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Ask anyone who's really into cooking and they'll tell you how important it is to have a kitchen that's arranged just right. To someone who rarely cooks, a kitchen is probably just a place to store a few pots and a toaster, and the placement of such stuff doesn't matter much: canned soup and microwave dinners are…
['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];
The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.
Generate calendar entries from an image using Anthropic Claude 3.5. Convert lesson dates in an image to a calendar ICS file
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive ...
The new version 5 of SubEthaEdit , the Apple Design Award winning text editor for macOS, is now available free of charge in the App Store and as direct download . The complete source code with history going back 15 years is also available under the MIT License.
Update 12/10/21, 10:15 UTC: I never imagined this post would reach the front page on Hacker News and gather so much support. Thank you all…
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but…
For a long time I have been a fan of minimalism in my physical life: have few physical possessions, and try to do more with less. Four years ago, I wrote this blog post describing what I had in the 40-liter backpack that I travel around with.
I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold.
When a datacenter fire threatened 142 of my servers, my backup strategy had them back online in hours. This post shares my personal philosophy on creating a resilient system, focusing on the crucial planning that must happen before you write a single script.
Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore our family’s impending 5,000 mile road trip around the USA
Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats.
A guide to modern Python tooling with a focus on simplicity and minimalism.
In 2017, I will graduate from Ghent University. This means starting a professional career, either in academia or in industry. One of the first things that came …
Most PDF files do not look readable in a text editor. Compression, encryption, and embedded images are largely to blame. After removing these three components, one can more easily see that PDF is a human-readable document description language.
[Guillermo Rauch](https://x.com/rauchg) [tweeted](https://x.com/rauchg/status/807626710350839808) this a while back. Let's take a dive into what it means.
I’ve spent the past four months in Shenzhen, China, modifying an iPhone 7 to add a fully functional headphone jack. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time anyone has done anything like this.
We have to start with a picture. Or hey, just go download it and see for yourself.
During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there as my job doesn't require me to be physically in Paris, I was working with teams in India and San Francisco. I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a …
As an exercise, after finishing this article do the whole exercise again, but make a change to both origin/master and master and then do the fetch and merge to see what happens when a fast-forward is not possible.
