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Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
Type, see, tweak, repeat! Instant SQL is now in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI. Bend reality with SQL superpowers to get real-time query results as you type. | Reading time: 8 min read
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Understanding the Git Workflow
If you don't understand the motivation behind Git's design, you're in for a world of hurt. With enough flags you can force Git to act the way you think it should instead of the way it wants to. But that's like using a screwdriver like a
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Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY
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I see a future in jj
In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I…
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Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
git branches: intuition & reality
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Excel is pretty dang cool
It's like discovering a treasure chest under my kitchen sink
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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.
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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
A major update on a solid foundation
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Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep , that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for Linux, Mac and Windows) and written in Rust .
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Linux utils that you might not know
I’ve used Linux as my primary operating system for well over ten years, yet I still stumble upon things that are completely unknown to me. For example...
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A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.
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How and Why to Log Your Bash History
An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
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SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
Bounce through the network with SSH tunnels and proxies. Take your remote system administration skills to the next level with our practical SSH examples.
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How to Think
Read this article to discover how chess is used to teach people how to think. "It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at."
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The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
For today I only have a very short tip – or maybe let’s call it an anecdote. (This is not because I didn’t have time for writing last week. Quite the opposite – I’ve been working very hard on one of the projects I mentioned in my 2023 planning post . I think I’ll be able to share some details next week.)
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Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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A page with no code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Effectively Using Matplotlib
Matplotlib is a valuable but misunderstood foundation of the python data science stack.
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Scrape like the big boys
What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
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1Password Secrets Automation
Secure, orchestrate, and manage your company’s infrastructure secrets with 1Password Secrets Automation.
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Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.
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A new Light Table experience
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
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Why LSP?
LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There's a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:
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What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software
Here's the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io. Hardware Since 2017, Healthchecks.io runs on dedicated servers at Hetzner. The current lineup is: HAProxy servers: 4x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)Web servers: 3x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)PostgreSQL servers: 2x…
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Warp is now open-source
Warp is now open-source, and the community can participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz, our cloud agent orchestration platform.