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Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
Learn about the advanced features the requests library hides under the hood. DRY base URLs, hooks, retry on failure, default timeouts and mocking.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 521 posts.
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Emacs as Email Client
Email with mu4e and offlineimap
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Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim
This article will focus on discussing why the ancient text editor 'ed' works the way it does.
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New hard drive rituals (2018)
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat your data at any time. Entire businesses are built around their…
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My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs
JetBrains, the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, offer a range of powerful IDEs for all kinds of programming languages. I would like to share my favorite shortcuts for their IDEs.
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Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications
In this short blog series, I will show you how to get up to speed with a Qt project using Visual Studio Code in more detail.
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How we test the TeamCity UI
Developing a working piece of software is difficult. Just like building an airplane, it requires talented people, working components, and a testing framework. No plane leaves the hangar before everyth
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Curl will now output JSON
This is not a command line option of the week post, but I feel a need to tell you a little about our brand new addition! --write-out [format] This option takes a format string in which there are a number of different "variables" available that let's a user output information from the previous transfer. For … Continue…
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Python Generated Sequence Diagrams
Understanding a system or software architecture simply, truly, absolutely, undoubtedly requires an occasional sequence diagram. I left ...
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The Hyperbezier Pen Tool
Introduction
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Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
The completed Pilo controller, before final installation. The USB capture card and Arduino Nano USB serial are soldered to the underside of the 3B+.
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Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool
Tools do their job then get out of the way.
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I Still Use Vim
The Stack Overflow blog recently published Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs? Posts about Vim vs Emacs vs IDEs are...
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Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A
I spent over a year researching better ways to take notes and remember what I read. Here's what I found.
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Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor
For a long time when I’ve wanted to test the latency of computers and UIs I’ve used the Is It Snappy app with my iPhone’s high speed camera to count frames between when I press a key and when the screen changes. However the problem with that is it takes a while to find the exact frames you want, which is annoying when…
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Personal OKRs for Success
How to use OKRs for personal goal setting and tracking your progress
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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GPT-3 Explorer
A power tool for experimenting with GPT-3
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Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser
We’re delighted to announce ArgumentParser, a new open-source library that makes it straightforward — even enjoyable! — to parse command-line arguments in Swift.
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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
When you have lots of information in an Org file, it helps to narrow it down to just the topic that interests you right now. There's many ways to do that depending on what exactly you want to do. Creating an Org mode sparse tree is one of those options!
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The Poetics of CLI Command Names
Naming a CLI command requires deep and careful deliberation.
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Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture
A story on how we leveraged Hexagonal Architecture principles to be prepared for changes in the Netflix Studio ecosystem.
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No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How
Paraphrasing - When, Why, and How
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Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
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Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning
In the previous post we have written code to change the amplitude of wave files. Now we’ll take a look at how we can turn a mono wave file into a stereo wave file with optional panning, and explore how this is represented internally by the WAVE file format. Channels The raw audio data inside a WAVE file consists of…
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A single character code change
Or four one liners every Java programmer should know