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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 181 posts.
Jupyter presents a unique programming style where the programmer can change her code while it's running, reducing the cost of mistakes and improving the interactivity of the programming process. I discuss the benefits and limitations of this approach along with the related work.
Datasette 0.22 is out with the most significant new feature I’ve added since the initial release: faceted browse. Datasette lets you deploy an instant web UI and JSON API for …
I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you…
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter which makes the life of developers easier by automatically formatting your javascript files for you. This post should help you understand everything you need to know about using prettier in a project.
Protocol is a command-line tool to display ASCII RFC-like protocol header diagrams for both existing network protocols or user-defined ones (using a very simple syntax). Protocol is written in Python and it's open-source software.
Great to create and know the algorithm of QR code... very information! Thanx Bala
A Clojure formatting style good enough to be a default standard
On this page I present a robust, custom build system for a software project written in C, in less than 500 lines of Python code. I think it is about as minimal as a practical dependency-tracking build system can get. Although it adds to the code that must be maintained as part of the project, I think that having a…
I often don't blog about this kind of stuff. Yesterday I friend of mine showed me this awesome project called cool-retro-term . When yo...
I explain how Compiler Explorer runs on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure
What does it mean to add versioning to the go command? The overview post gave a preview, but the followup posts focused mainly on underlying details: the import compatibility rule , minimal version selection , and defining go modules . With those better understood, this post examines the details of how versioning…
Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc.
Whenever there is a discussion online about the tools to build software, there is always That One Person that shows up and claims that all b...
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
Update: This post received quite a lot of healthy discussion on Hacker News. You can follow that conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119570
Updated version If you haven’t read My Comparison Between Anki and SuperMemo, please do so. It’s not a prerequisite but if you do, you will understand the following content better.
Possibly not as horrible as I'd thought
This is the fifth post in my series on finding an alternative to Mac OS X. A bit over a year ago I wrote about my search for an alternative to Mac OS and switch to Linux. In this post I reflect on how that year went and detail some further adventures into Mac OS alternatives.
Aftermath of how I moved stars to a great project from an simple project with undeserved stars
Downloadable acrylic case designs for the Raspberry Pi Zero+Stackable USB Hub, Orange Pi Lite & Marvell ESPRESSObin.
