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Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
I presented this project at BangBangCon West 2020, but never got around to publish a blog post about it. A 10 minute talk is not enough to cover some technical aspects, and since I’m starting to forget them, it’s about time to write things down.
It's incomplete, but probably a reasonable place to start. If you think there's something that desperately need to be fixed then send me email and I'll look at it.
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don't use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art!
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
There are two types of programmers in the world: the practical, sensible, shell-resigned people who need to google the correct argument order for ln -s ; and those twisted, Stockholmed souls who will gleefully run their company’s entire infrastructure on 57 commands stitched together into a single-line bash script.
When you have lots of information in an Org file, it helps to narrow it down to just the topic that interests you right now. There's many ways to do that depending on what exactly you want to do. Creating an Org mode sparse tree is one of those options!
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
A quick explanation of the differences between network failures most commonly observed in day to day operatoins. And no, it's not (always) DNS.
Back when Internet Explorer was dominant, and every developer I knew installed Firefox on every family member and their dogs desktop, I remember a big selling point for convincing people to use Firefox was ‘Tabs’.
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
Final Update (September 18th): The licensing model had been updated. Read the update from our CEO Maxim Shafirov. Update 2 (September 8th): The licensing model announced previously including conditio
Build 3059 is now available. Full details, and downloads, are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
Some notes on my note taking device
Back in the day, the first thing I learnt about vi was how to get into insert mode. It was really quite essential, because without knowing how, you couldn’t actually type anything.
Jupyter presents a unique programming style where the programmer can change her code while it's running, reducing the cost of mistakes and improving the interactivity of the programming process. I discuss the benefits and limitations of this approach along with the related work.
Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.
Naming a CLI command requires deep and careful deliberation.
Learn how to set up a working Zettelkasten in Obsidian: note types, vault structure, MOCs, and how AI handles the maintenance that kills most systems.
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A story on how we leveraged Hexagonal Architecture principles to be prepared for changes in the Netflix Studio ecosystem.
