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Repurposing Hugo as a wiki
As part of a project that I’m working on, I decided to see if I could repurpose the excellent Hugo website framework (which also powers this very site) as a single-user wiki of sorts.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
I found a one-line JavaScript bug in the 24 Hour Fitness unsubscribe page and built a working alternative. The official page has since been fixed.
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Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting
Let me start by warning you: This is a long post. I want to take you through the process of writing and designing the ConvertKit sales page. As you’ll see, I had a huge amount of help from Amy Hoy. Throughout the process she gave great advice on copywriting that I’d like to share here. […]
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Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van
A free browser game that teaches real Vim motions. The van is your cursor, the town is your text. Serve every customer under par.
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Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article
About a week ago, I shared a small blog article on Hacker News.
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Mac Keyboard with Hidutil
[Update: 13-Apr-2023 with some of the background context and some things I learned from hackernews ] [Update: 18-Dec-2023] This hiduti...
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Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux
This post is the first public announcement of my new package manager and deployment tool for linux - hermes .
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Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now works with IntelliSense. v1.85 or above is needed, users may need to manually update.
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Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time
At SQLite Cloud, we are dedicated to making database management as seamless and intuitive as possible. Today, we are thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking addition to our platform - the Interactive SQLite Documentation! Now, alongside our comprehensive...
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Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info
Task Manager can be lacking as a memory tracker. Let's cover alternatives to replace it. First, let’s discuss how memory allocations work in Windows.
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Mathematical Notation in Emacs
Any combination of these tools may be chosen; Fira Code is not required to utilize prettify-symbols or pretty-mode. Similarly, the entire Fira Code font is not required to use Fira’s ligatures.
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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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Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live
The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live and Work
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Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting
A few years ago I blogged about custom tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting in emacs . I started out with highlighting certain keywords in...
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Essential elements of good documentation
A comprehensive guide on how to write good documentation for your code and libraries
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Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)
Learn the command line, version control, build systems, and correctness in NEU’s CS 4973: ISDT.
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Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
I'm somehow interested in audio production. But not it more my pet hobby, nothing that would generate decent income. This means I usually do...
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Spicing unix shell scripts
Discover various UNIX / Linux scripting tools that add GUI widgets, network sockets and add some spice to your UNIX bash shell scripts.
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LyX 2.1.0 released
Note that we have an announcements mailling list in case you want to be automatically informed about news. RSS feeds are here .
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Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
Learn about the advanced features the requests library hides under the hood. DRY base URLs, hooks, retry on failure, default timeouts and mocking.
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Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust
Nikolai Vazquez is a software engineer, designer, and musician.
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Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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How to Write a Technical Book
Are you particularly well versed in a field? Why not write a book? I've summarized the 4 main steps to writing and publishing your first technical book.
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