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How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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I hate screenshots of text
Why do people take screenshots of text?
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
Organic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics.
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Treemaps are awesome
An alternative to pprint for generically visualizing heterogeneous, hierarchical data
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Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
Create multiline git commits by using -m multiple times when using git commit
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ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
Ever since I tried ChatGPT and GPT-3, everything else feels painfully dumb and useless: Siri, Alexa, Google Home and all other “smart”…
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
Script for highlighting large videos in iCloud and a storage discrepancy
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Still Love Telnet
How to use the telnet command on the bash command line to debug network problems.
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A decade of dotfiles
Reflections on a decade of configuration files.
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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can …
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Git log – The good parts
If you’re managing a complex git codebase with multiple developers, then you may well be using a tool like GitHub or BitBucket to delve into the history and figure out branch and merge issues.
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Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps
Let's build a tiny browser-based office suite - a text editor, a speadsheet, a drawing app and a presentation maker - all in four lines of code.
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Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
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Unbundling Tools for Thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
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Making a font of my handwriting
Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal , not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with…
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How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly…
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Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess
uv's CLI feels surprisingly clunky compared to its peers like pnpm or Poetry.
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How to legally pirate every font
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I'd like to review your README
I'm afraid I'm not accepting new requests for review. I have reviewed all the ones I've received before 2022-03-24.
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The power of the RSS reader
With the decreasing use of RSS readers over the last few years, which will probably be accelerated by Google Reader’s shutdown in July, many are bidding good riddance to a medium that they never used well.
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