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Software Development at 800 Words per Minute
How I develop software at 800 words per minute with a screen reader
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How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser
Lynx is a text based browser. You think the people who browse without JavaScript are weird? Lynx doesn't even do images or CSS! It downloads HTML and renders it at blazing fast speed. If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web - Lynx will show you the meaning of haste. I use Lynx most…
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Hacking together a USB-C charger for a cheap Chromebook
The era of USB-C has come. The other day I threw all other cables into a box, and bought a set of USB-C to USB-C, Lightning, and microUSB cables. USB-C chargers around the house, USB-C PD power bank, even a nice small USB-C dock that works with the Nintendo Switch if the charger can do the right voltage. It's glorious.
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How Complex is my Code?
What code complexity can mean — from Big O notation and Cyclomatic Complexity to the surprising insights psycholinguistics can offer software developers.
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Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback
When casting from YouTube to a Chromecast, sometimes the audio playback will skip and stutter. We can use VLC and Unix pipes to address this problem.
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SMT Solving on an iPhone
Why buy an expensive desktop computer when your iPhone is a faster SMT solver?
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The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software
The process of extracting patterns from data is called data mining. It is recognized as an essential tool by modern business since it is ab...
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Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to Optimise my CV
Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to optimise my CV (resume)
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward
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A case for using punctuation in Slack
Or, a case for using punctuation in Slack
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Programming Inside a Container
I have a small collection of servers, laptops and desktops. My servers were purchased and configured at different times. By design, they have different hardware and software configurations. I have processors from AMD, Intel, Ampere and Rockchip. I have a wide range of Linux distributions, both old and new. I also…
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Hacking strength: Gaining muscle with least resistance
Then, after realizing I was too weak to lift my son and his wheelchair in and out of the car, I spent just over a year gaining strength and muscle.
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Magit Is Amazing
I was reading a post about Jujutsu version control system the other day and that just made me realize how awesome is Magit!
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What I learned from others' shell scripts
I am big fan of shell scripts and so love to learn interesting stuff from other's shell scripts. Recently I came across the authy-ssh scripts which eases two-factor authentication for ssh servers. When I walk through scripts, I learned lot of cool things that I am going to share it with you.
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DIY Mail
I have another post about half-written that I will finish up and publish soon, but in the mean time I have been thinking today about something that perennially comes up in certain orange-tinted online communities: running your own mail server.
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An engineer's emergency kit business card
NEW! You can now buy a version of this board! (Read more .) Circuit board business cards have been done . But since circuit boards ...
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Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs)
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
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Master Keys
Earlier this month, a retired New York City locksmith was selling a set of “master keys” on eBay: Three of the five are standard issue for members of the FDNY, and the set had a metal dog tag that was embossed with an FDNY lieutenant’s shield number, 6896. The keys include the all-purpose “1620,” a master firefighter…
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Editing Code in Emacs
When you write code, you want to focus on the code, not on the text of the code. This means a) you have to have a good text editing setup, and b) you need to have a muscle-memory level instinct for using that setup. The second comes with practice and with consistency (i.e. not changing your config too much too…
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Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (2005)
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
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I made a terminal pager
A writeup on implementing my own terminal viewport component in Go, which is used in my Terminal pager robinovitch61/lore and in my Kubernetes log viewer terminal application robinovitch61/kl.
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
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Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens…
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Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file
Range Requests Are All You Need