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JSON Resume – 5th Birthday and New Features
5th birthday and new features, from the JSON Resume blog.
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How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
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Linux commands for advanced hardware and system info
Sometimes you need info about hardware, and you probably lost your invoice, spec list or a password to a store website. Maybe you did an upgrade and this info isn't accurate anymore. It's an easy case for home users, but what to do is you have many machines
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The idea maze of personal logging (2016)
In another post, I laid out my reasons for building a personal logging system. Here, I’ll go into the strategy and tactics issues.
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“Compiling” Music
Text input (LilyPond – Music notation for everyone)
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How to block the DiggBar
Digg now uses something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service, and which frames the content of the site they’re linking to. Here’s how to block it.
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Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink
A dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
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It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
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The difference between note-taking and note-making
Note-taking is fast, uses the original author's language, and feels easier. Note-making is slower, more involved, and uses your own language.
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Timeline - A JS Library For Beautiful Timelines That Are Easy & Intuitive To Use
Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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Why to use ‘python -m pip’
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it: I learned sometime ago that we should be doing `python -m pip install ...` instead of simply `pip install ...` but now I can'
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OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly
We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up
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The slow march of progress in programming language tooling
Discover how programming language tooling has evolved over time and why newer languages like Go and Rust have gained popularity due to their compre...
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All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
Welcome to the 2030s.
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I love my Amazon Workspace
Early last year my colleague Steve Mueller stopped by my office to tell me about an internal pilot program that he thought would be of interest to me. He explained that they were getting ready to run Amazon WorkSpaces on the Amazon network and offered to get me on the waiting list. Of course, being […]
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How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
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How bad is the Windows command line really?
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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IntelliJ IDEA 12 Wins Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013
We are excited to announce that a few days ago IntelliJ IDEA 12 was named the winner of the Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013, an annual award run by Dr. Dobbs to showcase the best IDEs and coding tool