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My favorite principle for code quality
The Embedded Design principle, Jimmy Koppel's favorite principle for code quality, shown via caching code that looks fine but invites bugs.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 181 posts.
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)
Master the Feynman Technique: Nobel laureate's 4-step learning method to understand anything deeply through teaching, simplification, and systematic review.
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Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker
Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker : Effectively speaking, I've always been a Vim user. When I got my first shell account, I started with Vim (In the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages of `vi`, `vim` and `neovim`, I came of age somewhere in the late Jurassic): my
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Solving My Email Problem
Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a TODO list. Or at least my inbox is a TODO list and email is the protocol for putting stuff on it. Here’s the problem. It is a s**tty TODO list. Any one of you can put something on my TODO list. And I don’t want that.
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Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven
My experiences with Gradle and why I finally moved back to Maven
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SMT Solving on an iPhone
Why buy an expensive desktop computer when your iPhone is a faster SMT solver?
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Modern CMake short tutorial and best practice
The end of semester is here and, as I grade our students semestral works, I get to use CMakeLists of dubious quality. After seeing the same errors repeat over and over again, I decided to write a short tutorial towards writing simple CMakeLists.
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Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016)
As seen on Hackaday! There’s always some electronics topic that I end up focusing all my efforts on (at least for a certain time), and that topic is now eMMC NAND Flash memory. Overview eMMC …
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Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light
I sit next to a window at work. On sunny days it’s easier to see a light editor theme, and when the sky is dark, a dark theme is easier on my eyes. So I decided to try to have my MacBook automatically switch the Emacs theme based on readings from the ambient light sensor.
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Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended
TL;DR: Many badges were broken since they were using the shuttered pypip.in site. I wrote a bot that could fix these and automatically submit pull requests with the changes. And then I had my GitHub account suspended. Do not make automatic unsolicited pull requests. Disclaimer This post discusses the design...
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Creating a bash completion script
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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Sl: a mirror version of ls
Ever heard of the Steam Locomotive ? It is supposed to cure your bad habit of mistyping [ ls ] by running an ASCII rendition of a steam locomotive through your terminal.
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
Create, share, and play with small Electron experiments.
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Something about functions in Bash (2017)
Here's something you didn't know about bash functions. Usually when you write a function you do this: function name () { ... } Right? I know you do, because that's how everyone writes functions. Well, here's the thing. In bash { ... } doesn't mean "function's body" or "function's scope" as in JavaScript or C. It's...
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Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016)
Minimodem can play and capture audio modem tones in real-time via the system audio device, or in batched mode via audio files.
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On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git
This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. It isn't that git is so complicated that you need a large document to take care of your particular problem, it is more that the set of things that you might have done is so large that different…
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Designing an email-only Slack interface
On the design of Stop Slacking , which lets you interact via email with the poor souls trapped in the endless, no-agenda meeting that is Slack.
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Mill: Better Scala Builds
Mill is a new build tool for Scala: it compiles your Scala code, packages it, runs it, and caches things to avoid doing unnecessary work. Mill aims to be better than Scala's venerable old SBT build tool , learning from it's mistakes and building upon ideas from functional programming to come up with a build tool that…
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Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
tl;dr I can do all of my programming and system admin work with an iPad Pro because I work on remote servers over ssh, and I prefer using the Unix/Linux command line.
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