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The Problem with Gradle
Or: How to Remain Sane when Approaching Gradle (with apologies to Hans Dockter).
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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My Favorite One Liners
My favorite Linux command-line one-liners: turn shell output into an image, find your biggest directories, list your most-used commands, serve files over HTTP.
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Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme
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Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
I was surprised not to find an introduction to Emacs Lisp on learnxinyminutes.com, so I created one, which is now maintained there. Comments and feedback are we...
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Vim tricks
I’ve been using Vim for eight years and am still discovering new things. This is usually seen as a Good Thing About Vim. In my head, though, it’s a failing of discoverability: I keep discovering new things because Vim makes it so hard to know what’s available. While people often talk about the beauty of modal editing…
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What is in that .git directory?
Well, I think most of you reading this blog use git more or less on a daily basis, but have you ever looked into what is in the .git folder that git creates? Let's explore it together and understand what is going on in there.
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How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living in a small apartment. At the time, my setup was modest: I …
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Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some
Published: 10-07-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire…
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How to write a Git commit message (2014)
Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.
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No script is too simple
I write very short scripts, sometimes for single-line commands. Here's why you should do it too.
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Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
The Algolia-powered Hacker News API returns nested comment threads that look like this: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108
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Bpftrace for Linux 2018
bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018: the bpftrace front-end
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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
Software Engineer
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Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
Writing should be a pleasant experience. With the right tools, it can be. LaTeX is powerful but cumbersome to use. With Markdown, we can focus on our writing, and worry about the presentation later. Pandoc can take care of the presentation for us, so the only thing left to do is start.
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The best browser bookmarking system is files
(Thanks for getting this on front page of HackerNews!) Along the years I have tested various...
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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
A checklist for configuring Mozilla Firefox for a more private browsing experience.
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Better Bash History (2012)
By default, the Bash shell keeps the history of your most recent session in the .bash_history file, and the commands you’ve issued in your current session are also available with a history call. These defaults are useful for keeping track of what you’ve been up to in the shell on any given machine, but with disks much…
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Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone's Lidar sensor
This technical guide details how you can create your own aerial imagery and 3D models of streets with the built in iPhone LiDAR sensor and open source tools in the OpenDroneMap package.
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Git Rebase for the Terrified
As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or…
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Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog
There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious: So… Hi, I’m the guy using Kubernetes for my blog and small…
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Building a Personal AI Factory
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
My stack for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News.
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Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories