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Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
I estimated that I had used my mac for approximately 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, for 7 years straight, for a total for whopping 16800 hours. I have written the first versions of most of the software components of my startup using this computer. And all this time, this machine worked without a…
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Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case …
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3D modeling with paper
Exploring the process of designing and assembling 3D models from paper.
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The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)
Why Pi-hole, the Raspberry Pi DNS sinkhole, is worth running at home to block trackers, ads, and analytics endpoints across every device on the network.
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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system ...
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My free-software photography workflow
In this article I present a step-by-step walkthrough of my photography workflow. I won't go through all the details of every piece of software I mention, they have their own manuals and documentation for that, I will highlight the operations I do. My main goals are: Full ownership of all …
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Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)
I got tired of attempting to get shell scripts to produce valid JSON. You’ve likely seen something like this before: echo '{
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
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A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
In my first decade writing Makefiles, I developed the bad habit of liberally using GNU Make’s extensions. I didn’t know the line between GNU Make and the portable features guaranteed by POSIX. Usually it didn’t matter much, but it would become an annoyance when building on non-Linux systems, such as on the various…
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Modern CSV version 2
And I think you’ll love it. I focused on several areas: Improved UI and user experience Faster performance Useful features Updated documentation For Mac users, Native Apple Silicon (ARM – M1, M2) compatibility If that’s all you need to know, you can buy a license here. Or if you already have a version 1 license, you…
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Making MCP cheaper via CLI
I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)
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How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
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Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes.
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Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
Sublime Text 3, Build 3124, is out now. Downloads and the full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
[ Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.]
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SymPy makes math fun again
An introduction into symbolic computations in Python. Don't worry, it's much simpler than it sounds. It's about making Python do your math for you with very little investment in the technology.
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