721
On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
A blog about software craft and quality
Topics /
Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
722
Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and Spotify is making that possible.
723
Text editing hates you too (2019)
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You , published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
724
It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
I’m happy to announce the official release of the Light Table Playground ! You can find instructions for getting it here: http://app.kodowa.com/playground
725
Jujutsu for busy devs
Anubis could not load its JavaScript. The server may be overloaded. Please reload the page to try again.
726
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
July 2009 One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional…
727
728
Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
The first part of what I hope to be an ongoing series about repatriating and owning my own data and tech. In this post, I describe how I integrated my own self-
729
Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
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…
730
731
4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
For the past couple years, I have transported my 'working set' of video and project data to and from work on an external Thunderbolt NVMe SSD. But it's always been slow when I do the sync. In a typical day, I may generate a new project folder with 500-1000 individual files, and dozens of them may be 1-10 GB in size…
732
How I use Tailscale
I’ve been using Tailscale for around four years to connect my disparate devices, servers and apps together. I wanted to talk a bit about how I use it, some cool features you might not know about, and some stumbling blocks I encountered.
733
I Like Makefiles
Fancy new build tools come and go, but I think I will stick with using makefiles to orchestrate everyday tasks in my projects.
734
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family’s old home videos.
735
Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
Life Hack: The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic A year ago, I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout. I’ve since had zero pain in my hands …
736
D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
Story of how I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
737
738
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
739
What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
Learn what's new in Emacs 28.1
740
Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
741
Understanding the Git Workflow
If you don't understand the motivation behind Git's design, you're in for a world of hurt. With enough flags you can force Git to act the way you think it should instead of the way it wants to. But that's like using a screwdriver like a
742
Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
743
Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY
744
I see a future in jj
In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I…
745
Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
git branches: intuition & reality
746
Excel is pretty dang cool
It's like discovering a treasure chest under my kitchen sink
747
Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.
748
Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep , that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for Linux, Mac and Windows) and written in Rust .
749
Linux utils that you might not know
I’ve used Linux as my primary operating system for well over ten years, yet I still stumble upon things that are completely unknown to me. For example...
750
A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.