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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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How to unit test code that depends on time
Suppose that the logic of your program depends on time. That is, you need to keep track of when something in the past happened, and what tim...
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Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
Update: CLion Nova is now available in CLion Classic TL;DR Today, we’re announcing a free early preview of CLion, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine instead of the CLion "legacy"
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I just want to run this one Python script
So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems… Ever had a script that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic
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The death and rebirth of my home server
steen's online burrow
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Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent
A modest defense of the rodent So, Emacs and the mouse. This is an unexpectedly contentious topic, with discussions that end, at best, with careless dismissal. More often they turn into arguments with folks talking past one another. The advantages of using the mouse for common actions in Emacs are immediate and…
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Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions
Far too many developers use Git without understanding it. It's time to straighten out your thinking about what Git is, and isn't.
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Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better
Oculus Go, like all products, is the result of a series of compromises around cost, schedule, quality, and competence. It is clearly the best standalone VR platform on the market, but anyone …
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My Personal Note Taking Journey
quickly capture your thoughts, as a service
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ANSI escape codes (2019)
My team writes a lot of command line tools, and we like to assume that people aren’t using a literal VT100 (meaning: we liberally use colours, italics, and basically every other terminal feature available to us). This tends to result in strings in our code that look a little like this:
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Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
I'm driven by the belief that we must not sacrifice our humanness for technology.
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Using Gmail with Mutt
A tutorial on using gmail with mutt, a console-based email client, along with some advanced concepts such as encrypting your account password and sending emails from a different <code>From</code> address.
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How to build a circular LCD clock
In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! :D Looking at it was always a bit annoying.
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Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins
List of all the plugins I use in PyCharm and Idea.
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ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video
Step 1) Download the video from Youtube using JDownloader . The best one was the original Japanese upload, The Game Awards 2014 å‡ºå±•æ˜ åƒ ã‚¼ãƒ«ãƒ€ã®ä¼èª¬ 最新作 , which is 720p. I saved this file as zelda_720p.mp4.
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How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)
Writing a book is a time consuming process, and if you’re going to dedicate a year, or more, of your life to it, it makes sense to pick the best tool for the job. If you’re technically inclined – and if you use Emacs – then the choice is obvious.
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Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide
RayHightower.com - Tech company founder. Commercial real estate investor. Building teams, software, and companies. Located in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
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Generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem.
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Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
Discover the latest in networking and IT innovation. Stay updated with product launches, expert insights, and tutorials from UniFi’s official blog.
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Monodraw – a non-subscription, powerful ASCII art editor
Monodraw v1.6 is now available for public testing. It features a visual refresh and the ability to simultaneously edit multiple shapes of the same type.
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Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript
Taking Bret Victor's notion of connecting to your creation and turning it into a ClojureScript live game editor.
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Google Cloud Debugger: use local source, Go and Node.js support, IntelliJ plugin
Google Cloud Debugger , which lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down, now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support and debugging from more places.