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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Adding tests when you don't have time to
Here's a recipe you can follow when you want to add tests on Legacy Code, but you don't have much ti
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Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
External Links Yuki Subs Guides has a master list of guides of all you need to know about anime encoding. Also, go visit my MPC-HC + MadVR, mpv, and SVP 4 setup guide! Table of Contents x265 Settin…
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Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos
Turborepo 1.2 introduces improved task filtering, artifact signing and integrity, human-readable and JSON dry runs, and more!
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Technology Preview for secure value recovery
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Technologies like p...
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Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.
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How to overcome resistance to work
Even if your approach to work is excellent and you are self-disciplined, from time to time, a nasty task will appear. Task that you will feel extreme resistance to, which will cause you to procrastinate. However, with the right approach, you can get cr...
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Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
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I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
I started using Emacs' OrgMode to log my days.
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Interactive Docs with Markdoc
Markdoc delivers a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience. It enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.
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Grafana 2.0 Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor
So cheap I bought three
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Emacs: Mastering Eshell
Emacs has a shell written entirely in Emacs Lisp. Here's how you master Eshell, a versatile and powerful shell capable of supplanting bash or zsh as your daily driver.
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Upsource: A Platform
Last week at JetBrains Day we talked a little bit about Upsource, a new platform we have been working on. In this post, we’d like to give you a bit of a deeper dive into it.For the past year or mo
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Simplify
I used to be a slave to my startups. If I wasn't working, I had a perpetual feeling of guilt that I should be working. I had a revelation one day when I realized I didn't have to read everything I found on the Internet.
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Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode
We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...
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The Software Developer's Sketchbook
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Get ready for medium data
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The End of Finale
Updates 07/23/2026 @ 5:00PM ET: The Finale to Dorico crossgrade is no longer available from the Finale eStore. Please head […]
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The Orange Pi 5 Plus
The launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 was a bit… underwhelming, to be honest. Part of that is because the Raspberry Pi Foundation favors incremental improvement ...
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We have an epidemic of bad posture
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
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Why public chats are better than direct messages
Open team communication means fewer distractions and more shared context. Why we default to public channels over DMs, and why it isn't just noise.
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JPEG-XL vs. AVIF and Others: 27 Images Compared
The current debate surrounding AVIF versus JPEG XL needs some third-party quantitative data to support arguments on either side. I've compiled a dataset of 27 high-resolution photographic images to compare performance across them all at a wide fidelity range.
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Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets
2019 update: Wow, people are still reading this! I wrote this 6 years ago. I’m going to leave it unedited + add some new thoughts. With the benefit of hindsight, I think… thinking about productivity apps is a sort of proxy approach to thinking about productivity itself. I never did…
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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
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An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales
How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. My search for the perfect pricing model resulted in an additional $50,000 (a 170% increase) in revenue. Here's how.