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Go Testing by Example [video]
I opened GopherCon Australia in early November with the talk “Go Testing By Example”. Being the first talk, there were some A/V issues, so I re-recorded it at home and have posted it here:
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
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Visualize Data Structures in VSCode
VSCode Debug Visualizer is a VSCode extension that allows you to visualize data structures in your editor
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The time has come to replace file systems
The time has come to replace file systems!
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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
Writing and work from Darrin Henein — a designer, game developer, and photographer from Toronto.
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Pinebook Pro – First Impressions and Setup Tips
The Pinebook Pro is a 14" laptop built for developers and Linux end-users. It weighs less than 3lbs, which, in my case, replaces a two times heavier
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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
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Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools
“JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.” ~ lots of very…
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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The Emacs Calculator (2009)
Did you know that Emacs comes with a calculator ? Woop-dee-doo! Call the presses! Wow, a whole calculator! Sounds a bit lame, right?
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Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
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Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
I'm thinking about a few things.
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Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac, with a collection of SD and HD media totaling around 2 TB today. To make that library accessible, I've always used iTunes and the iTunes Shared Library functionality that—while it still exists today—seems to be on life support, in kind of a "we still…
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Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year
Semi-Automated Clothes Tracker using NFC Buttons
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Logic Lab
The Logic Lab provides a selection of 12 logic gates that you can interconnect with patch cables to make a variety of different logic circuits, for experimenting with and learning about logic:
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How I Write Code: Pen and Paper
How I Write Code: Pen & Paper - Noteflakes
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)
Become a master of tmux in a few minutes
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Keeping a long shell history
Let's talk about shell history.
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Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.
Do you know at least one company that hosts their blog on Tumblr with a domain like blog.myawesomestartup.com, because doing that is easy and fast and there is no reason why you shouldn’t, at least …
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Little Snitch feature nobody knows about
Little Snitch by Objective Development is the first app that I install on a new Mac. In fact I just bought a new Mac, an M4 MacBook Pro with nano-texture display, and I installed Little Snitch via thumb drive even before connecting the Mac to the internet. While setting up my new Mac, which came with macOS 15.2…
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Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools.
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The PCAP – single file with 50 different protocols
For the last couple of years, I captured many different network and upper-layer protocols and published the pcaps along with some information and Wireshark screenshots on this blog . However, it always takes me some time to find the correct pcap when I am searching for a concrete protocol example . There are way too…
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Ydiff: Structural Comparison of Programs
(Click on the above picture to see it in action. See the end of the post for more demos) Motivation I have been imagining a world where programs are not represented as text, but as data structures.…