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Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 227 posts.
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Introducing nushell
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My Favourite Git Commit
I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime. I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git commit.
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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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Dotfile madness
My own home directory contains 25 ordinary files and 144 hidden files. The dotfiles contain data that doesn't belong to me: it belongs to the programmers whose programs decided to hijack the primary location designed as a storage for my personal files. I can't place those dotfiles anywhere else and they will appear…
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We Need Chrome No More
Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is…
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. This is what happened next.
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Why Bother with What Three Words?
I'll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard. And that annoys me. A brief primer. The world is a sphere. We can reference any point on the surface…
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Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
Having an RSS feed is a great way of allowing readers from all over the internet consume your conent. But please, make sure the entire post is in there!
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Htop Explained
Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
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Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
Up until recently, it was a pain to defend againt WPA2 brute-force attacks by using a random 63-character password (the maximum in WPA-Personal ) mode). Thanks to Android 10 and iOS 11 supporting reading WiFi passwords from a QR code, this is finally a practical defense.
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How to write idempotent Bash scripts
This blog post shows tips and tricks to write resilient and idempotent bash scripts.
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Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
Short, medium, and long form tech projects. Detailed photos and build logs with benefits for paid subscribers.
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Lesser Known Coding Fonts
In the past few months, I’ve become interested—fascinated even—by programming fonts. As programmers we look at text all day: code, logs, command outputs, monitoring tools, etc. If we’re going to be looking at text all day, we might as well make it easy and pleasant for our eyes to read that text.
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An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools
A short description and screenshot of some useful command line tools I use that aren't part of typical POSIX environment.
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Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. If you’re unproductive right now Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day: Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to…
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Open source collaborative text editors
For years now I've had this itch, trying to find the "perfect" collaborative text editor. But not just any collaborative text editor, oh no, my speciality is finding (well, at least looking for) open source real-time collaborative web-based rich text editors...
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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
This is now a thing! Here is the follow-up post, containing the details. Join the Kickstarter here! Even better news, this is now not just a thing, but an actual physical product! Please check out LidLayer.com Preface I’ve always liked the idea of putting stickers on my MacBook Pro, but have always avoided it for two…
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History and Effective Use of Vim
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can abandon pre-packaged vimrc files and use plugins more thoughtfully.
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I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
Reify: Sell More Software
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Pair Locking Your iPhone
Learn how to pair lock your iPhone to break law enforcement forensics tools and protect your data.
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