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Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)
(with Abhik Roychoydhury and Aditya Kanade) Why do some people get all their papers accepted, and others do not? You may already know th...
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Git from the Bottom Up (2008)
Welcome to the world of Git. I hope this document will help to advance your understanding of this powerful content tracking system, and reveal a bit of the simplicity underlying it — however dizzying its array of options may seem from the outside.
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Pack: A new container format for compressed files
The most efficient way to pack files.
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Default disappearing messages
As the norms for how people connect have changed, much of the communication that once took place through the medium of coffee shops, bars, and parks now takes place through the medium of digital devices. One side effect of this shift from analog to digital is the conjoined shift from the ephemera...
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Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
This release switches to Qt 5 by default. The Qt UI has become quite polished by now. It will be quite familiar to users of the GTK2 UI, but it also brings a few nice-to-have improvements, such as a playlist view that is easier to navigate and sort.
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Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/03/searching-for-the-perfect-ios-markdown-writing-tool/
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The Curse of Docker
I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker.
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Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
Vim is a customizable text editor geared towards writing code. But open-ended configuration possibilities lure users into wasting time while chasing after perceived minute gains in productivity. This article describes my Vim journey, starting from heavy personal customization and ending with a renewed love for…
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OPML is underrated
The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
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New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
This summer, we have enhanced bicycle costing. Not only is overall routing improved, but `use_roads'` and `use_hills` are now much more versatile.
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Solving the Alt-Tab Problem
I've got about 20 Chrome tabs open right now, and I feel the same way you do: they're all too vital to close. Everything from articles that I'm currently
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How to Store Data on Paper?
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage . Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found.
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Start building Actions on Google
The Google Assistant brings together all of the technology and smarts we've been building for years, from the Knowledge Graph to Natural Language Processing. To be a truly successful Assistant, it should be able to connect users across the apps and services in their lives. This makes enabling an ecosystem where…
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CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
I’ve been building out a small suite of command-line tools for working with ChatGPT, GPT-4 and potentially other language models in the future. The three tools I’ve built so far …
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Hacking Digital Calipers
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
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Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a
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Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you
Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.
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Questions to ask yourself when writing tests
Talk to yourself to make sure your tests help you achieve your aims
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How I use Obsidian (2023)
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
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Analytics Without Google
Last week, I launched a personal project . A nice change that most definitely came from a desire to do something else during covid-19 lockdown. With that launch came a desire to have some level of analytics, I didn't need the full customer journey but I sure was curious how many people were using my site after I…
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Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI
We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models.
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“iCloud Backup”
Last year, I bought my 87-year-old grandfather an iPad 2 to replace the who-knows-what PC that was frustrating him constantly. He only used the PC for email and playing music, so it was a no-brainer.