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Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
With Google Reader’s impending shutdown, lots of new feed-sync services and self-hostable projects will be popping up.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 156 posts.
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Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
I was surprised not to find an introduction to Emacs Lisp on learnxinyminutes.com, so I created one, which is now maintained there. Comments and feedback are we...
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Monocle
I've been working on a project called Monocle [http://monocle.io] these past few weeks, and it's time to show it to the world. Monocle is an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content with a focus on technology, startups and frankly anything
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Storage for Photographers
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those photo RAWs filling up the tiny-compared-to-spinning-platters SSD on their primary machine.
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Predicting Google Product Shutdowns
Analyzing predictors of Google abandoning products; predicting future shutdowns
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How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”
EDIT: The original article author, Rob Ousbey, has popped up on various social media sites to remind everyone to use this tool/knowledge responsibly. I agree. Please be responsible.
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How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
Experience: Capita Technology · Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Location: Australia · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Mitch Ribar’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are ...
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How to Write an Opening Sentence
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Switching from Gmail to FastMail
I switched from Gmail to FastMail a few months ago (in early 2013) and I’ve been meaning to write a post about how I did it.
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Useful Unix commands for data science
The command line tools that ship with any Unix-like system are extremely handy for many data tasks. Here are some of the ones that I've found most useful.
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A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites
I noticed yesterday that some C#, JavaScript and CSS files I had sitting in ...
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Spaced repetition for study and learning
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
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Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik
This is a clone post from (Because people on Hackernews “DDOS’ed” the original content :-)) A few days ago I saw this link on Hacker News: Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google…
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Opt Out of Klout Now
Sites like Klout and Kred are perfect examples of social media frippery. A vaguely plausible "score" that you can use to justify your "investment" in tweeting all day long. When they're used as a silly little badge, or an informal competition with friends, they're a (mostly) harmless way of gamification. Of continual…
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How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
Here’s version 2 (September 2013). You can print this at 16.5″x10.75″ at 300dpi. Have an ordinary printer? Check out PosteRazor !
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Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
My colleague Martin Fowler recently posted a Bliki entry about InternalReprogrammability , lamenting the diminishing mind share of tools that allow extremely fine grained customizability, such as Emacs and Smalltalk. I agree whole heartedly with his sentiment; I covered some of the same ground in my Abstraction…
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Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
I like to take long running notes, jotting down an idea here and there when one pops up. I never know which devices I will have with me, so I like to have these notes synced across all of them.
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SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance of this system was named StrongBox and is being run by The New Yorker. To further add to the naming confusion, Aaron Swartz called the system DeadDrop…
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The Pull Request Hack
After writing about Open Source And Responsibility , I’d like to share a small collaboration hack I came up with last year. Here it is:
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Wounded QR Codes
How do QR codes work? How much is it possible to distort one and still have it readable?
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Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
Would you like to receive instant email alerts as soon as your website goes down or is inaccessible to users?