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To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 381 posts.
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Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka
Seven years ago I started writing about my adventures with Clojure. I started using Octopress back then and was still using it until today. Octopress worked great for my blogging purposes and I'm grateful that it existed. However, in recent years I became frustrated with the experience of using it, which is probably…
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We deserve better than Confluence and Notion
If you ever were in the situation of looking for a tool to manage the knowledge of your organization, chances are you ended up choosing between Notion and Confluence. A handful of other tools also exist in this field, large players like Microsoft Sharepoint or Google Drive, niche tools like …
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My Second Brain – Zettelkasten
For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes. Partly notes to help clarify my understanding of something and partly for...
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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Genius Checklist
This article by Dr Piotr Wozniak is part of SuperMemo Guru series on memory, learning, creativity, and problem solving.
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Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard
Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participants when on a…
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Kubernetes at Home with K3s
It’s been a while on the blog! I promise there will be more regular updates from now on, but maybe not always about tech… But why I know what you’re thinking - Kubernetes? On a home server? Who’d be that crazy? Well, a while ago I’d agree but a few things have changed my mind recently…
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Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results)
My approach to creating OKR for the personal life.
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Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display
with David Santiano, Deyin Mia Zhang, Xinran Azena Fan, and Yunru Casey Pan, NYU Shanghai; Barak Chamo, New York; Paolo Salvagione…
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A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
Relying on the built-in motherboard headers on server grade motherboards to reliably control fans with Linux has been a crapshoot since forever. I'm pleased to report that last summer the Corsair Commander Pro received native Linux kernel driver support in the 5.9 release.
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Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors
Measure with Music: How to Read Analog Sensors Using a PC Sound Card
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Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense
Posted on Friday 27 Aug 2021. 776 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
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Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
External Links Yuki Subs Guides has a master list of guides of all you need to know about anime encoding. Also, go visit my MPC-HC + MadVR, mpv, and SVP 4 setup guide! Table of Contents x265 Settin…
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Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find
Git ls-files is up to 5 times faster than fd or find in this benchmark, but why?
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JSON with Commas and Comments
Summary: JWCC is a minimal extension to the widely used JSON file format with (1) optional commas after the final element of arrays and objects and (2) C/C++ style comments. These two features make it more suitable for human-editable configuration files, without adding so many features that it’s incompatible with…
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To Don't – The reverse to-do list
To Don't - The reverse to-do list.
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How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner
Here's how I built an ultrasonic 3d scanner that works in the air, using off-the-shelf components.
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The joys of creating Xcode project files
Meson's Xcode backend was originally written in 2014 or so and was never complete or even sufficiently good for daily use. The main reason f...
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Version control without Git
If you have any question or suggestions about this tutorial, please file them as issues here .
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Ruby for eBook Publishing
A lot of times, people ask what’s Ruby good for apart from Rails. Ruby is great for various tasks from several different domains, and today, I would like to share how anybody can use Ruby in publishing ebooks.
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Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
Texts on this and that.