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This map is now available in app form! WiFox is available on the App Store and Google Play. Finding an open wireless connection in many airports isn't always easy, or possible, without a password (or local phone number which is stupid). The difficulty of getting online is why I asked you for and created an…
LiteCLI is written in python using the wonderful prompt-toolkit library. It is cross-platform compatible and it is tested on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
Seven real-world layout comparisons and eleven original diagrams, including two with selective TALA positioning.
This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always…
When people say “debuggers are useless and using logging and unit-tests is much better,” I suspect many of them think that debuggers can only put breakpoints on certain lines, step-step-step through the code, and check variable values. While any reasonable debugger can indeed do all of that, it’s only the tip of the…
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Why we left Medium, and how!
A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.
Comprehensive overview of existing tools, strategies and thoughts on interacting with your data
Learn the image optimisation strategies I employed to shrink the page weight on my homepage from 1.1 MB to just under 450 KB
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
Excited to share: 2 million sessions served! Here are best practices for running headless browsers (like Puppeteer) in production
Straight talk on Canadian online privacy, open-source software, PIPEDA, browser extension security, and practical tools to protect your personal data.
GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …
Pretty Diff tool can minify, beautify (pretty-print), or diff between minified and beautified code. This tool can even beautify and minify HTML.
I spent 3 years as an analyst in the reinsurance industry. During this time, I witnessed firsthand how Python is driving rapid technological change. (Goodbye, Excel!)
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
The news has just broken that Google's Authenticator App can have its codes stolen by malware. I doubt Google will ever release a fix for this issue - their 2FA app hasn't been updated since September 2017. Update! 3 months after I published this post, Google updated their app For two-and-a-half years, Google hasn't…
tl;dr: OpenAI is testing the ability to run code and use third-party plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI has announced that we’re developing plugins for ChatGPT that will extend its capabilities. [Link] Plu…
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
Today we're introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.
NeoFinder is a powerful and very fast disk cataloging tool for songs, videos, photos, all your digital documents
I spend way too much time on reddit, hacker news, twitter, feedly, coinbase, robinhood, email, etc. I’d like to spend time on things that are more meaningful - chess, digital painting, side projects, reading, video games, exercising, meditating, etc. This has been a problem for years. This post is only slightly…
