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Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus
Org-mode is a structured editor that combines the best features of a powerful outliner and a powerful editor in one package. I’ve been fooling with org-mode a lot lately, digging into capabil…
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
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How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy
How to use the python web scraping framework Scrapy to crawl indeed.com. Learn data engineering strategies for getting actionable insights from public information.
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Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
You can make your own website. This guide can help anyone make a website with HTML and CSS. You can make a personal site, link tree, hobby site, digital garden, fansite, or any other website you want. It's fun, and easy enough for a 12-year-old.
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Exploring EXIF
Exploratory interfaces for navigating photos
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About AI Evals
A guide to AI and LLM evals for engineers and product managers. Learn how to test AI systems, analyze failures, and improve retrieval, agents, and AI products.
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Towards trust in Emacs
A post by Eshel Yaron introducing the Emacs Trust Manager
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More Molly Guards
A blog about software craft and quality
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.gitignore Everything by Default
An opposite view on .gitignore files.
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If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice
I assumed this was probably due to some shutdown corruption (though I rarely hit those in OS X). It just wouldn’t come back up and showed me some font error
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Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.
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Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows
I've been using this Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro for the last few weeks, and lemme tell ...
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I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
I set all of Vim's configuration options, and I still feel far from mastery. But I did learn that it used to be called Vi IMitation...
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A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
Last summer I got into cycling. I've long been a standing desk-er, and going out for long zone 2 rides and wondering what to think about made me wonder: could I work at a desk while I cycle?
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Spaced Repetition is Awesome
I've recently become motivated to learn Portuguese. Mulheres bonitas sao muito motivado. It's not the first time this has happened to me - in the past I've attempted to learn Spanish, Farsi and Konkani. But it is the first time I've made significant progress and it's the first time that I …
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The Self-Cancelling Subscription
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
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How I went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day
When I started writing The Spirit War (Eli novel #4), I had a bit of a problem. I had a brand new baby and my life (like every new mother'...
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I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches
The keyboard is done! This is basically the result of what I've been working on for the past 2 months, which has involved 3 iterations of testing machines, over 100 printed switches, and now finally a keyboard that I can type on. Unfortunately it is not a very good keyboard, but you can't win them all.
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How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition (2016)
Using spaced repetition in conjunction with other study techniques can help you memorize information much, much more quickly. Here's how to do it.
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My other email client is a daemon
I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
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Rediscovering CardDAV
I can no longer sync iOS’ Contacts with my macOS Catalina’s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I’ve iCloud configured for Contact...
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iDOS 2 will be gone soon
Recently I tried to submit an iDOS update with a few bug fixes, but then got a notification from Apple Review Team, and my heart dropped cold.