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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back
It’s been almost a year that Keivan Beigi shut down the AppGet project in response to shenanigans by the Windows App Model team. Microsoft…
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OTel isn’t going well
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it charitably, idiot-
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Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast, and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial and…
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Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
Repeatedly reaching for your mouse slows you down in the short term, and in the long term brings on health problems (RSI). To stay fast and healthy...
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Is this a good book for me, now?
I used to believe that every book has an objective value. And I used to believe that this value is fixed and universal.
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Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
I am now officially part of the "previous" generation of programmers. I know this because the new generation no longer has "vi vs. emacs" e...
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Make Tmux the OS
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity. During this time, I’ve continuously been monitoring the amount of work I’ve been getting done and have been experimenting with changes to make myself more productive. After only two months, I can now get significantly more work done than I did…
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How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
25 recent entries The horn of the Robert Smalls A difficulty in race-switching the Dukes of Hazzard On futile explanations Richard Blair Race-switching The Dukes of Hazzard Greek plural Erbaut Improved English-language month names I fix a thirty-year-old mistake Minced oaths? On the monobosom Partly about pie More…
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Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus
Scan your iPhone for NSO Group's Pegasus malware using Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) by Amnesty International
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Emacs' org-mode gets citation support
Introducing citations!
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I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
I love Wikipedia, but too often the articles are just not that easy to read. It’s not that my English isn’t good enough. My English good. There is Simple English Wikipedia, but it doesn’t cover as many topics and it’s not as thorough.
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Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
Airplane window seats are great! Not only are they more comfy and easier to take a nap in, but they also have the most quaint form of in-flight entertainment: The outside world!
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"Diff for HN": Update and highlight changes
Well well well, it's been quite a while! Nice to see you again. Sorry for the delay... I forgot my blog password, and I had to run some errands, the decade just got away from me. Anyway, the password was qwerty123 so let's get on with it...
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Using unix as your IDE
This series has been independently translated into Chinese , Russian , Turkish , and Korean , and formatted as an ebook .
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I Nearly Lost All of My Data
My home server completely shit the best recently and I thought I'd lost all my data.
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Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5
And other lessons learned from creating a popular open-source project (JSON5)
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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
So… Here we are again. Today, after a minor disaster with my Obsidian vault, I decided to restore from Time Machine, and… I realized that it had silently ...
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Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Getting things done in small increments (2022)
Many programmers subscribe to the belief that they need large blocks of uninterrupted time to get anything done. Paul Graham wrote about this in Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule :
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Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
Not long ago, I introduced acp.el, an Emacs lisp implementation of ACP (Agent Client Protocol), the agent protocol developed between Zed and Google fo...