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Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool
Tools do their job then get out of the way.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Pause/unpause any X11 application
Many desktop oriented operating systems try to provide various usability improvements and features, like quite useful Expose or Dashboard in Mac OS X or useless Tiles concept in recent editions of …
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Cooklang – Managing Recipes in Git
A plain-text recipe format that generates shopping lists and keeps your recipes in git. Cooklang is like markdown for recipes. It lets you write recipes in a…
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Focus by Automation
I’ve invested leisure time to save time when I’m working hard, not to save keystrokes but to save mental energy for the project at hand.
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A few new things in Emacs 29
Everybody with an Emacs blogs raves about Emacs 29 these days. Things like Eglot, tree-sitter, SQL support and the like. Well, this is all nice – more than nice, brilliant! – but let’s not forget a few minor advances which are coming with Emacs 29. Let me mention a few things that I especially like.
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MS Paint Cocreator, a new AI-powered experience powered by DALL-E
UPDATE 10/23: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes Paint Cocreator is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version 11.2309.20.0 or higher
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Rescuing the Compuserve Collection
Follow a dedicated team of museum professionals and others as they race to preserve an important collection in record time.
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Rands in Repose: How to Run a 1:1
Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, processes, and other people. These people have opinions, and they share them all
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PANE: Programming with visible data
PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.
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Git Tips
Aditya Bhargava's personal blog.
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Making Software: How to make a font
Everything that goes into making a digital font, from vector outlines to hinting.
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Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js
Time-traveling in the execution history of a program during debugging enables a developer to precisely track and understand the sequence of statements and program values leading to an error. To provide this functionality to real world developers, we embarked on a two year journey to create a production quality…
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Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo
Rahul's Blog
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Automatically inferring file syntax with afl-analyze
The nice thing about the control flow instrumentation used by American Fuzzy Lop is that it allows you to do much more than just, well, f...
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A critique of package managers
n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The StandupPackage managers (for programming languages) are evil.11 The term “evil” is being used partially hyperbolic to make a point.To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers…
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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs
In the original Unix tradition, command-line options are single letters preceded by a single hyphen…The original Unix style evolved on slow ASR-33 teletypes that made terseness a virtue; thus the single-letter options.
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What I Self Host
I’ve always liked reading blogs, and have used several feed readers in the past (Feedly, for example). For a long time I was thinking it would be fun to writ...
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I Still Use Vim
The Stack Overflow blog recently published Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs? Posts about Vim vs Emacs vs IDEs are...
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Things I know about Git commits
Some of the things I've learned over a decade of Git usage, and working on writing good commit messages.
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Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme
Disclaimer: This software is not ready. I am using it and it is stable but I still have to make it feel great , if you have suggestions I would be glad to take them. I wrote a list of work that I will attempt in the future.
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PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here
PhpStorm 7.0, the new major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!This release keeps up with the latest PHP & web languages trends, providing top-notch support for
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