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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Minimum Viable Blog
A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.
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Hacking IKEA Furniture
When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …
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Bad NEWS, Emacs
Post by Eshel Yaron about changes for the worse in Emacs 30 registers feature
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My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
A Home Assistant Love Story
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Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset
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Goodbye IFTTT
On switching off of IFTTT to self-hosted and on-device automation tools
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Rack-mount hydroponics
how to grow plants in a server rack
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TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.
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How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python
a kind reader reached out about all of my iphone alarms and asked how specifically did I run OCR on my mac. I’m not one to gatekeep, so here’s how you can get yourself a nice local ocr ‘service’ that works in the terminal/CLI/python and costs 0 dollars:
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Taxonomy of Procrastination
There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head
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Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But...
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Problem solving with Unix commands
I am starting to realize that the Unix command-line toolbox can fix absolutely any problem related to text wrangling. Let me tell you about a problem I had, and how I used some Unix command-line utilities to solve it.
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Cold Email Handbook
Learn how to master cold email outreach from 0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale.
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Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done
Modern mobile devices contain a myriad of distractions and addictive platforms. My vices are Twitter and TikTok.
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Self-contained Python scripts with uv
You can add uv into the shebang line for a Python script to make it a self-contained executable.
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Fooling myself to work
We can't always be at the mercy of our motivation. I've some tricks how to fool myself into work, every single day. I'm quite productive thanks to these tricks. They will work for you too. So here they are...
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I prefer rST to Markdown
I will never stop dying on this hill
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How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
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Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done
Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home...
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A Good Vimrc
There are tons of tutorials such as this one on the internet that contain all kinds of awesome hacks to make your Vim better, but the absolute worst way to make your environment better is to just copy it wholesale from others.
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A better build system for OCaml
A “build system” is one of the most important tools in a developer’s toolbox. Roughly, it figures out how to create runnable programs from a bunch of differe...