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Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 522 posts.
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Making ASCII Art in Vim
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don't use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art!
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All I wanted was a custom domain email
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
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The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
Learn how to set up a working Zettelkasten in Obsidian: note types, vault structure, MOCs, and how AI handles the maintenance that kills most systems.
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SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog
Emacs provides four useful status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line), but each imposes different, inconsistent limits on multi-line layout, al...
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It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
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Emacs Is a Lispboard
What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal…
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Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools.
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Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
Bringing back mid-2000s Video conferencing in Apple iChat
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PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services
Discover how Postgres managed by ClickHouse compares to its peers in a reproducible, open benchmark.
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Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
Read this Tcl/Tk hands-up/primer to find out how the open-source Command Tool Language toolkit can help you develop cross-plaform tools for Windows, Linux, macOS and even Android.
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NanoClaw Adopts OneCLI Agent Vault
Every NanoClaw agent will access external services through OneCLI's Agent Vault, a gateway that handles credential injection, access policies, and approvals so agents never hold raw API keys.
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Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
By Robert Smith mine is a brand new IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp, built from the ground up with one purpose: To make Coalton and Common Lisp easier and more accessible to the programming world. TL;DR? Go to mine's homepage with downloads for Windows/macOS/Linux. mine is a complete, single-download application that…
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Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort
In my previous blog post I talked about how I bought a Blu-ray drive and a couple of M-Discs to use it for long-term archival backups.
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The Warp Agent CLI
The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows.
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Malleable software = solid bases and custom code
In 2019 I bet on the no-code revolution. That bet aged so-so. Here is the new one.
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Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI
Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.
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Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
A proposal for a standard /install.md file that provides LLM-executable installation instructions.
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Reinventing the pull request
We have significantly improved how code reviews work in Lubeno. We think code review should do more than catch bugs, it should also help teams reduce comprehension debt. In this post, I want to explain how that idea shaped our recent work on code review in Lubeno.
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Sublime Text Build 4213
Sublime Text now ships with Python 3.14 and Python 3.3. Python 3.3 is disabled by default and will be removed in a future version. If you're experiencing plugin compatibility issues you can re-enable 3.3 using the setting "disable_plugin_host_3.3": false .
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I quit editing photos
Editing photos as I press the shutter.
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TextEdit vs. Pages
Allison Sheridan is right when she says TextEdit can usually do the job. But I'm sticking with Pages anyway.
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100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”
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A curmudgeon tries a language server
I write code roughly the same way I did ten years ago 1 1 Well, this was true when I started drafting this article. I have since adopted robots to do much more of the actual typing of code, unless it’s a project where (a) I care about code quality, or (b) I try to learn something. : I make edits in my text editor, I…
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I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning. I've tried to find something for this use …
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Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages
I share what I know.
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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.
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Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer
Like some of you, we have several kitchen appliances with integrated digital timers.