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A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity
Throughout my career, though I’ve managed to be productive in aggregate, I’ve always sought to be more consistent in my productivity. How productive I am at a given moment seems driven …
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 521 posts.
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Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
Tips anyone can use to level up their web automation and web scraping game
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Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
Blake Mealey's digital garden.
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Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
The code for this post is at my Github repository: github.com/arxanas/detect-recruiter-spam. However, I have not included my pre-trained model, since it cont...
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A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers
Most people who know me well know I really like apples. I'm a big fan for a lot of reasons- taste, texture, the fact that they're a symbol of my favorite season, the sheer quantity of accessible food that can grow on a single tree, et cetera. Last year, I decided I wanted to make some homemade apple cider. I bought a…
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
The Top Shelf Principle | Mo — Previously built Standard Note...
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Durable Objects now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
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Switching to Windows
Around 2015, I started to realize that I was no longer part of Apple's target audience. I've since found that Windows, and the devices available on the Windows side, from gaming laptops to convertibles to custom-built PCs, are just a better match for my requirements.
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Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep
For sqlite-utils issue 250 I needed to locate some test CSV files that start with a UTF-8 BOM.
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Getting the best out of OpenSCAD
A write-up of how I use OpenSCAD to produce designs for manufacturing, and how I post-process the output to get the best results.
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A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem
I presented this project at BangBangCon West 2020, but never got around to publish a blog post about it. A 10 minute talk is not enough to cover some technical aspects, and since I’m starting to forget them, it’s about time to write things down.
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Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
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Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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Hypertext Tools from the 80s
The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.
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Building My Own Yahoo Pipes
Pipes has been dead since 2015 or so, but I used it for a long time and it was essential to my daily news intake, so I’ve been building a personal ...
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PSD is not my favourite file format
This programmer does not like the PSD File Format:
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Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
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New GitHub themes for VS Code
New GitHub Light Default, GitHub Dark Default and GitHub Dark Dimmed themes matching the official github.com themes are now available in VS Code. To start using the new themes, go…
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Writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch
In the aftermath of my previous blog post about using Nextjournal's clojure-mode for better highlighting, I tried optimizing the JS output and got a look at the internals of CodeMirror 6 . I realized that writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch wasn't that hard if you had the right tools at hand:
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Stop mocking your system
Yes, mocking has a mostly negative meaning! Only this - to imitate (someone or something) closely - doesn't feel negative.
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Switching to the i3 window manager
After using the awesome window manager for 10 years, I have switched to i3, another tiling window manager with a different philosophy.