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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 589 posts.
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Linux guide for power users (2022)
A guide to help you setup your Linux work machine and configure it for a power users workflow
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Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
Automatically Update Your Profile with Fresh Content and Showcase Your Latest Work
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Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
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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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Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code
An inky color scheme for prose and code.
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Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server
I wanted to get a music streaming server running as I have in the past but with the scarcity of RasberryPi’s my I needed to try something new. I had a Samsung Galaxy S7 that had been taking up space in my junk drawer and this post is my journey to give it a new task.
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Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System
I wanted to convert some .webp images to .png on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT:
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Semantic Zoom
Making a gestural, itemized environment more fluid
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Git commands you probably do not need
Ah, git ! Love it, hate it. Few things are as central to the modern software development workflow as source-control management (SCM) tools. Although there have been and still are plenty of alternatives to git in the world of SCMs, none other seem quite as prevalent both in open-source and the enterprise.
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An unexpected benefit of unit tests
While I won’t go so far as to diagnose myself with ADD without consulting a doctor, those who know me know I can be distracted quite easily. So recently, I decided to do something a little different with a personal project I started a few weeks ago (link to come). I wrote unit tests. That may seem rather uninspired…
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Exploring EXIF
Exploratory interfaces for navigating photos
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Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
I rewrote my personal website using basic libraries and the flexibility is incredible.
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Get It Done
Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done
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No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
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Bing Jail
A short story on how my website lost all indexed pages in Bing, affecting my presence in DuckDuckGo, secret blacklisting and classification as a splog by Bing AI
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Reproducible Git Bundles
Describes how to create reproducible and deterministic one-file bundles of git repositories for use cases such as backups.
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Ruff v0.1.0
Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.
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Zig build system
As the popularity of zig cc, more developers may realize Zig is not only a programming language, but also a toolchain to help maintaining C/C++/Zig project. Today I want to discuss one vital part of this toolchain: Zig's build system, build.zig the first non-trivial Zig program for newcomers. Note: This post is based…
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Zellij New WASM Plugin System
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to develop terminal applets like UI components?
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A guide to prompting AI, for what it is worth
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
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Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
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Bad Emacs defaults
I was working on a new installation where I didn’t have this in place yet and I kept trying to update a shell function, re-sourcing it but it never changed. Turns out it was loading from a backup~ of the same file.
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FPGA Dev Boards for $150 or Less
FPGA Development Boards for Under $150 Posted today In the dynamic world of FPGA design, breaking the bank shouldn't be a prerequisite to diving into hands-on experimentation and learning. Fortunately, a plethora of FPGA development boards have emerged that are not only feature-rich, but also surprisingly affordab