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Changes to Google Scholar
If you thought Google Scholar had about twenty different screens, you'd be half right. We have just made it easier to find your way around ...
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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CLion – Brand New IDE for C and C++ Developers
Hello, Everyone!Today we have some great news to share with you. To make a long story short, C/C++ IDE goes public as CLion!Since the early days, JetBrains has been focused on making software
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The Heroku Hacker's Guide
I finished The Heroku Hacker's Guide, a practical book on using and understanding Heroku, out now as a PDF and paperback. Here's why I wrote it.
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Using Bun.js as a Bundler
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until toda…
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
Oscar is on the web
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Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more.
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How is LLVM tested?
This article provides an overview of the test suites that are used by LLVM project to maintain a quality of its libraries and tools on a high level.
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HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy
We are releasing HiPlot, a lightweight interactive visualization tool to help AI researchers discover correlations and patterns in high-dimensional data.
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Rails Console Tips
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with…
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Introducing FuzzDB
FuzzDB is an open source database of attack patterns, predictable resource names, regex patterns for identifying interesting server responses, and documentation resources. It's most often used testing the security of ...
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It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
The first post on this personal blog dates back to December 2012. It’s been more than a decade! As with many others, I’ve always struggled with how to setup my personal website. It is just too enticing to build it “from scratch”, which usually means using a static
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Commits are shapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
Explore Excel's bizarre date/time quirks—like “1/2”+1=45660—and how Quadratic fixes legacy issues with a modern approach to datetimes and spreadsheet logic.
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IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released
Revealing the Darker Side of Productive Coding A few weeks ago we finished the Early Access Program for the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12. We would like to thank all of you who evaluated the p
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M4 as a templating language (2020)
m4 is a macro processor, in the sense that it copies its input to the output, expanding macros as it goes
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Explainer: .DS_Store Files
Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.
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Git add -p
The Pragmatic Programmer advocates you should know your editor inside and out. So why don't you know your version control system just as well? Discover git add "patch mode" and learn how to make more concisely crafted commits leading to a cleaner git history and more friends.
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Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline
Code review on GitHub has evolved a lot since we introduced the ability to comment on an individual commit in 2008. Users today can propose a change using a pull…
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Chrome 59 stable released
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 59 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ov...
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Encrypting files with passkeys and age
Encrypting files with passkeys, using the WebAuthn prf extension and the TypeScript age implementation.
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AWS CodeCommit
We announced AWS CodeCommit last November (see New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment) at AWS re:Invent. I am happy to announce that it is now generally available and that you can start using it today. Let’s do a quick refresh on the CodeCommit feature set before taking the service for a spin. CodeCommit […]