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Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
The completed Pilo controller, before final installation. The USB capture card and Arduino Nano USB serial are soldered to the underside of the 3B+.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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ImapGoose
ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…
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Durable Objects now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
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How Cursor (AI IDE) Works
Turning LLMs into coding experts and how to take advantage of them.
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Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
We recently released a new differential testing tool, called DIFFER, for finding bugs and soundness violations in transformed programs. DIFFER combines elements from differential, regression, and fuzz testing to help users find bugs in programs that have been altered by software rewriting, debloating, and hardening…
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Switching to Windows
Around 2015, I started to realize that I was no longer part of Apple's target audience. I've since found that Windows, and the devices available on the Windows side, from gaming laptops to convertibles to custom-built PCs, are just a better match for my requirements.
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Writing and linting Python at scale
Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit 2 allows developers to efficiently build custom lint rules and perform auto-fixes for their codeba…
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A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
There's a new web search in town! I spent the start of 2024 kicking the tires on Kagi's paid search and their Orion web browser.
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Git rebase -i is not that scary
a guide to interactive rebasing.
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Printf debugging is ok
A balanced take on the printf vs debugger debate: why there is no single right answer, and how to choose the right debugging approach for the situation at hand.
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Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive
So you've got a DVD stuck in the external USB SuperDrive that connects to the MacBook Air? And you've tried hitting the magic Eject button ...
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Jonathan's Card shut down
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card
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Text-to-CAD
Introducing our machine learning model for generating CAD models from a text prompt.
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How We Handle Cap Table Information
On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch with the founders and I’m appalled we made…
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About using Nix in my development workflow
TL;DR If you don’t want to read how I’ve got to use Nix and general information about it but only focus on its use to setup a development environment, please jump to Using Nix. Even from that part, the reading can take some time as I wanted to share what I’ve learned and found useful accross two months of intensive…
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Download all of Wikipedia on your phone
Download all of Wikipedia on your phone and never be without the useful internet ever again.
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How Slack Harms Projects
Presently, real-time communication tools such as Slack are very popular in business environments. However, use of these tools creates a culture that harms projects. It negatively impacts planning a...
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Performance hacks for faster Python code
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
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The Tragedy of Given-When-Then
When all you have is a hammer, everything in the world starts to look like a nail. Twenty five years of doing analysis and helping others do analysis has shown me that there are at least three diff…
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LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
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Apple and LaTeX
Apple is apparently not eating its own dogfood when it comes to equations.
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Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August
Many software companies don't A/B test. Unfortunately, their reasons for doing so are all wet.
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Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (2012)
Unix is an alliance of loosely structured text files bound together and governed by scripts. Unix is the United Confederation of Strings:
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Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience
One of our core beliefs at Heroku is that developers do their best work when the development process is as simple, elegant, and conducive to focus and flow
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Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep
For sqlite-utils issue 250 I needed to locate some test CSV files that start with a UTF-8 BOM.