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Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal
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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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Jekyll 1.0 Released
Today, I'm proud to announce the release of Jekyll 1.0. There are a million goodies and fixes to enjoy, and we're (the still-active Jekyll …
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
This is a tutorial series to help you set up the Vim or Neovim text editors for efficiently writing math in LaTeX. Here is an example of what I have in mind:
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How to prioritize tasks?
Shipping products is hard. What makes it hard is that typical products involve multiple teams and multiple dependencies. Navigating these challenges is non-trivial. There are technical challenges to overcome, but those are typically not the biggest blockers. (There are enough smart people in the room to take care of…
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Writing as a form of thinking
The cost of delegating the writing process to other entities (like LLMs)
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Richer command line interfaces
This post is preceded by a description of two types of command line interfaces . The more command line-like of these two types integrates into a normal shell session ( python , telnet , bash ) instead of using the alternate screen to present a fullscreen text user interface ( top , vim , emacs ). Sometimes programs…
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Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools
If you’ve ever needed to do basic statistical calculations for an A/B test, your options traditionally have been:
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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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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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Why TDD isn't crap
After my recent vitriol about unit testing, a couple of people sent me Why TDD is Crap as a thorough debunking of TDD and unit testing. As someone very interested in software correctness, I ended up writing a debunking of his debunking. Transcriptions will be in quotes, my responses below. Some important notes: From…
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Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
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Using computers more freely and safely
The most important step is the first one. Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times. We built lots of different houses and learned from each other's failures. Gravitating away from monopolies is a way everyone can help improve software, regardless of our abilities or needs.
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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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Malleable computing, Emacs, and you
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
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Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?
Fixing problems that shouldn't exist
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The Compact Calendar 2023-2024
The Compact Calendar presents days as a continuous candy bar of time. Weeks are presented as a stack of available time with no gaps, making it easier to count-out days naturally as you think.
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How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too
First published Jan. 17, 2019; updated Nov. 15, 2019 Let me briefly tell my Linux story. If you're thinking about moving to Linux, and wondering how you'd do so, it might give you some pointers and inspiration. The back story My first introduction to the command line was in the 80s when I f
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
A blog, mostly about programming
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Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE
A solid text editor is a developer’s best friend. You use it constantly and it becomes like a second pair of hands. The keyboard commands you use daily become so engrained in your muscle memory that you stop thinking about them entirely.
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