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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications
In this short blog series, I will show you how to get up to speed with a Qt project using Visual Studio Code in more detail.
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Unquantified
The only real valuable thing is intuition. – Albert Einstein A year ago I got rid of my scale, a simple act that turned out to be the catalyst for a year’s worth of quiet introspection and experimentation in removing quantification from my life. A year later I’m quantifiably more ignorant about myself than I have been…
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My Experience with Nix on OS X
Some time ago, I’ve moved this jekyll-based blog from GitHub Pages to a self-hosted NixOS server. A few weeks ago, I’ve also moved some parts of my local OS X environment from homebrew over to nix.
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How we test the TeamCity UI
Developing a working piece of software is difficult. Just like building an airplane, it requires talented people, working components, and a testing framework. No plane leaves the hangar before everyth
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I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
A place to play around with technology and make it easy and fun
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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.
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NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google
NayuOS is a Free and Open Source operating system, designed for developers. It is based on Chromium OS and is intended to run on Chromebook devices.
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Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Starting today, if you use Google Apps for Work or Edu, you can schedule meetings from anywhere with "Find a time" in Google Calendar for Android.
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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
My life is not a math Olympiad
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Open Beta of Texpad 1.8, macOS LaTeX editor with integrated realtime typesetting
LaTeX editor for macOS, iOS and Windows with syntax highlighting, multi-file support and integrated PDF (formerly called Texpad)
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Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
The top programs that have saved HN 100+ hours.
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Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs Railway vs Render
We benchmarked latency across 5 cloud providers from 6 global locations over 2 weeks. Cloudflare Workers averaged 182ms, Fly.io 61ms (warm), Railway 381ms, Koyeb 539ms, and Render 451ms. Full timing breakdowns included.
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A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)
Last summer I spent a lot of time with Typst (at that point v0.11) and Pandoc, working on a flexible and reusable workflow to typeset markdown-formatted articles to PDF. I designed a Pandoc template for Typst that would do nice things with layout and typography, and I posted about that here .
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Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter
We’re happy to announce the first release of Topiary, a formatter for many languages that leverages Tree-sitter.
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The Best Tools for UI Hacking (not jsFiddle)
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Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications
Here at Skylight, we love all things open source [http://www.tilde.io/about-us/#open-source]. We're thrilled to show you just how much we love it with some exciting news: Starting today, we're offering free Skylight accounts [https://www.skylight.io/oss] to all open source
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Build your own Terminal using Qt
I'm a huge fan of Unix as an IDE and so the terminal is the core of my computational environment: I run everything from my development tools and text editor to my chat apps and email. There are a variety of terminals out there with their own set of pros and cons, but here we'll find out how to build our own terminal…
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Curl will now output JSON
This is not a command line option of the week post, but I feel a need to tell you a little about our brand new addition! --write-out [format] This option takes a format string in which there are a number of different "variables" available that let's a user output information from the previous transfer. For … Continue…
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The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
The Top Shelf Principle | Mo — Previously built Standard Note...
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Python Generated Sequence Diagrams
Understanding a system or software architecture simply, truly, absolutely, undoubtedly requires an occasional sequence diagram. I left ...
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Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z shell
Whenever we look at the zsh manual we wonder why there are no examples or those simply things in (shell) life. The zsh contains many features, but there was no manpage with some examples (like procmailex(5)). That’s why we wrote this manpage.
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The Hyperbezier Pen Tool
Introduction
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Melrōse, a language to program and play music (2021)
Melrōse is both a language and a tool to create and listen to music interactively, The language uses musical primitives (note, sequence, chord) and many functions (map, group, transpose) that can be used to create more complex patterns, loops and tracks. Melrōse uses MIDI output to produce sound by any (hard or…
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Making progress on side projects with content-driven development
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line.