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Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker : Effectively speaking, I've always been a Vim user. When I got my first shell account, I started with Vim (In the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages of `vi`, `vim` and `neovim`, I came of age somewhere in the late Jurassic): my
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I guess it makes me boring but I try to get people to use stronger passwords. People love to use the same password over and over again, o...
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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All users can now opt-in to our Threads Beta! Threads helps declutter the main room timeline by moving conversations and topics into the right panel.
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Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.
In the heart of winter, our family found joy in transforming freshly fallen snow into giant Lego-like bricks using the tops of storage bins. The children eagerly assembled these into a grand snowfort, crafting an impressive igloo with walls sturdy enough to host their snowy adventures. As dusk fell,
I’ve been using Emacs Org mode for nearly a year now. For a while I mostly just used it to take and organize notes, but over time I’ve discovered it’s an incredibly useful tool for managing projects and tasks, writing and publishing documents, keeping track of time and todo lists, and maintaining a journal. Project…
Routines aren't the only thing we need for a balanced life. Most of us spend our days switching tasks and it’s our rituals that help us get through them.
This post is an attempt to bring together my go-to open-source PDF analysis and processing tools and commands for a variety of common tasks.
If you've ever clicked on a search result only to land on a version of a site you don't prefer, Kagi's URL Redirects (also known as URL Rewrites) puts you in control by automatically rewriting search...
The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
I regularly check various open-source projects to demonstrate the abilities of the PVS-Studio static code analyzer (C, C++, C#). Now it is time for the GCC compiler to get checked. Unquestionably...
I have been exploring some new tools here and there. When I started watching Primeagen, I took a note of several tools that he was using and advocating for. One of them was tmux. What is tmux? tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What that means is you can have many terminals in one. According to tmux wiki: tmux is a…
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source
This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.
Ennui (pronounced on-wee ) is chronic boredom that involves weariness, apathy, dissatisfaction, and lack of fulfillment. Some people experience a general sense of ennui in life, whereas others experience it in a specific domain, like their hobbies or work. For example, someone might experience ennui when it comes to a…
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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