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A walk through Project Zero metrics
Posted by Ryan Schoen, Project Zerotl;drIn 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix secur...
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 546 posts.
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Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
I’m an entrepreneur and engineer focused on AI developer tools and data systems. My principal role is Founder at Kenn Software . I am also a Principal Architect at Posit , where I contribute to Python and AI strategy. I was a founder of Voltron Data , Ursa Labs (with Posit ), and DataPad. I wrote Python for Data…
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Use this kernel parameter in your kiosk
r/PBSOD is a fun subreddit all about posting pictures of broken kiosks and information/entertainment systems in public. It stands for Public Blue Screen of Death which is a Windowsism but Linux systems are posted there too. If you spend enough time scrolling, you might notice two things: There’s a scary number of…
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The art of the desk setup (2021)
What are the principles underlying the ideal desk setup? How do we balance great design with modern technology? Let’s plunge into my desk setup and my philosophy behind it.
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An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
macOS has a wonderful input mechanism where you press and hold a key on your keyboard to display the accent menu. It's easy to internalize: *long pres...
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Plans to Re-enable the GitHub Integration
Update on plans to re-enable the Github integration from Heroku Product Management and Heroku Principal Architect.
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New Clojure Project Quickstart
Clojure beginners sometimes struggle with setting up a new Clojure deps.edn project compared to setting up a lein project. This is one of the reasons I've built neil . But not only for beginners, I've been using neil myself a ton too, to add common features to existing deps.edn projects. You may think that neil is a…
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On CAD
With cheap 3D printers and PCB manufacturing services you could conceivably design something and have a physical prototype on your desk in the same week. It is quite common to see hardware projects on github that contain firmware source code, STLs for 3D printed parts, and Gerber files for PCBs. To assemble them you…
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Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the funky way
The crontab man page ("man 5 crontab" or read online) contains this bit: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (i.e., don't start with *), the command will be run when either field matches the current [...]
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Using SSH_config Match to connect to a host using multiple IP or Hostnames
My main computer is a MacBook Pro from 2017, but I have some servers laying around and one other laptop connected at home with ArchLinux installed that I use mainly for development. I connect to it remotely either directly using a SSH/Mosh + Tmux + Emacs/Vim combination, or using the pretty convenient VSCode Remote…
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Dealing with APIs, JSON and databases in org-mode
A practical Org-mode workflow for calling APIs, working with JSON responses, and querying the resulting data with databases and executable blocks.
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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
An Introduction to Statistical Process Control.
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Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground
Linked thinking and the many "tools for thought" apps that have been released over the past few years, have changed the discourse on how we take in and proce...
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Strype, a Python frame-based editor
A frame-based Python editor for the BBC micro:bit
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MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality us…
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Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Through the development of Syntorial I've formed some pretty strong opinions when it comes to synthesis. So I figured I'd share them with the world in the
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A tool for capturing captions and transcripts from online videos
I released a new project this weekend, built during the Bellingcat Hackathon (I came second!) It’s called Action Transcription and it’s a tool for caturing captions and transcripts from online …
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Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)
A set of useful tools for cultivating a culture of writing, namely the RFC, the Decision Record and Decision Log, and the Pre-mortem/Prospective and Post-mortem/Retrospective
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New Text and Array Functions for Excel
We are excited to announce fourteen new Excel functions that will allow you to easily manipulate text and arrays.
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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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My Contribution to Markdown
At long last revealed.
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Keep calm and use the runbook
Uncover the power of runbooks for IT operations and DevOps. Learn what they are and how to create them. Improve workflows and speed up incident response.