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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT
I have developed a way to supercharge ChatGPT. It’s called Nova Mode and it’s an awesome custom instruction that you can paste into your ChatGPT Custom instructions (see screenshot below) in ChatGPT Settings. This modifies how ChatGPT works in all your chats, giving you much more control over how you interact with…
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Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger
This is a long-due update on porting Godot to the iPad. Shortly after my last blog post covering the development work on May 29th, Apple held its WWDC 2024 conference. I went into the conference with gusto, expecting to fully embrace all the iOS 18 APIs. I already knew
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Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps
This past summer we completed a project that spanned several months of planning and preparation - moving our source control from...
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Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code
An inky color scheme for prose and code.
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Hello P5.js Web Editor
Today we are excited to announce the official release of editor.p5js.org! The p5.js Web Editor is an online platform for learning to code…
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Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1
The Network Monitor tool has been available in Firefox since the earliest days of Firefox Dev Tools. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about page load performance and ...
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Things Markdown got wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones...
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How I’d redesign piano sheet music
How I’d redesign piano sheet music UPDATE: five years later, I’ve finally published a follow-up to this popular article. This time, I’m trying to do the same thing, but in a plain text format …
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Exploring the new .NET “dotnet” CLI
I've never much liked the whole 'dnvm' and 'dnu' and 'dnx' command line stuff ...
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I built a GPU back end for Emacs
A few months ago I became obsessed with a silly question: why does my Emacs, on a laptop with a perfectly capable GPU, draw all of its text using the…
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Vim, you complete me
Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even...
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Pelican static site generator 4.5
Pelican static site generator
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How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx
How to score a perfect 100/100 on Google PageSpeed with a Middleman static site behind Nginx.
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Let Me Ch...
That morning I woke up at 6:58, two minutes before the alarm. I lay there and waited for it to ring. And it rang. We both did our jobs. I still don’t know why I remember it in such detail. I used to forget what I’d had for dinner the night before. And now I remember the whole morning minute by minute, as if someone…
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Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
Something that always annoyed me of the current state of technology is how easy and pervasive we let tracking become. Tens of connections to 3rd parties carrying Referer and Cookies just to load an article. (We give up our users to social media websites just to show a like button that looks worse anyway in a iframe…
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Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
Learn all about Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs in Grafana 11 and Loki 3.0 without writing LogQL.
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Playing guitar tablatures in Rust
Introducing Ruxguitar, a guitar tablature player written in Rust
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The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
Having spent a couple of decades in the Linux world, I have always had an interest in Linux desktop environments and how they are themed. I would often come across a post on /r/unixporn that inspired me to try to customize the look and feel of my desktop environment. So I would install Xfce, LXQt or Sway and try to…
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CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
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Extreme Debugging
Debugging without source or symbols, alternatively, "Where there's a will there's a way"
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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
How the past of Personal Computing gives us a hint into the future of Personal Library Science