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A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
Yes, probably.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 404 posts.
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Try Switching to Kagi
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
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How I code with AI on a budget/free
A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
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How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
I work from home everyday, I am susceptible to eye strain, eye pain, and dizziness. Having a working environment that’s as easy on my eyes as possible is of critical importance. I'd like to share what I've learned over the years in hopes that it can be helpful to you if you work from home, and like many, have…
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Self-hosting my photos with Immich
For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set…
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You already have a Git server
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it:
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Fun with uv and PEP 723
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
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XMLUI
In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on …
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My Self-Hosting Setup
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim
There's no reason I should exit vim just to watch a video
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I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.
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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
A collection of 150+ nifty tips and tricks for macOS, for both system features like the Dock, Spotlight, and Mission Control and built-in apps like Safari, Mail, and Photos.
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
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No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Microsoft is doing everything in its power to alienate users. When it's not enshittification, it's user hostility. You can't even dismiss forced reminders.
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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
This is the story of our three year long journey to turn a fleet of laptops into what can only be described as the world's most unhinged video wall.
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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
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The future of large files in Git is Git
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges.
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
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How I use my terminal
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2: 𝄢 unzip pocket.zip && xsv headers part_000000.csv 1 title 2…
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How I use every Claude Code feature
A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
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Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
The entire book revolves around the "nine rules." After the typical introduction and list of the rules, there's one chapter for each rule. Each of these chapters describes the rule, explains why it's a rule, and includes several "sub-rules" that explain how to apply the rule. Most importantly, there are lots of "war…
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I’m Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
Dumping a SQLite database to a text file can make it much smaller, which means you can download it faster.
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Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
uv run - install, activate, and run in one command…