editor. This article was written for Python Magazine and was first in a series on Python development environments. Here, we look at how Vim users can boost their productivity by having Vim tell you as much as…
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Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy
Whenever people talk about Facebook Ads (or even more generally "Can Facebook justify their $50bn valuation?") the conversation always tends to swing around to how poorly Facebook Ads perform. ...
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Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment
I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.