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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
I've released my new iOS app, Vignette.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A
I spent over a year researching better ways to take notes and remember what I read. Here's what I found.
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Everyone should learn the slide rule (2021)
The obsolescence of the slide rule is mostly un-mourned, but as with many technological obsolescences, we have lost something valuable with its demise. The type of thinking which goes along with us…
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Getting the best out of OpenSCAD
A write-up of how I use OpenSCAD to produce designs for manufacturing, and how I post-process the output to get the best results.
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself
It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
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Chrome Remote Desktop goes mobile
Have you ever been out and about, and urgently needed to access a file that’s sitting on your home computer? Since 2011, Chrome Remote Deskt...
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Drag and Drop from Terminal
I have built up a pretty good workflow in the terminal. The main thing that I was missing until now was an easy way to drag and drop the files that I am looking at in a terminal to other apps.
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Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s …
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How fast do I talk?
I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words. As I now give lots of conference…
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Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor
For a long time when I’ve wanted to test the latency of computers and UIs I’ve used the Is It Snappy app with my iPhone’s high speed camera to count frames between when I press a key and when the screen changes. However the problem with that is it takes a while to find the exact frames you want, which is annoying when…
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Personal OKRs for Success
How to use OKRs for personal goal setting and tracking your progress
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Super easy project planning and estimation
Add tasks to your project and break them down into subtasks. The tree layout highlights the structure of your project.
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Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
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Explaining modern server monitoring stacks for self-hosting
In this article, I'm exploring four different servers monitoring setups involving Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus and Collectd.
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Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions
Automatically upload your Android Godot game to itch.io with Github Actions godot-html-export and itchio-butler-upload
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Continuous Integration Failure? Use USB Missiles
Stay up-to-date with the latest print management news, tips, and insights. Explore articles on print security, cost reduction, and sustainability.
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How to run an Arduino for years on a battery (2021)
Build an autonomous Arduino system optimized for ultra-low power consumption. How to Run an Arduino for Years on a Battery Build an autonomous Arduino.
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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GPT-3 Explorer
A power tool for experimenting with GPT-3
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Practical Makefiles, by example
The purpose of this document is to explain how to write practical makefiles for your everyday hacks and projects. I want to illustrate, how easy it is to use make for building your programs, and doing so, dispel the notion that resorting to big clunky graphical IDEs, or makefile generators such as autotools or cmake…
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April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014)
Update: APRIL FOOLS! by Kaue Silveira Here at Google, we invest heavily in development productivity research. In fact, our TDD resea...
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Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser
We’re delighted to announce ArgumentParser, a new open-source library that makes it straightforward — even enjoyable! — to parse command-line arguments in Swift.