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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Bookdown – Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats.
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Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)
Easily create Markdown tables by copying data from Excel or Google Sheets and pasting it into the text box below using Ctrl+V. Alternatively, as a new feature, paste a Markdown table to convert it to Excel/Google Sheets format. The result is automatically copied to your clipboard and ready to use. Error: This tool…
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Making Slides
I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you…
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Take Advantage of Git Rebase
Tap into the Git rebase features to improve your workflow.
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Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter which makes the life of developers easier by automatically formatting your javascript files for you. This post should help you understand everything you need to know about using prettier in a project.
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An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK
Emerge Tools analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK.
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Claude Computer Use – Is Vision the Ultimate API?
A deep dive into Anthropic’s new Computer Use API.
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De-Clouding: Music
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]
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Virtualizing development environments in 2023
The limits of two modern virtualization methods: containers and virtual machines.
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What's in a Build Tool?
A "Build tool" is a catch-all term that refers to anything that is needed to get a piece of software set up, but isn't needed after that. Different programming communities have a wealth of different tools: some use stalwarts like make , some use loose collections of .sh scripts, some use XML-based tools like Maven or…
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GNU ed ate my homework
If you have ever ventured into the archives of old UNIX books and mailing lists, you will have undoubtedly come across the legend of ed. ed (pronounced /iː …
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Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram
Introducing new video messages and Telesco.pe, a video hosting for public channels.
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New GitHub themes for VS Code
New GitHub Light Default, GitHub Dark Default and GitHub Dark Dimmed themes matching the official github.com themes are now available in VS Code. To start using the new themes, go…
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Giving Haiku Beta 3 a try
Projects and Writings of Marc Carson.
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Visual Studio now available in cloud subscriptions
Professional developer tools subscription & licenses. See our Visual Studio Professional, Enterprise, Test Professional, & MSDN Platforms pricing today.
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Zsh: The last shell you will ever need
Introduction Last week, the all-knowing Mako inspired me to give zsh a shot. He started me off with a .zshrc file, and now a week later, I’ve been spreading the word to as many people as I ca…
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Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
Bringing back mid-2000s Video conferencing in Apple iChat
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Squarespace Announces Local Development Server
Today, we’re announcing a new developer tool called the Squarespace Local Development Server . With it, developers can preview changes to template code locally (on their computer) before pushing them to a live website.
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My Common Git Workflow
A recent post [http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/still-hatin-on-git-now-with-added-actual-reasons/] that was highly ranked on Hacker News complained about common git workflows causing him serious pain. While I won't get into the merit of his user experience complaints, I do
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