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Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
git purr, git meowge, and git puss! My doodling on basic git commands, and difference between merge and rebase with cats!
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant
With the benefit of hindsight, this was a naïve question: > Alright clever IoT folks, I've got two of these garage door openers, what do you reckon the best way of connecting them with Apple HomeKit is? https://t.co/i0RmjSMkkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2020 [https://twitter.com/
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Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.
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Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!
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Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
This website is designed to help you understand some basic git concepts visually. This is my first attempt at using both SVG and D3. I hope it is helpful to you.
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Monocle
I've been working on a project called Monocle [http://monocle.io] these past few weeks, and it's time to show it to the world. Monocle is an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content with a focus on technology, startups and frankly anything
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I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
My name is Erik, and I am a Dutch software developer. I also like to write fiction. One could say I spend a lot of time trying to capture the world in plain text. Source code for the small part of it that can be expressed in logical terms, stories for everything else.
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Parallel processing with Unix tools
Tools for multi-processing on unix
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Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how when I’ve worked on any kind of distributed system, including systems as simple as a web app with frontend and backend code, probably upwards of 80% of my time is spent on things I wouldn’t need to do if it weren’t distributed. I came up with the following description…
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Minify Your SVGs
How I optimize SVGs for this blog and why you probably should, too.
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Can you slim macOS down?
In a quest to reduce the number of processes running in macOS Tahoe, consider the example of Time Machine backups, which can easily be replaced by 3rd party alternatives.
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How I use AI (Oct 2026)
I document how I use AI, one year after my first writeup. Everything's completely different.
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My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are great tools to make the lives of developers easier.
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Fine, I'll build my own text editor
The one where I build my own text editor (until I get bored).
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A beginner's guide to split keyboards
Come to the dark side, we have keyboard shaped cookies.
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Switching to the Mutt Email Client
Note: The way I manage my email wouldn’t really work for most people, so don’t read this as a recommendation. This is just a discussion of how I prefer to use email.
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Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)
Regular readers would probably know that I have a love of batteries, and their associated test equipment. Maybe it was the fact that they were expensive, but pervasive, and my enjoyment as a child …
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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive. But I think it's a dead end.
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Storage for Photographers
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those photo RAWs filling up the tiny-compared-to-spinning-platters SSD on their primary machine.
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Composing better emails
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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Organizing multiple Git identities
Here's a quick tip on how to manage multiple Git identities (e.g. personal, work, client1, client2).
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25+ years of personal knowledge management
In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years
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Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
As DebConf22 was coming to an end, in Kosovo, talking with Eeveelweezel they invited me to prepare a talk to give for the Chicago Python User Group . I replied that I’m not really that much of a Python guy… But would think about a topic. Two years passed. I meet Eeveelweezel again for DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea…
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A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming
“Thanks” to the pandemic, I’ve spent much more time figuring out how to deal with video and live streaming than I ever thought I would. It’s turned out to be a surprisingly rewarding experience. In no particular order, here are some things I’ve learned along the way.
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Using a list to manage executive function
I use a fairly well-developed todo list system to manage my workload during the day. Some of the details are unusual, so I thought it would be worth sharing.
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Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python
How the JPEG format works: file headers and markers, Huffman coding, quantization, zigzag and the DCT, explained by writing a JPEG decoder in Python.
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What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?
Is a process named triald stealing lots of CPU? Or maybe ~/Library/Trial is huge, or filling your backups? Maybe it’s all just one of Apple’s Experiments.
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