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Don't use Git rebase
You love rebasing, right? Rewriting history might be appealing, but there are good reasons not to.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 334 posts.
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Who moved my cheese, 1Password?
For the impatient, feel free to skip to the TL;DR summary.
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Changes to Google Scholar
If you thought Google Scholar had about twenty different screens, you'd be half right. We have just made it easier to find your way around ...
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Chrome 59 stable released
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 59 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ov...
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The idea maze of personal logging (2016)
In another post, I laid out my reasons for building a personal logging system. Here, I’ll go into the strategy and tactics issues.
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Reverse Engineering an Eclipse Plugin
Introduction Firstly I want to note I’m not a security researcher, ethical hacker or at all competent at reverse engineering. I’m currently working as a Java developer but I’ve al…
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Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors
I should start by saying that yes, I’ve used the word processor you’re about to mention. I’ve tried them all. From yWriter and Scrivener, to Hank’s Writer and OpenOffice, to FocusWriter and Page 4. I’ve probably tried writing apps that you’ve never heard of. I’m the guy in the middle of the Venn diagram […]
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Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 3 devices tend to overheat when they run prolonged heavy loads. When the processor’s internal temperature approaches 85 degrees Celsius, it protects itself by downclocking or shutting down completely. This can adversely affect performance of AI models.
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Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly
CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design. It’s a flexible, simple design standard that can be used across all browsers and devices. That's why we built CSS Grid Inspector. We’ve been ...
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Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy
I’ve been involved with PyCon India since the first edition of the conference in 2009 . This year, I was invited to give the keynote at the 2017 edition of the event in Delhi. This post is about some personal experiences preparing the speech and making the slides.
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New Teams Features
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Incremental Backups Using GNU Tar and S3
How to take snapshots of a directory and send to them as backups to S3 using Linux tools
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Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up
The personal website of Mark Hanford Nichols.
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Pixelmator Pro released
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.
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History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)
In my study of keyboarding in the past 20 years, i've noticed that the choices of many shortcuts in many apps are adopted to the many aspects of the keyboard hardware of the time in use by the community. Emacs's keybinding is not simply based on the first letter of commands, but the QWERTY layout's key positions have…
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Set up a malware analysis lab with VirtualBox, INetSim and Burp
In this post we will set up a virtual lab for malware analysis. We’ll create an isolated virtual network separated from the host OS and from the Internet, in which we’ll setup two victim virtual machines (Ubuntu and Windows 7) as well as an analysis server to mimic common Internet services like HTTP or DNS. Then…
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Programmers Should Automate More
Last week, I created a small script to aid my workflow which left me wondering why I didn't make it earlier. It adds an option in [Finder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finder_\(software\))'s context menu to start a static web server in any folder which makes it easier to preview static websites. Technically, it's…
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Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available
Today we are proud to announce that Heroku CI, a low-configuration test runner for unit and browser testing that is tightly integrated with Heroku...
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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…
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Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler
A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
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What's wrong with the default build tool for Scala
SBT is the default build tool for the Scala programming community: you can build Scala using other tools, but the vast majority of the community uses SBT. Despite that, nobody seems to like SBT: people say it's confusing, complicated, and opaque. This post will deeply analyze what exactly it is about SBT that people…
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The Power of Tmux Hooks
The default tmux prefix key is Ctrl - b , for the remainder of this article, we will refer to the prefix key as prefix .
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Sysdig Inspect: A GUI for System Call Analysis
Sysdig Inspect is a powerful interface for container troubleshooting and security investigation that uses sysdig capture files for local analysis
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The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing…
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Getting started with vim
Luca Pette's website
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Mathematical Notation in Emacs
Any combination of these tools may be chosen; Fira Code is not required to utilize prettify-symbols or pretty-mode. Similarly, the entire Fira Code font is not required to use Fira’s ligatures.
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Untangling Jenkins
Eliminate secrets sprawl and automate credential rotation across hybrid and multicloud environments with centralized, enterprise-grade secrets management.