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XMLUI
In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on …
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Upspin – Another option for file sharing
Posted by Andrew Gerrand, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Eduardo Pinheiro and Dave Presotto, Google Software Engineers Existing mechanisms for fil...
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The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
At Mozilla we know that developers are the cornerstone of the Web, that’s why we actively push standards and continue to build great tools to make it eas
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Understanding Awk
Learn the basics of Awk, a powerful text processing tool, in this informative article. Discover how to use Awk to manipulate and analyze data, calc...
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Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
I love spreadsheets. Spreadsheet programs like Microsoft’s Excel, Apple’s Numbers and Google Sheets are the secret heroes of our civilization.
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Windows for Linux Nerds
A guide describing what I learned about Windows and the Windows kernel in my first week at Microsoft.
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You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the age of 18 (or a…
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Your hex editor should color-code bytes
every time i do, i feel bad for the poor person having to use it (especially if that person is me!). a plain list of bytes makes it hard to notice interesting things in the data. go ahead, try to find the single c0 in these bytes:
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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
This is now a thing! Here is the follow-up post, containing the details. Join the Kickstarter here! Even better news, this is now not just a thing, but an actual physical product! Please check out LidLayer.com Preface I’ve always liked the idea of putting stickers on my MacBook Pro, but have always avoided it for two…
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My Self-Hosting Setup
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
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Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
I recently got some cheap microwave motion sensors, mostly because I was wondering how China managed to make a radar for under a dollar:
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Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
Postgres Explain Visualizer (Pev) is a tool I wrote to make EXPLAIN output easier to grok. It creates a graphical representation of the query plan.
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How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.
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Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.
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Git Is Simpler Than You Think
Git Is Simpler Than You Think It was about one year ago that we switched to Git. Previously, we used Subversion, through the Mac app Versions, which (rightly) holds an Apple Design Award. I made the...
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
How do you transfer files off an Apple laptop from 1994? It's harder than it sounds!
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Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous…
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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started
A collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I'd been told a few years ago, based on what I've learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.
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Learn Vim Progressively
tl;dr : You want to teach yourself vim (the best text editor known to human kind) in the fastest way possible. This is my way of doing it. You start by learning the minimal to survive, then you integrate all the tricks slowly.
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Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboards…
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.
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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
Please note that after careful consideration, we have made the decision to end the Amazon Honeycode beta service, effective February 29, 2024. VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I […]
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A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
We continue our walk on the path leading to Vim mastery by reviewing crazy Vim functionalities which will increase even more your productivity.
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Blur Tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
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