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How to Think
Read this article to discover how chess is used to teach people how to think. "It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at."
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
For today I only have a very short tip – or maybe let’s call it an anecdote. (This is not because I didn’t have time for writing last week. Quite the opposite – I’ve been working very hard on one of the projects I mentioned in my 2023 planning post . I think I’ll be able to share some details next week.)
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Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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A page with no code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Effectively Using Matplotlib
Matplotlib is a valuable but misunderstood foundation of the python data science stack.
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Scrape like the big boys
What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
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A new Light Table experience
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
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Why LSP?
LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There's a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:
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Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a…
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Interesting commands for the Linux shell
List of 30 interesting commands and tips for the Linux shell that I have collected over the years.
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A Hacker’s Guide to Git
A Hacker’s Guide to Git is now available as an e-book. You can purchase it on Leanpub. Introduction Git is currently the most widely used version control system in the world, mostly thanks to GitHub. By that measure, I’d argue that it’s a...
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So you wanna de-bog yourself
What I found in the mire
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Convert Linux to Windows
Thesis: We should create a distro of Linux that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine.
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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
Preamble# The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate…
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Never Missing the Train Again
How I built a transit dashboard with Rust, Skia, and an old Kindle
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A system to help you remember more of what you read
Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had…
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I only use Google Sheets
To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess wha...
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My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed several times, but is always converging on a better music listening experience.
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Gzip + poetry = awesome
Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
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How Did Vim Become So Popular?
Short walk through Vim's origins and why is Vim so popular today
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Take more screenshots (2022)
If you do any sort of creative digital work, screenshots and screen recordings are a great way to remember it.
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Mjolnir
As much as I loved the beautiful machine , the passive cooling and form factor of the DB4 chassis had limitations. The best GPU I could fit in (and cool down), a 1050 Ti, barely managed to run Diablo 2 Resurrected. Playing could become unpleasant at 30fps in busy levels!
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Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)
Today I noticed via a tweet by @mitsuhiko that Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed trace information like what you’d get from JaegerU...
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Cool but obscure X11 tools
Cool, but obscure X11 tools.
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Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible
Let’s say you have a brand-new Windows laptop and you’re just oh, so happy. You’re pretty sure the NSA did not interdict it during shipment , and thus that it comes only with the flaky goatware Microsoft, Lenovo, and any number of Lenovo’s business partners intended for it to have. Now all you need is an SSH client so…