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Some companies use an isolated network or even the complete lack of a network as a security measure to protect from unauthorized access. Working on these systems can be a struggle but it is still possible, and perhaps even more important, to use a proper version control tool like Git.
I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done
On November 6, 2023, OpenAI announced Custom GPTs. Since then, over 3 million GPTs have been created, with over 200.000 of them made publicly available.
(2016-12-18 Version 2 is now on github. It fixes one bug, makes the code style more consistent, and adds a few additional options for tracking the results.) It started with a Facebook post from my …
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
Introduction Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon...
Master the Feynman Technique: Nobel laureate's 4-step learning method to understand anything deeply through teaching, simplification, and systematic review.
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
Democratizing silicon
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
Describes how to create reproducible and deterministic one-file bundles of git repositories for use cases such as backups.
A couple of weeks ago I learnt about an interesting 3d metal printing process , from a company selling it for $100k USD, and speculated that it might be DIY-able for much less. Well I now have some promising first results.
I often want to start similar workspaces in tmux; for example I always want to tail those two log files in a pane , or I always want to start both vim and mysql in a pane, etc.
Viewing my binary file with ImHex. The pattern language pane, on the right,...
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
From Vim To IntelliJ In the beginning, a love affair For the last 10 years or so, I have been a die-hard Vim user. I was introduced to Vim…
Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want to throw the keyboard out of the window.
Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.
1Password integrates with Pwned Passwords, a feature of Have I Been Pwned that allows you to check if your passwords have been leaked on the Internet.
I’ve been learning Jujutsu a.k.a. jj , a version control system that’s compatible with git repos. It’s clicked for me in a way that git hasn’t even after many years of use.
