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Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
Reproducible builds configured in Lua
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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Plain text journaling in Vim
oppiliappan's μsings
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Making a Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
I wasn't entirely satisfied with the aluminum cube , so after thinking about the design for a while, I decided to make another one out of stainless steel. Just for fun, I thought I would make all the pieces using only manual machines. How hard could it be?
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Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes
Does this sound familar? You make a change to a library to optimize its performance or clean up technical debt or fix a bug, only to get a bug report: some very large, incomprehensibly opaque test is now failing. Or you add a new compiler optimization with a similar result. Now you have a major debugging job in an…
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Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
One of the items on my todo list was: And that’s because I’ve been looking for an easy way to do simple plots for yonks. When I did a post about movie ratings, I tried chart.el: It̵…
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PostgreSQL on the Command Line
Working efficiently with psql
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From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
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Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it
Typing shortcuts on international keyboard layouts is broken. Here is how developers can fix it.
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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
After years on a VPS, I'm moving my self-hosted services home and using the opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust setup.
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You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Speeding up my ZSH shell
Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ages, more like...
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A simple habit that saves my evenings
As a software engineer, I often work on big tasks that require hours of continuous and focused work. However, we have plenty of meetings, colleagues asking us something in Slack, and lunch breaks. Add a colleague who comes to you and calls you for a cup of coffee if you work from the office. And usually, we don’t…
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Building an Intelligent Emacs
This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers. Edit: Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).
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Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results
Now that we’ve covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it’ll just be a few…
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Archive your old projects
In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.
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A Short 100-Question Diligence Checklist
Plus! Bank Capital; Where Venture Funding is Squeezed; Free Shipping and Marginal Costs; Chinese Apps and Data Advantages; Many Funnels; Diff Jobs
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Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image
You have an image but you want a colour
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Writing Vim Plugins
A while ago I wrote a post about switching back to Vim . Since then I've written two plugins for Vim, one of which has been officially "released".
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How does Google Authenticator work?
This post is the first in a three-part series. The remaining two: How does Google Authenticator work? (Part 2) How does Google Authenticator work? (Part 3) When you’re accessing services over the WEB – let’s pick GMail as an example – a couple of things have to happen upfront: The server you’re connecting to (GMail in…
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Spaced Repetition
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
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Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind
Regex Lookahead and Lookbehind Tutorial. Explains the fine details of Lookahead and Lookbehind, including zero-width matches, overlapping matches and atomicity.
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Poor Man's Polaroid
How to build a poor man's Polaroid camera - a DIY instant camera project with parts, assembly and photos.
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How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”
EDIT: The original article author, Rob Ousbey, has popped up on various social media sites to remind everyone to use this tool/knowledge responsibly. I agree. Please be responsible.
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Modern Linux tools
Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics
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Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Step-by-step guide to turning your spare Mac into an always-on machine Claude Code can fully control - talk to it from your phone through the Claude app or from your main Mac over SSH.
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My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
Vim one-liners for fast text edits: count words, format JSON, delete blank lines, sum the numbers in a file, extract IP addresses, and open files in splits.
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Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
What do you think is gonna happen after I press tab when looking at this screenshot?