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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Programming Inside a Container
I have a small collection of servers, laptops and desktops. My servers were purchased and configured at different times. By design, they have different hardware and software configurations. I have processors from AMD, Intel, Ampere and Rockchip. I have a wide range of Linux distributions, both old and new. I also…
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Hacking strength: Gaining muscle with least resistance
Then, after realizing I was too weak to lift my son and his wheelchair in and out of the car, I spent just over a year gaining strength and muscle.
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Magit Is Amazing
I was reading a post about Jujutsu version control system the other day and that just made me realize how awesome is Magit!
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What I learned from others' shell scripts
I am big fan of shell scripts and so love to learn interesting stuff from other's shell scripts. Recently I came across the authy-ssh scripts which eases two-factor authentication for ssh servers. When I walk through scripts, I learned lot of cool things that I am going to share it with you.
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DIY Mail
I have another post about half-written that I will finish up and publish soon, but in the mean time I have been thinking today about something that perennially comes up in certain orange-tinted online communities: running your own mail server.
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An engineer's emergency kit business card
NEW! You can now buy a version of this board! (Read more .) Circuit board business cards have been done . But since circuit boards ...
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Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs)
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
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Master Keys
Earlier this month, a retired New York City locksmith was selling a set of “master keys” on eBay: Three of the five are standard issue for members of the FDNY, and the set had a metal dog tag that was embossed with an FDNY lieutenant’s shield number, 6896. The keys include the all-purpose “1620,” a master firefighter…
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Editing Code in Emacs
When you write code, you want to focus on the code, not on the text of the code. This means a) you have to have a good text editing setup, and b) you need to have a muscle-memory level instinct for using that setup. The second comes with practice and with consistency (i.e. not changing your config too much too…
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Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (2005)
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
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Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor
We’ve heard from a lot of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users that they like to edit code and configuration files without leaving their browser. We're now making that easier by offering a new feature: an integrated code editor.
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I made a terminal pager
A writeup on implementing my own terminal viewport component in Go, which is used in my Terminal pager robinovitch61/lore and in my Kubernetes log viewer terminal application robinovitch61/kl.
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Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
The Clojure team is proud to introduce Morse, a graphical, interactive tool for browsing and inspecting Clojure data, evolved from REBL . Morse is open source, licensed under the Apache license.
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
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Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens…
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Introducing Heroku Fork
An application is more than source code - it’s executables, generated assets, runtime environments, dependencies, configuration, running processes, backing
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Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file
Range Requests Are All You Need
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Turning off syntax highlighting
An experiment in turning off syntax highlighting and its effects on code quality and readability.
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An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.