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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
I’ll be attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. If you’re attending either (or just visiting Amsterdam), drop me a line!
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
Today I learned that, since macOS High Sierra onwards, you can move a window by starting to drag anywhere on it.
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Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize your work. Lists are simple, smart, and flexible, so you can stay on top...
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Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
If you are newly working or going to school from home, the remote approach can be a big shift in how to get things done. Firefox has a number of browser ex
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Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
A quick walk through demoing how to use Gooey as the frontend for any language or application!
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Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet
Penetration testing tools cheat sheet, a high level overview / quick reference cheat sheet for penetration testing.
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I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
Summary : Turning a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA) and submitting it to 3 app stores requires about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape.
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macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
I recently got a new Macbook, and began setting up the Nix package manager to install my developer toolset. I mainly did this to try and have a working setup without installing Homebrew. Since I ran into a few issues, I wanted to briefly document what I did and why in case others wanted to try the same. Why Nix? (and…
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Inkscape Moves to GitLab
The Inkscape project has completed its planned move from launchpad using the bazaar repository system, to GitLab using the git repository system.
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Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
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Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
I am an indie iPhone developer, and I’ve been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way to work for me.
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Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
You can now use LaTeX style syntax to render math expressions within Markdown inline (using $ delimiters) or in blocks (using $$ delimiters). Writing expressions as blocks To add math…
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
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Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.
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10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
We've been waiting since April 24, 2012 for a Google Drive Linux client.
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Cursed Knowledge
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
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Building an iPod for 2022
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