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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with my projects. As an experienced developer, ChatGPT …
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
I’ve had my days with Siri and Google Assistant. While they have the ability to control your devices, they cannot be customized and inherently rely on cloud services. In hopes of learning something new and having something cool I could use in my life, I decided I want better. The premises are simple: I want my new…
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A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
A quick explanation on how the Firefox-only map is built using the `element()` CSS function.
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Difftastic, the fantastic diff
programming, language design, and human factors
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How I code with AI on a budget/free
A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
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How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
I work from home everyday, I am susceptible to eye strain, eye pain, and dizziness. Having a working environment that’s as easy on my eyes as possible is of critical importance. I'd like to share what I've learned over the years in hopes that it can be helpful to you if you work from home, and like many, have…
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Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
Insurance for your mind.
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Cover Your Tracks
Today, we’re pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about letting users know that browser fingerprinting was...
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How to get your first 100k active users
What we learned growing Winnie’s network of parents from a small private beta to a booming national community.
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Installing every* Firefox extension
Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
neflabs.com is your first and best source for information about neflabs. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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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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Learn just a little Awk (2010)
An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.
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Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
Firefox had a baby and named it Focus! Firefox Focus is the new private browser for iOS and Android, made for those times when you just need something simp
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,
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Guide to running Llama 2 locally
How to run Llama 2 on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone.
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Say goodbye to hold music
Hold for Me helps you take your time on hold back, starting with an early preview on Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a (5G) in the U.S.
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Small programming tricks
A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.
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GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
GitHub Actions now includes built-in CI/CD. Easily automate how you build, test, and deploy your projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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Delta
From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
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Get better at Googling
10 Google search operators every developer should know: exact-match quotes, OR, minus, wildcards, site:, filetype:, number ranges, before: and after:.
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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
An infinite number of machine monkeys paint an infinite number of blog thumbnails
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Find a good available .com domain
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.