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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 391 posts.
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Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
Emacs now has a builtin cheat sheet for a large swathe of common elisp functions. If you can't remember exactly how to do something, then this is a great place to look for it first.
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Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
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Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work
On development teams, balancing priorities while keeping focus is hard. Without an intentional approach you can quickly find your team submerged in a lot of different work, hurting progress on your most important goals. But the real world is messy. Prioritization is hard. Work comes in many shapes and sizes. Unplanned…
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Using Ansible and Nomad for a homelab (part 1)
How I migrated my Chef homelab to Ansible+Nomad
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Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing
Edit: Updated with notes about revealing your main gmail address and deliverability, after this HN discussion
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Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
I'll never forget when I bought the first 5K Retina iMac. Almost as soon as I ripped it out of the box, I booted it while holding down Command-F2, assuming it…
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Bad Emacs Advice
Most Emacs advice you'll find on the internet is largely good, and will improve your Emacs abilities, but people do occasionally share outright bad advice that harms your learning.
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Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
Tiddlywiki is a great tool, but because it runs in the browser, it has only limited access to the filesystem to save changes. This has led to dozens of tools called "savers" that work with Tiddlywiki to save it. These span the gamut, including full fledged desktop apps (most notably TiddlyDesktop ), browser…
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Falling for Kubernetes
I default to bare metal where I can. But recently I had to adopt a more complicated server management solution. And after a couple months of building for kubernetes, I must admit I'm falling for it more every day.
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Ventura Issues
I’m more surprised by the nature of many of these issues, by how ridiculous they are compared with the sheer age and supposed maturity of a 20+ year-old operating system.
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How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone
Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.
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A few things to try with DALL·E
Lighting, perspective, variation chaining, and other tricks to try with DALL·E.
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
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Downpour: A game making tool for phones
Today I announce a new project! This is the big thing I have been working on since leaving Niantic, and I am very excited about it. It is a game making tool for phones, called Downpour. Here is what it currently looks like: The utopian vision for the project is
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Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)
Background In 2015 I worked as a consultant at a large company in Lund. My position was with the build team and one of our responsibilities...
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How do you visualize code?
The other day I was reading about the development of personal computers and the desktop GUI, and I was thinking about how comfortable we all have become with the analogy of the “desktop” for our personal computers. We place files in folders and keep them on our desktops. There’s a lot of physical action going on…
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Why Emacs has buffers
Emacs's buffers are so much more than their name implies. They're not just a vessel for you to read or write from. Buffers in Emacs host network processes, shells, and transient data. They're also a key part to understanding why Elisp is designed the way it is.
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Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords
Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and…
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It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker
Yesterday André Costa emailed me about his new website, rpilocator. It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries. In his own words: This database was created out of frustration trying to locate a Raspberry Pi…
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I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
I started using Emacs' OrgMode to log my days.
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Emacs: Mastering Eshell
Emacs has a shell written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Here's how you master Eshell, a versatile and powerful shell capable of supplanting bash or zsh as your daily driver.
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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
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How to present backend demos
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Vim After 15 Years (2017)
My earlier posts about using Vim were well received and it's about time for an update. I've been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here's a snapshot of my current state.
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
BYOPM is a self hosted portable Password Manager implementation based on BitWarden and Raspberry PI Zero.
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Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
<img src="https://endler.dev/2022/zer…