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tl;dr annotated AHK scripts here. Anybody who’s spent time with me knows how much I love AutoHotKey, the flat-out best Windows automation tool in the world. Anybody’s who’s tried to use AutoHotKey knows how intimidating it can be. So to help with that, I’m sharing (almost) all of my scripts along with extensive…
My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed it. Not retaining enough is a valid problem but we’ll…
For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from…
The benefits of getting to grips with Vim are immense in terms of editing speed and maintaining your “flow” when you’re on a roll, whether writing code, poetry, or prose, but because the learning curve is so steep for a text editor, it’s very easy to retain habits from your time learning the editor that stick with you…
Here’s a straightforward benchmark. Time how long it takes to run ls ( a* ) n b in a directory with a single file named a 100 , compared to running ls | grep ( a.* ) n b . Superscripts denote string repetition and parentheses are for grouping only, so that when n is 3, we’re running ls a*a*a*b in a directory…
Blender version 2.79 incorporated functionality which enables you to fabricate 3D models by folding paper. I decided to try it out. Drawing the model I downloaded a 3D model of a goat and re-meshed…
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
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When Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) was shipped, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was still far from complete, and was known to have many
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I got a Kobo in 2016 after borrowing my mom's old one for a year before that. It probably is responsible for getting me reading again after high school. I used to be an avid reader, the sort of kid who would have to be told to put down the book and go to sleep, and who would then creep slowly to the bookshelf to pick…
This is a guest post from Josh Thompson. Enjoy. Dear New Developer, You know that there’s a chasm between your skill level and that of the mythical “senior software developer”. If…
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
I’ve pretty much always been a DVCS apologist. I know quite a few people who’ve been using DVCSes since Mercurial and Git, and a few who go back to BitKeeper , but I can totally out-hipster you. I was there for Monotone . I actually remember struggling to grok tla , and being happy that someone took the time to write…
Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb
A post-modern modal text editor.
This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
Edit and format your documents — all without touching your keyboard.
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
